Before saying “I do” to their new action comedy “Bride Hard,” “Pitch Perfect” stars Anna Camp and Rebel Wilson witnessed plenty of wedding day drama in real life.
When Camp married “Pitch” actor Skylar Astin in 2016, the bride’s friend accidentally struck Camp’s “Pitch Perfect” costar Elizabeth Banks in the face while busting a move at the reception.
“Elizabeth Banks froze, and then (Banks) just kept dancing, and I saw the entire thing,” Camp, 42, shares, laughing uncontrollably. “The marriage didn’t last, but that moment will never leave my head.” (Camp and Astin divorced in 2019.)
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Tragically for Wilson, the indoor pyrotechnics she arranged at her sister’s wedding “were fricking massive and started catching the (place) on fire,” says Wilson, 45. “It almost ruined the whole wedding … everyone had to be evacuated.”
The gas needed to be turned off in the building, Wilson says, which meant they couldn’t prepare the food. “It was kind of a disaster, which I blame myself for.”
In “Bride Hard” (in theaters now), Wilson’s character Sam also creates a bit of tension for her bestie, Betsy (Camp), ahead of her big day. Sam is a secret agent and keeps her occupation hidden from Betsy.
Unfortunately, Sam’s missions keep her from fulfilling her maid of honor duties, so Betsy replaces Sam with her soon-to-be sister-in-law (Anna Chlumsky). Sam still attends the fête and relies on her skills to save the day when the wedding is hijacked by mercenaries. Justin Hartley and Da’Vine Joy also star.
Wilson says she brought some martial arts experience to the role and trained for five weeks. “It was really fun to do the action scenes, until the day when I got hit in the face by a gun and my nose got slashed open,” she says. “That day was terrible, but the rest were pretty good.”
Camp felt a rush riding in a hovercraft with Wilson.
“We get ejected up into the air and we got to shoot that,” Camp says. “We were really in harnesses, and they yanked us up through the air on a soundstage.”
Both Camp and Wilson believe their acting skills would help them be terrific spies.
“I can pretend that I don’t really know what’s going on, but really, I’ve like not missed a single thing in the entire room,” Camp says. “I can clock literally everything, and I have a really good memory, and I feel like I can maybe charm people into telling me important information.”
The Australian Intelligence Corps offered Wilson a scholarship, the actress says. “So they obviously saw something in me. I could have been recruited,” Wilson says with a laugh. “I could have been good.”
She once was integral in bringing down a criminal, she says.
“They tried to hack my phone, and then I gave the information to the FBI, therefore I’m an FBI informant,” says Wilson, referencing the celebrity phone hacking incident of 2014. Edward J. Majerczyk received a nine-month sentence for the invasion of privacy.
“The piece of the information that I gave was the piece that actually cracked it down. I love the FBI. I love the CIA. Don’t ever deport me, guys.”
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: ‘Bride Hard’ star Rebel Wilson reveals wedding ‘disaster’
