Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway Bride Wars Press Conference
You two seem like you had a great time on set. Is there a particular moment during filming that will always stay with you?Kate Hudson: "We worked such long hours. I was thinking probably when we were so tired and we were on the floor with our torn up wedding dresses. That's my favorite shot in the movie. We're lying there and we kind of looked at each other, but we were there for hours. We looked at each other and we talked and we kind of at one point, I remember, were on our sides and just talking while lying on the floor. That's probably the most memorable for me because you don't get to work with girls this closely very often. I was talking with my publicist earlier about this, that we do this and it's always with a guy. We'll be sitting there with a male."
Anne Hathaway: "I was just thinking that one of the things I'm so excited about with this film is that so often in films that we've been in there's the main character and then there's the quirky best friend that you never really get to know, who comes in with a great one liner. To have two complex female characters who are best friends at the center of a movie – I don't know – I haven't really seen that before. So anytime we were in those scenes where we got to go deeper, where there wasn't that formula in place in the script and I was actually feeling something new as an actress for the first time because I'd never been in a situation like that. Kate was just there every time, listening, going deeper with me. I mean, to have one specific moment, there were so many, but to just get to return to those scenes again and again and again shouldn't be rare, but I guess it really is. I remember that and I'm really appreciative of it."
Kate Hudson: "Yeah, we did the end at like four in the morning, the wedding scene where we're both [crying], but it was so late. I remember that as a producer they're like, 'Can we get to you last?' You're like, 'Sure, we can do that. It's the last night.' So I did that whole scene where I'm going, 'No, no. Don't do this. I didn't mean to do that.' That whole scene we did at like four thirty, five in the morning and we'd been up all day. Annie was so there. I remember we were doing it and I was really at that kind of place where I was like, 'Okay, I could go right to sleep right now. I could curl up and go to bed.' We'd been fighting that day, doing so much stuff…"
Anne Hathaway: "As the characters."
Kate Hudson: "We sat there and did the scene and I look at her, she's off camera, and all of a sudden I'm starting to get a little teary-eyed. I'll admit it. And I'm looking at Annie [and she's] getting teary-eyed and I thought, 'I love being girls.' We were right there for each other and that's the movie, what it's about. There are a lot of good moments. There are some funny ones, too. Annie is the best because she's like, 'I have this idea.' I say, 'Okay, what?' She'll say her idea and everyone is standing there and she goes, 'Okay, it was a really bad idea.'"
Anne Hathaway: "'But there's something good in there. Let's pick it apart.'"
Kate Hudson: "Annie is the first one to do that. It's so great. All of a sudden it's like, 'Okay, it wasn't a good idea.' It was so funny."
When you first read the script for this what did you relate to in the character?
Anne Hathaway: "I've never really thought about my wedding and so I think that part of the reason why I was drawn to the script was because here was a girl who I had no internal relationship to and I didn't understand that concept of identifying with yourself as a bride before it had occurred to identify with yourself as a woman – the bride specific thing. But I did know what it was like because I thought of myself as an actress. I really wanted that when I was a kid, and I kind of developed that and assumed that I would develop as a person aside from that. That didn't happen and it's taken a lot of work to kind of figure out who I am and what I want aside from what it is that I kind of put in my head and be here in reality and live in the dream that I wanted and accepting that things are different and far more interesting than they were when I thought of them when I was eight. It was just accepting that and it was wonderful, but I identified with that kind of desire in the character, that process and the hunger for that process. Then the female friendship. How beautiful, powerful and scary it is to mean so much to someone. How fun it is, but also how much responsibility in the best possible way."
"I was so happy because in the script, and I hope that I'm not speaking out of turn by revealing this, but at the ending of it, we hadn't figured out that ending until just before. We always knew that there was a piece missing and we just couldn't figure it out. In a way, we were just sort of talking about it and Kate told a story and we all burst into tears because the point of the story was that as much fun as marriage hopefully is and as much as we all want to find that one person that fulfills us and not exactly have the fairy tale, but to be able to rely on that person you can't. You cannot. It's a sad, sad, sad fact, but whatever happens in your life, in the great moments, the bad moments, the unexpected moments, there's always going to be someone there refilling your wine glass, giving you a shoulder to cry on, picking you up, celebrating with you. They're with you - and that's your girlfriend. We didn't find that message in the movie until much, much later and then as soon as we did, it all made sense. And, suddenly, that's what I related to in the movie fully. That's when I fully gave into it."
