{"id":341894,"date":"2026-03-16T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/341894\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:26:08","slug":"melissa-mccarthy-maya-rudolph-and-rose-byrne-proved-it-at-the-2026-oscars-we-need-a-bridesmaids-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/341894\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, and Rose Byrne Proved It at the 2026 Oscars: We Need a \u2018Bridesmaids\u2019 Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve kvetched before about how all the wrong movies seem to spawn reboots<\/a>, but know this: you will never hear me arguing against a sequel to the 2011 buddy comedy Bridesmaids, which made me laugh so helplessly when I first saw it that I somehow strained a rib.<\/p>\n

As fate would have it, viewers of the 2026 Oscars<\/a> on Sunday night were blessed with a mini-Bridesmaids reunion\u2014introduced by an instrumental cover of \u201cHold On\u201d by Wilson Phillips<\/a>\u2014courtesy of stars Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, and Ellie Kemper, who were on hand at the Dolby Theatre to celebrate the film\u2019s 15th anniversary (and to present the Oscars for best score and best sound).<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot believe that it\u2019s been 15 years. Now, we are not good with numbers, but we figured out backstage that means we shot this movie in 1883,\u201d Wiig said onstage, deploying her signature comedic timing before she and her costars engaged in a fun little bit involving reading fake letters from various celebrities in the crowd aloud (Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, Elle Fanning, Benicio Del Toro, and Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd again among them).<\/p>\n

Oscars Sunday was already a big night for Byrne, who was nominated for best actress for her performance in If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/a>; and for her part, Rudolph had an especially exciting date night with longtime partner Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a>, who took home the highly coveted Oscars for best director, best adapted screenplay, and best picture for his film One Battle After Another.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, though, the girls\u2019-trip energy of the Bridesmaids gang reuniting\u2014granted, minus Wendi McLendon-Covey<\/a>, sadly\u2014made me long to see a sequel in theaters. Give the people what they crave, Paul Feig!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve kvetched before about how all the wrong movies seem to spawn reboots, but know this: you will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,28998],"class_list":["post-341894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-oscars-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}