After a nearly 90-minute wait, Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, the stars of the comedy “Bride Wars,” took part in a conference call with colleges across the nation to discuss not only their latest projects but also their “inner bridezillas.”

Question: Of all the underhanded tricks Liv (Hudson) and Emma (Hathaway) pull on one another as the wedding date approaches, which one was your favorite?

Anne Hathaway: I think my favorite one she pulled, because it was the meanest, was the weight gain. That’s low. That’s something that girls don’t do to each other. I know how hard I have to work to lose that last five pounds, so to kind of mess with that I think is wrong. But it’s kind of fun to think that Emma was driven to such a point of desperation that she could justify it to herself.

Q: What are the similarities between you and your character?

Kate Hudson: You sound like all of my relatives. I just want you to know, I feel like I’m talking right now to family Hawn – it’s so funny. I feel like Liv, for me, the similarities for with her are just kind of understanding somebody who is driven to like – if she wants something, she’s going to get it.

AH: With Emma, I could relate to the fact that Emma is much happier keeping the peace than causing a ruckus. I could definitely relate to that, but just as Kate has a stopping point, I have my boundaries for what I will put up with, and where I’ll hold my tongue is a lot earlier than Emma’s. It kicks in earlier, so I think that I’m kind of happier sort of stepping back, but I also don’t let people walk all over me.

Q: Most little girls fantasize and plan exactly how they want their wedding day to be. What was your fantasy as a little girl?

AH: I think that I, in my fantasy, was like, well, Leonardo DiCaprio and I will meet at some point, and he’ll just see me walking down the street and fall in love with me, and that’ll be that.

KH: My fantasy when I was growing up was always more, my parents weren’t married, and we were always like why aren’t you married? And we had it so ingrained in us that you didn’t need to sign a piece of paper to say that you’re a family or that you love each other. So that was how we were programmed. Then, of course, I meet Chris, and I’m like, “I’m getting married!” And then all of a sudden, I got really excited about it. So for me it was really more about who was going to be the guy that I would spend the rest of my life with, who would be that partner. And then when I met that partner, I was very excited about possibly calling up Vera Wang and seeing what she could do for me.

Q: You have to tap into your inner bridezilla for the film. How did you do that?

KH: I tapped into my inner bridezilla by, I think, acknowledging and watching some of my friends go through some stuff and understanding the stress of it myself when I got married. And I think the other thing is just as females, we all know. We’re very emotional creatures. And sometimes you can get a little carried away. I think girls get crazy, but we can also laugh at ourselves really well.

AH: Imagination. We’re human beings so I think we understand what it’s like to be jealous. What it’s like to be competitive or catty. Maybe we don’t indulge those feelings. Maybe we try not to live in that world, but I think those urges are understandable. So I think having experience with that kind of thing helps.