Scarlett Johansson and Rough Night co-stars give tips for a great hen night

No one slays a hen night weekend quite like the ladies of Rough Night. In the R-rated summer comedy, a soon-to-be-bride (Scarlett Johansson) and her best friends (Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer, Zoë Kravitz and Kate McKinnon) reunite in Miami for one last blowout, only to accidentally kill a male stripper.

It’s the feature directorial debut of Lucia Aniello (Broad City), who wanted to make a film “about what happens when your friends from college get back together,” she says. Aniello and co-writer Paul W. Downs were looking for “a pressure cooker of a situation to put them in, so when we thought of (gender swapping) the trope of a dead stripper, those two ideas just felt like they would work.”

We sat down with the film’s stars to get their own rough-night recollections.

What’s your favourite bachelorette memory?

Johansson: I went to my sister’s bachelorette party and my sister-in-law bought these enormous [penis-shaped] trays to make cakes in. We iced these cakes in a very realistic manner, which I took great pride in. You’d be very surprised how hard it is to get the right flesh tone. … I was standing outside with this penis cake that was grotesquely realistic – in heels and a short dress, people are walking past, I don’t know if [they] recognise me – and I just couldn’t [understand why we couldn’t hail a cab].

McKinnon: That’s New York, baby.

Kravitz: I’ve never been to a bachelorette party.

Bell: Zoë, I will find the perfect man and get married, just so I can invite you.