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So how did "Big Bang Theory" co-star Melissa Rauch and her husband Winston Rauch come up with the ridiculously foul-mouthed character of ex-gymnast Hope Ann Greggory in "The Bronze"?

"We were selfishly trying to write something for me," Melissa Rauch said during the Q-and-A after "The Bronze" premiered Thursday night at Park City's Eccles Theatre, on the first night of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. "My very loving husband said, 'Well, you're very short, so you can play a gymnast.'"

That prompted the Rauches to consider "the idea of the bronze medal and how it's kind of this international symbol for mediocrity," she said. "Basically, when you win that, the whole world forgets except the small town you live in."

The scene that scored the biggest laughs was a hilariously acrobatic sex scene between Hope and her gold-medalist ex (played by Sebastian Stan). Much of the scene was performed by naked stunt doubles, though Stan insisted he performed some of it himself.

"As far as the sex scene, you write what you know," Melissa Rauch deadpanned. "When you're 4-10-and-a-half and 6-1, you have to get creative."

- Sean P. Means