Kristen Wiig didn’t realize how much the audience was ready to paarrtyyy in 2011.

The actress, 52, revealed that she didn’t know how successful the rom-com “Bridesmaids” would be until a few weeks after its theatrical release.

“I remember after opening weekend, they were like, ‘Well, we tried,'” Wiig reminisced while on Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast. “And we were like, ‘Sorry.'” 7

She added, “We just thought, like, that was it. And then I think just more and more people kept seeing it and then it kind of happened later.”

Wiig labeled the movie a “grower.”

Wiig, who co-wrote the hit project with Annie Mumolo , starred as Annie, the maid of honor, trying to plan a wedding for her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and leads the group of bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa

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