Now, Wiig – who rose to fame with improvised sketches on TV show Saturday Night Live before catching her big break with the concept for Bridesmaids, a script she wrote in six days – says she was compelled to add in the scene to satisfy the demand for a more bloke-y sense of humour.

“When people say, ‘Oh, we're gonna give more female-centered movies a chance’, you're not reading the fine print, which is, ‘Oh, but, they have to be like this’. They want to see women acting like guys,” Wiig tells The Hollywood Reporter, in an edition of its Awards Chatter podcast this week.

“The [Bridesmaids food poisoning] scene was not our idea and it was not in the original script and we didn't love it,” she adds. “It was strongly suggested for us to put that in there. I didn't want to see people sh**ng and puking.”

Kristen Wiig says sexism to blame for infamous Bridesmaids scene