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Anna Camp opens up about reviving her Pitch Perfect puking in her new film, Bride Hard.
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Plus, she talks about how she’s had to vomit a lot in her career, and jokes, “It’s actually at the top of my resume, it says, ‘Puking for hire.'”
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Camp actually insisted on playing Betsy in the film because of her real-life friendship with costar Rebel Wilson: “We have to play besties.”
Anna Camp is a woman of many talents: She can act, sing, dance, and puke…a lot.
Fans of Pitch Perfect, which famously begins with Camp’s Aubrey profusely upchucking all over the crowd at the a cappella finals, will be, if not delighted, at least amused to know that her new film, Bride Hard, begins in much the same way.
This time, it’s her character Betsy’s bachelorette party, and she’s enjoyed the Viking strippers and cocktails a little too much. She tells her maid of honor Sam (played by fellow Pitch Perfect alum Rebel Wilson) and the other bridesmaids, “I think I need to make a small vomit,” and then proceeds to do just that — albeit, to be fair, in a much more contained manner than in the other film.
When asked about this apparent Pitch Perfect nod, Camp cracks up, telling Entertainment Weekly, “I have puked in almost everything I’ve ever done. I’ve puked on stage. I puked in a pilot that didn’t go anywhere. I obviously puked in Pitch Perfect.”
She continues, “I puke in [Bride Hard]. I puked in a couple other independent films that I’ve done. I don’t know why people look at me and they’re like, ‘Wow, that girl, she can puke. If we need to hire an actress to puke, get Anna Camp.'”
Wilson, seated next to her for this interview, asks her friend and costar if she lists vomiting as a skill on her acting résumé. “Oh, it’s actually at the top of my résumé,” Camp jokes. “It says, ‘Puking for hire.'”
In Bride Hard, it’s bridesmaids versus bazookas. Wilson plays secret agent Sam, who is determined to prove she can be there for her bestie (Camp) on her big day. When a team of mercenaries crashes the party and takes the guests hostage, though, Sam realizes that being a bridesmaid might be her toughest mission yet.
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Anna Camp as Audrey in 2012’s ‘Pitch Perfect,’ right before she pukes
It’s the first time Camp and Wilson have worked together since Pitch Perfect 3 in 2017. Ever since, the two say they have been trying to work together again.
“Anna’s so great, she’s always working on other projects. She’s such a versatile actress, can do any genre,” Wilson gushes of her friend. “I always thought, weirdly, I’d love to do something on stage with her, because we both come from being stage actresses, but then this came up and we’re like, we’ve got to get Anna in one of the roles.”
It was actually Camp who insisted on playing the bride. “I immediately read the script and I was like, I have to play Betsy,” Camp says. “We have to play besties. We’re such good friends in real life that I felt like it would be a perfect crossover to being on screen.”
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The cast of ‘Bride Hard’
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And it was a done deal from there. Jokes Wilson, “I was like, whoa, okay, great. Let me just cancel the other famous actress who had originally been offered that role.”
Bride Hard, which also stars Anna Chlumsky, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Gigi Zumbado, Stephen Dorff, and Justin Hartley, is now playing in theaters.
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