OLIVIA WILDE AND ANNA KENDRICK IN 'DRINKING BUDDIES'
When you call your movie Drinking Buddies, expect your stars to get plastered on set. That's exactly what happened here, as seemingly the entire cast of Buddies drank real alcohol just about the entire time. As Olivia Wilde put it in an interview with the show Off Camera with Sam Jones, getting for-real drunk while filming wasn't just fun, it was practical.
The film's setting was a brewery, after all, actually making it cheaper and easier to use real beer rather than fake it with water. It makes you wonder why more films aren't conveniently set in breweries.
As for Anna Kendrick, Wilde claims nobody told her about the on-set drinking practices. So Kendrick arrived for her first scene, took a big gulp of what she thought was water, and was almost immediately blitzed. (Kendrick, as Wilde explained and your eyes can confirm, is incredibly tiny, so she doesn't need a lot of booze to get hammered.) As Wilde put it, "[Kendrick] was like, 'What's happening?
What are you guys doing?' and we were like, 'Oh, we forgot to tell you — the beer's all real and everyone's drunk. It's 10 a.m., welcome to Drinking Buddies.'"
