The solid of Bridesmaids reunited on the 2026 Oscarshowever one lady was conspicuous by her absence: Wendi McLendon-Covey.
In an Instagram put up late Sunday, March 15, the comic and actress, 56, revealed why she declined the invitation to current along with her one-time costars, together with Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph and Ellie Kemper.
“In response to among the DMs I’m getting: I had a neck elevate final week as a result of I’m uninterested in wanting like a melting candle,” she captioned a selfie of her head coated in bandages. “So I needed to skip the Academy Awards. No drama. Every little thing is ok. 😘”
2026 marks 15 years since director Paul Feig’s raucous comedy hit theaters and have become immediate field workplace gold. Bridesmaids grossed practically $300 million on the world field workplace and earned McCarthy, 55, a Finest Supporting Actress nomination on the 2012 Oscars. Wiig, who additionally wrote the film, was nominated for Finest Unique Screenplay alongside cowriter Annie Mumolo.
The 2026 Academy Awards will function a festive backdrop for an array of high-profile reunions. “Now we have an enormous reunion occurring,” Oscars government producer Raj Kapoor teased throughout a Wednesday, March 11, press convention. “There’s been rumors of what that’s, and we’re very excited to announce that we now have a Bridesmaids reunion (…)
Throughout Sunday’s 98th Academy Awards, Byrne, 46, was nominated for Finest Main Actress for the primary time in her profession for her critically acclaimed efficiency in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. The award went to Irish actress Jessie Buckley for her Hamnet.
Through the years, followers have clamored for a Bridesmaids sequelhowever in response to Wiig, that isn’t on the playing cards.
“Now we have stated we weren’t actually all in favour of, like, going again and writing one other one,” Wiig informed Andy Cohen in a 2021 interview on SiriusXM. “However I simply don’t need it to be translated as a detrimental factor, as a result of we clearly love the film. … We really feel like we informed that story and we had been simply so excited to do different issues.”
Mumolo, who was additionally a part of the interview, shared {that a} sequel is “not price doing” until they had been in a position to get the story good. “It takes years to get films made,” Mumolo defined. “And Bridesmaids took a few years to get made and … as a result of it takes so a few years, (we) felt like we purged that out of us.”
That very same 12 months, McLendon-Covey solely informed Us Weekly“, for 10 years we’ve been saying that there will likely be no sequel. And that’s coming from Kristen’s mouth. So, yeah, there isn’t any sequel.”
The actress did share the place she thinks her character, Rita, can be now, nevertheless.
“I feel perhaps considered one of Rita’s children knocked up a trainer,” McLendon-Covey informed Us. “And I feel she’s divorced and seeing that, you already know, ‘Oh, I had it so significantly better after I was married. I ponder why I used to be so depressing on a regular basis?’ I type of patterned her off of any of the Actual Housewives of wherever, the place there may be all the time one thing unsuitable, however there’s actually nothing unsuitable. It’s simply that she’s bored and must get a job.”