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Bride Wars
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- #001
During a scene in which the characters slap each other, Kate Hudson accidentally struck Anne Hathaway across the face much harder than intended. Although Hudson hit her with the large diamond ring on her finger, Hathaway kept filming the scenes through the pain. Hudson later found Hathaway sitting in a chair with an ice pack on her face.
- #002
A shoot during the reception involved a complicated series of dance steps. After many failed attempts, an extra who was a dance instructor wanted to teach the actors how to perform the steps correctly.
- #003
The film was initially conceived as a teen comedy starring Emma Roberts as Liv and Nikki Reed as Emma.
- #004
This was Kate Hudson's first producing credit on a feature film.
- #005
Some wives and girlfriends of 2009 Red Sox players appeared as extras in the wedding party scene.
- #006
Liv's engagement ring is a five-carat Tiffany Novo cushion cut.
- #007
The screenplay was completed just before the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
- #008
In early versions of the screenplay, Liv's hair was shaved bald rather than dyed blue.
- #009
Kate Hudson and Steve Howey were reunited in Something Borrowed (2011).
- #010
Kate Hudson improvised the scene in which Liv gets her hair done.
- #011
The film's cast includes one Oscar winner, Anne Hathaway, and two Oscar nominees, Kate Hudson and Candice Bergen.
- #012
Director Gary Winick also directed 13 Going on 30.
- #013
At the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, Anne Hathaway won the award for Choice Movie Actress: Comedy for her role as Emma.
- #014
It is worth noting that Deb, the unsympathetic character in the story, walks alone away from the dance floor at the end of the film, passing between dancing couples while sipping from a bottle of wine.
- #015
Apparently the male strippers at the club party received no appreciation at all.
- #016
The episode of American Idol that Emma and Fletcher watch features the performances of the top 24 men of the seventh season.
- #017
June Diane Raphael, who plays the bride at whose wedding Liv and Emma are friends at the beginning of the film, is married to Paul Scheer, who plays Dance Doctor Ricky Coo.
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