Say a bit of prayer for this.
Dermot Mulroney has formally confirmed that “there is talk of a sequel” to his 1997 trendy basic rom-com, “My Best Friend’s Wedding.”
“I know nothing about it. Last I heard, quote, lawyers were talking, unquote,” he solely advised The Submit whereas selling his Netflix present “The Hunting Wives.”
“My Best Friend’s Wedding” adopted NYC-based meals critic Julianne “Jules” Potter (Julia Roberts) who had an settlement along with her buddy Michael O’Neal (Mulroney) that they’d marry one another, in the event that they each stayed single by 28.
Sadly for Jules, Michael informs her that he’s marrying Kimmy Wallace (Cameron Diaz).
A heartbroken Jules, who realizes she’s in love with Michael, goes to the marriage along with her homosexual buddy George (Rupert Everett) posing as her faux fiancé — and schemes to interrupt up the couple.
The P.J. Hogan-directed film ends on a bittersweet word, with Jules accepting that Michael is pleased with Kimmy, as George helps her.
“Oh my gosh, the whole thing was a dream,” Mulroney, 61, recalled of filming the film.
“I knew even when I got the audition for it with Julia, like waiting in line with a whole bunch of other guys and I got the role,” he advised The Submit. “I knew – and all of Hollywood knew – it was going to be an exceptional movie.”
What stands out probably the most to Mulroney is his “lasting friendship with Julia” and “credible connection with Rupert, Cameron and [Hogan] on the filming.”
“You can do a really tragic dramatic movie and still have tons of fun,” the “Family Stone” star added, “but I’ll never forget those days in Chicago on that [movie].”
Mulroney, who can also be within the long-running NBC collection “Chicago Fire,” defined: “I’ve returned to Chicago so many times, and [the memories from that movie] just keeps coming back to me. It has been a big part of my life.”
He added, “It was a life-altering experience, there’s no other way to describe it.”
The solid of the movie reunited for an Leisure Weekly photograph shoot in 2019.
“I just thought it was really clever and just funny. All the physical comedy I loved. Lots of falling down and falling through things, falling all over myself, falling over Dermot,” Roberts, 57, mentioned on the time. “The scene, for me, that made it feel so authentic and earnest is when I finally tell Dermot’s character, ‘Pick me. Let me make you happy.’ Just that line: That’s just so succinct and sweet and meaningful.”
Diaz, 52, quipped: “I got to work with these folks and Julia. It was, like, a huge break for me.”
“My Best Friend’s Wedding” opened to $21 million and in the end ranked in a home gross of $127 million.
