The Paul Feig modern classic is beloved by Cummings, who recognizes not only its hilarity but its groundbreaking success. What she loves about Bridesmaids, she says, is that "it's great, it's hilarious, and it's emotional, and it's about women and other women. I mean there's a love story within the movie, but it's about two women and a love story between two women. I remember being in the movie theater and seeing guys laughing at it — there were dudes in the theater! I feel like it transcended a female comedy into just a comedy, and I love that. Again, it's my dream to be called a comedian, not a female comedian, and I feel like this movie really just has totally transcended. That's what I loved about it, and it's everything that we want: it's a wedding, a wedding shower, she smashes the cookie, and they poop in the dress. It's so surprising . . . they did all these sacrilegious things that I think were just . . . it was so cool to see girls be like, 'Yeah, sh*t in the dress!' It was just cool. It was very cool that women were into desecrating all these sacred cultural institutions that we all are pressured and brainwashed to want. I love that element of it."
