Elizabeth Banks Reveals The Hardest Part of French Kissing Paul Rudd During ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ on ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’: “They Had to Put a Guy Under the Dock”
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Who could forget that sloppy French kiss scene between Elizabeth Banks and Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer? Well, Drew Barrymore can’t. During today’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Banks revealed the hardest part of shooting that particular scene from the 2001 comedy.
Barrymore began the interview by playing one of her favorite games — Behind the Scenes — where the talk show host asks celebrities for stories behind their most iconic films. When she asked Banks if she and Rudd cracked up while filming the scene where their characters are aggressively French kissing, she responded with her own question: “Do you know how hard it is to climb up onto a dock when you have nothing to put your feet on?” According to the actress, there was no ladder where they wanted her to come up on the dock where the scene took place.
“This is a great funny tidbit — underneath that floating dock, they had to put a person who hung himself and I stepped in his stomach and got up onto the dock because I literally could not get myself — with my little tiny arms — could not get myself up on that dock,” she explained.
The Pitch Perfect star then joked, “I can’t do a pull-up! What am I? Superwoman?” before reiterating, “They had to put a guy under the dock.”
Before she was in The Hunger Games and Call Jane, Banks starred in the teen comedy as Lindsay, a camp counselor at Camp Firewood who has a fling with Andy, played by Rudd, despite his girlfriend also working at the camp. Set in 1981, the movie takes place on the last day of summer camp as it follows a group of camp counselors determined to settle their unfinished business.
The Drew Barrymore Show airs on weekdays at 9:30 a.m. ET on CBS.
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