Although the photo above could represent every Dissident Mormon’s fantasy, it is actually a scene from Bride Wars, a slap-stick comedy about lifelong best friends (played by Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson) who quickly become rivals when their weddings are inadvertently scheduled on the same day, place and time. Earl Dittman talked to the two Oscar-nominees about  their preferred booze, and the horrors and hazards of making comedy.

Did either of you have to do anything special to get in shape for your form-fitting gowns?

ANNE: “We didn’t eat for weeks. Is this your cup of coffee? Give it to me. I’ve got to have it. I’m starving.” [Laughs]

KATE:“I worked-out a lot. But, I’m always doing something physical. I’m either dancing, doing Pilates, biking or running. I’m really quite active. But, for this movie, we were actually doing a lot of drinking.”

ANNE: “Drinking is a great way to develop your biceps.”

What are your favorite drinks?

KATE: “I’m a tequila girl, and we like our champagne.”

ANNE: “Well, when I’m with Kate, it’s whatever she’s having.”

In real life, would you like to share a double wedding with your best friend?

KATE: “In real life, I don’t know if I even want to get married again.” [Laughs]

For all the men out there how would kill for a date with either of you, do you think there is such a thing as “the perfect guy?”

KATE: “I still don’t know who the perfect guy is yet. I do know I like honest guys. That gets me going. I like guys who are really upfront and are who they are. They are hard to find.”

ANNE: “Yes, they are.”

Do you think that women are meaner and crueler to each other than men are?

KATE: “I don’t know, I grew up with all boys.”

ANNE: “It’s hard to say.”

KATE: “Yeah, I think so. Women are a little bit more complicated. Listen, guys are complicated, too. I think women can really hit you where it hurts—like a knife. Men go for the shins, women can be more hurtful because we’re more emotional.”

The bachelorette party and dance-off is a pretty crazy sequence in Bride Wars. What was it like to film?

ANNE: “Well, the script told me to go for it, and I did. As all good comedy is painful and horrifying to actually do, I felt very protected by my character’s drunkenness. I really wanted to be a good dancer, but I’m not a good dancer. Watching the movie is hard for me. I’m trying really hard, and I just look silly and drunk. My favorite part of the scene was cut out, at the end, where I run up to the officer and did a handstand at his feet and wrapped my hands around his legs. He grabbed my feet and my butt and I said, ‘Book me.’ Doing it take after take felt so good.” [Laughs]

KATE: “I was so terrified when you were doing that. I thought you’d go right over his head. I thought, ‘She’s going to wipe out. I can’t watch this.’ So, there’s a lot of great stuff that will be on this DVD, we got a lot of good outtakes from this movie. We also have some behind-the-scenes footage that’s kind of funny. The DVD extras should be rated R.”

ANNE: “When we made the movie, we didn’t know where we wanted the humor to be, so we did raunchy versions of jokes. The DVD is coming.” [Laughs]

Blu-ray + DVD Bonus Features:Pop-Up Wedding Cost Calculator, 7 Deleted Scenes with Alternate Opening, Cast Improvisations, “In Character with” Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, and several Featurettes.

Her under-stated oddball, Phoebe, was often the best part of TV’s Friends, and Lisa Kudrow is proving that there is cinematic life after years on a mega-successful sitcom. Kudrow can now add the wacky and kid-friendly canine comedy Hotel For Dogs to her resume. Kudrow, co-starring with Entourage’s Kevin Dillon co-star as wanna-be rock star foster parents, add some grown-up fun to the story of Andi (Emma Roberts), and her younger brother Bruce (Jake T. Austin), two kids who turn an abandoned hotel into a home for stray dogs.

Why did you decide to do a studio film like Hotel For Dogs?
“Well, I had seen Nancy Drew, and I loved Emma Roberts. That’s Number One. Don Cheadle is in it, which could tie for Number One. And, also really up there for a reason to do it was that my son Julian could finally see me in a movie.”

Which one of your movies would be least appropriate for Julian, your 11-year-old son, to see?
“Wonderland, without a doubt. Yeah, he’s not seeing that one.”

How would you describe your character’s style in Hotel For Dogs?
“Well, you know that sad rough look from the ’80s. It’s ’80s-ish. It was that. It was what this character’s memory of what rock and roll was. You know?”

You play one half of an aspiring pop music duo with Kevin Dillon. Growing up, did you ever dream of becoming a rock star?
“No, never! Never! No! Boy, I answered that so definitely. [Laughs] No, I don’t think so.”

What about a folk singer?
“Yeah, definitely a folk singer, but that’s different. All I knew, when I was a kid, was that it was Janis Joplin dead, Jimi Hendrix dead. So, I thought, ‘Rock stars, they all die. So, you don’t want to make that a career goal.’ (laughs) On the other hand, comedians like Lucille Ball had series after series. She didn’t die. Lucy was always making people laugh and making them happy.”

On Friends, Phoebe always sang out of tune. How is your singing in real life? Are you out of tune?
“No, no, no, my husband loves the way I sing, and I sing without thinking about it. I get up in the morning and I’m singing. Sometimes I really am, I get up in the morning with a song in my head and I’m just singing. No, I don’t sing out of tune.”

Are you a big dog owner?
“I’m a small dog owner.  I have a toy poodle.”

Do you travel around with your poodle or take it to events with you?
“No, I don’t. No. Dressing your dogs up or pushing them around in strollers is just unnecessary. It’s just like traveling everywhere with you dog, it is completely unnecessary.”

Of course, I have to ask the obligatory Friends movie question. Have they approached you about doing a big screen version of the series?
“I’ve never heard anything except from the press.”

Would you like to do a Friends movie if it all came together?
“Yeah, I’d do it. If everyone else was doing it, I wouldn’t be the one replaced or the one hold out.”

I recently asked Jennifer Aniston the same question.
“Really? How did Jennifer respond?”

Jennifer basically said the same thing you did. She’d love to do it, but she hasn’t heard a word anything about from the studio, just in online or in the press.
“Okay. One time, I saw (David) Schwimmer answer, and I loved how he did it. When someone asked him about a Friends movie, he was like, ‘Yeah, wouldn’t that be great!?’ But, no, I haven’t heard anything, but I like the sentiment of ‘Wouldn’t that be great!?’”

There is a whole new generation of fans watching Friends now. Do you ever get sick of it?
“No! I have to remember it in the first place. I don’t remember things that I’ve done. I did it and now it’s gone.”

BD + DVD Bonus Features: Commentary by director Thor Freudenthal, Ewan “Jack” Leslie, Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin, “A Home For Everyone: The Making Of Hotel For Dogs,” “That’s The Coolest Thing I’ve Ever Seen!” and “K-9 Casting” Featurettes, 8 Deleted Scenes, Theatrical Trailer #2 and Photo Galleries.