Whatever you do, don't call Kirsten Dunst's latest film Bridesmaids. Dunst and co-stars Lizzy Caplan and James Marsden were in Park City, Utah, on Monday to premiere the edgy female comedy Bachelorette.
         
The cast and writer/director Leslye Headland made it clear that Bachelorette is a darker, edgier, less commercial comedy around a group of women, all were quick to say the box office hit Bridesmaids opened lots of doors for films like theirs.
         
Headland originally wrote the story as a play, which ran off-Broadway and she penned the script in 2008. Will Ferrell expressed interest in the play first and encouraged Headland to pursue the story as a film. The history behind Bachelorette emphasizes the differences from Bridesmaids.

"Any concern about it being similar to that film, it was sort of its own thing already. And so we didn't really have to do to much to it once Bridesmaids opened," said Headland.  "Although it was great that it did open so well and that 'R' rated female comedies became something that was really viable in the marketplace. There's definitely an audience for it, there are so many women who are sick of the same old thing. And this is definitely not the same old thing, this is very interesting. We'll see what happens."
         
Kirsten Dunst and Lizzy Caplan talked about how the male actors were, for once, filler to the female leads.
         
"Also the boys in our movie, they were so, they all have great stuff to do in the film but those parts are usually reserved for the girls and they just kind of took up that... not thankless because all the roles are kind of awesome," said Caplan."
         
"They're the meat in the movie," added Dunst.

James Marsden said he enjoyed playing second fiddle to his female co-stars, although he says he may have learned too much about them.
        
"I kind of like just to sit back and watch them have so much fun. Like talking about Bridesmaids, all of the things the women got to do in that film, it's almost like they get to be like frat boys for a film," said Marsden. "But they're like, we do this anyway, you just don't know that we do."
        
Also in attendance at the Sundance premiere was Will Ferrell, who shares a producing credit for the film.