How an NPR Story Inspired Amy Schumer’s Gross Tapeworm Scene in ‘Snatched’
Screenwriter Katie Dippold talks to TheWrap about working with Goldie Hawn and Schumer, and how she wanted a mother/daughter action comedy
When “Snatched” screenwriter was listening to NPR in her car a couple of years ago, little did she know that a story about a guinea worm would inspire one of the most memorable (and disgusting) scenes of the new comedy starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn.
When I started writing about the jungle, where Emily (Schumer) thought she was on this beautiful journey with rainbows and sunsets and stuff, I thought, ‘what would be my worst nightmare?’ And then it hit me — having a tapeworm is my nightmare.
In “Snatched,” which hits theaters this Friday, mother-daughter duo Schumer and Hawn are lost in the Ecuadorian jungle running away from bad guys when Schumer contracts a tapeworm.
A local doctor says they must lure out the worm with a piece of meat — and a gross scene in which a huge, CGI’d tapeworm comes crawling up her throat ensues.
Dippold’s goal was to create a mother-daughter action comedy and to try “to find more roles for women.”