Kate Hudson laments R-rated “Bride Wars” being rejected while Judd Apatow got to make “Bridesmaids” 2 years later

The R-rated version of Bride Wars never made it down the aisle, but Kate Hudson will never stop sharing her love of the 2009 rom-com's original, much more explicit script.

"Casey [Wilson] and June [Diane Raphael] wrote Bride Wars — which was originally a very rated-R Bride Wars that was at Miramax, and then Miramax fell apart and Fox picked it up [at] New Regency," Hudson said on Sunday's episode of her Sibling Revelry podcast with brother Oliver Hudson. "And then slowly but surely it became a PG version of what Casey and June initially wrote."

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While toning down the movie's content was already a tough pill to swallow, what happened next made it worse. "We were ahead of the curve when it came to a very rated-R female comedy, and they didn't want to do it," Kate said. "But when Judd Apatow wanted to make Bridesmaids, they were very happy to be a little bit more what we were trying to initially do to begin with."

"We were ahead of the curve, that's the headline," screenwriter Wilson agreed.

Kate continued, "We were ahead of the curve, and then we kind of got a little smushed by them wanting it to be PG. But Casey and June wrote the most — I sometimes wish we could put out that original script because it was so deeply funny."

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Bride Wars starred Kate and Anne Hathaway as two lifelong BFFs who always dreamed about having perfect June weddings at the same venue at some point in their lives. But when a scheduling mishap lands both of their weddings on the same day, they declare war on each other with escalating sabotaging pranks that threaten both their friendship and marriages.

Meanwhile Apatow's Bridesmaids, written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, came out two years later and starred Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Elli Kemper in a raunchy tale about female friendship centered around a bachelorette trip and wedding planning.

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