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All good reunions should involve an abundance of laughter and tears, and at that place were certainly both recently when EW reunited the cast of the 1997 blockbuster My Best Friend's Wedding in Los Angeles. Star Julia Roberts, 51, and her titular BFF Dermot Mulroney, 55 (close pals in real life), arrived together and immediately wanted to get down to business.
"Let'due south go see Cameron," Roberts exclaimed excitedly while dragging Mulroney by the arm. So came the laughter. Roberts and Cameron Diaz, 46, have, arguably, two of the best laughs in Hollywood, and their joy echoed throughout the photo studio. It simply got more giggly when costar Rupert Everett, 59 — who played George, Roberts' character's gay wingman — arrived. The group'due south buzzy, infectious energy is part of what has cemented Nuptials'south status as a rom-com classic.
"People come up to me and just say, "My Best Friend's Wedding!" and I'm like, "Aww," says Diaz. "Information technology's only this joyous feeling that y'all go off of them. I appreciate that so much." Mulroney is fifty-fifty moved to tears when talking near the pic. "I think about these guys every mean solar day," he admits. "Because people come up to me and they bring up this movie every mean solar day for the last 22 years."
My Best Friend's Nuptials tells the story of nutrient critic (and large-cell-telephone possessor) Julianne Potter (Roberts), who discovers her bestie Michael (Mulroney) is marrying pastel-loving rich Chicago college student Kimmy (Cameron Diaz). The revelation sends her into a jealousy-fueled revenge plot to steal Michael back and ruin the wedding (Julianne and Michael had "one hot month" in college but take been platonic e'er since).
Wedding, which can be downloaded on Amazon Prime or iTunes, stands apart from other films in the genre for its mixture of both sweet and sour, especially in its choice to have America's Sweetheart, Roberts, play the rather villainous Julianne.
"Romantic comedy is a really hard genre," says director P.J. Hogan, who was interviewed separately from the cast. "I call back what kills romantic comedies is they often experience prepackaged or similar frozen food that hasn't quite thawed — they're just not really fresh. Just when I see the movie, it'south nonetheless got a snap to information technology. When it'due south funny, it's actually funny, and the actors all glow. And I think Julia was extraordinary in the lead part. I mean, who else could've pulled that off?"
EW brought together the Wedding party to talk about the film, catfights, and, oh yeah, karaoke.
My Best Friend's Wedding ceremony was shot on location in Chicago in the summer of 1996 nether the direction of Hogan, who had a breakout sleeper hit with 1995'south Muriel's Wedding ceremony, and with a script by Oscar winner Ronald Bass (Rain Man). Information technology was a return to the genre that had made Roberts a star with 1990'due south Pretty Adult female and provided major roles for newcomer Diaz, who made her debut in 1994's The Mask, and Everett.
JULIA ROBERTS: I only thought it was really clever and just funny. All the physical one-act I loved. Lots of falling down and falling through things, falling all over myself, falling over Dermot. The scene, for me, that made it feel so authentic and earnest is when I finally tell Dermot'due south character, "Pick me. Let me make yous happy." Simply that line: That's but so succinct and sweet and meaningful.
DERMOT MULRONEY: I liked that he was the lead in the movie and Julia Roberts liked him. I liked those, like, obvious elements, but he had his own little story. He was a sportswriter and he was in love in means that many people still contend with me about. I wouldn't give this picture upward for annihilation.
CAMERON DIAZ: Aye. I hateful, I was considering turning it down. No, I'grand kidding. I got to work with these folks and Julia. It was, like, a huge break for me.
MULRONEY: I've worked in Chicago a lot since and then, and that city loves this movie. Information technology's incredible.
DIAZ: My sister-in-law [Nicole Richie] is obsessed with this film. Nosotros went to Chicago, similar, a year and a one-half ago, and she took me to every single [location]. She's like, "Retrieve when you were walking down the street right here and then…" It was and so much fun. I was similar, "Yes, I think I do." She's like, "I do, and it really means a lot to me, and then I would similar for you to pretend like you exercise."
RUPERT EVERETT: When I got the part, information technology was literally two lines in the script. I idea it was kind of a career-icide motility at get-go. P.J. Hogan made me examination, like, three or four times for the moving picture. I kept maxim, "P.J., what can I do? There'due south nil I can do."
ROBERTS: You audio similar you didn't want it.
EVERETT: And then I came in with quite a bad attitude, in a way. What was the point, I thought. Merely it was a complete changing bespeak for me.
MULRONEY: And for our movie civilization, Rupert. Information technology was a changing indicate for that, too.
EVERETT: Just we all got on then well straightaway. And everybody clicked on screen straightaway, and yous could feel that. And for me, it was magical. But the last time I saw it, it kind of made me cry only thinking of how magic that time was, that summer.
Julianne makes many unlike attempts at sabotage, but possibly the well-nigh mortifying is a karaoke-bar triple engagement between her, Michael, and vocally challenged Kimmy.
P.J. HOGAN:We staged it as a real karaoke song, where the lyrics appear in forepart of you on all the monitors. So I shot it live. Cameron only botched her fashion through the song, and the worse she got, the ameliorate the scene was. But then Cameron was so game that the applause started to become real.
DIAZ: I was terrified to practice that scene, for existent. I allowed the true terror of singing in front of people to exist alive in me. I wanted to run and hide, and Dermot kept me there. He said, "You can exercise it, you can do it." In the scene, I'm only staring at him the whole fourth dimension because he's looking at me like, "You're okay. Yous're not gonna die." And I was like, "But I'm dying."
EVERETT: It'southward an amazing scene because it turns around from being ridiculous to all of a sudden being incredibly moving. [Michael and Kimmy] fall in dearest more than and [Julianne] becomes more isolated in her plotting.
ROBERTS: I demand to picket this movie once more. I don't recall feeling isolated in my plotting. [Looks at Everett] I had you.
EVERETT: I hadn't arrived back so — you lot were on your own.
DIAZ: And Julianne too knew that I didn't desire to sing, and she made me sing.
ROBERTS I but was trying to be encouraging. All correct?
Director Hogan injected a heavy dose of musicality into the film, a defining feature of Muriel'south Nuptials, also. One of the most iconic moments is a scene in which George bursts into Burt Bacharach'southward "I Say a Little Prayer" at a seafood eating house in front of Julianne, Michael, Kimmy, and the wedding political party.
HOGAN: I actually wanted to give George a lot more….I'd always wanted to do a scene at a eating place. I was talking with my wife and I simply said, "What if he was to lead a big singalong — what would be a vocal that everybody knows?" We realized that everybody seems to know at least most of the lyrics to quite a few Bacharach songs.
EVERETT: P.J. simply wrote that scene just before the movie started. [It wasn't written] when I got the script originally. And then when the movie started, P.J. invented the scene.
DIAZ: And the best office of information technology was when they started handing out the bibs. And we were all like, "What?" We were like, "Is this happening?" They're like, "Aye."
EVERETT: And and then that night, I went dorsum with you [looks at Roberts] on the Warner jet to New York, and so I thought I was living the dream.
One of the moving-picture show's quieter, more sweetly moving moments occurs soon after the seafood restaurant. Julianne and Michael accept a ferry ride effectually Chicago and share one final dance.
MULRONEY: Nosotros're going under numerous bridges, so pretty much every bridge or peradventure every other, somebody leans down and yells, "Julia!" during the filming. We'd either break or just blaze through similar you do. Then, like the 8th trip down the river somebody yells, "Hey, Dermot!" and I was similar, "Yes!" I look up and it's, similar, a friend from college, which didn't really count. I go, "Hullo, John."
After Wedding ceremony wrapped, information technology faced some harsh exam screenings, which sent production back into reshoots. The film'southward ending (originally Julianne found beloved with a wedding guest played by John Corbett) and a bathroom meet betwixt Julianne and Kimmy underwent major changes.
HOGAN: In one case I knew that the studio would pay [to reshoot] the last scene, I thought, "There were a couple of other scenes I recall sucked — we best do a better job." The start bathroom scene just didn't work at all. The way it originally played was Cameron'due south graphic symbol just forgave Julianne well-nigh immediately. I remember on set, Cameron kept maxim, "I don't know why I'm forgiving her, I only desire to punch her. She virtually ruined my life."
DIAZ: I think it just kind of revealed that information technology was needed. When the motion-picture show was put together, everybody kind of simply went, "Information technology wasn't skillful for her character to not have [her moment], you know?"
ROBERTS: Yeah, we needed a little bit more of an adversary.
DIAZ: If Kimmy didn't stand up up for herself, it felt different for the finish of the story. It wasn't as gratifying.
ROBERTS Nor was the original catastrophe that we filmed. It was not every bit gratifying.
HOGAN: The focus group didn't desire Julianne to accept a happy ending. They still hadn't forgiven her. They but weren't gear up for her to end up in the arms of another guy. I thought the answer was George, considering the film really worked when Rupert was on camera. Rupert and Julia'southward chemical science is and so great.
EVERETT: When I read the [final scene] I couldn't believe it. It'south cute. The whole end is so wonderful and tragic in a way. It's very, very moving. And that'due south some other thing in the movie: Information technology's a comedy, merely it'south got things that are really, really touching and moving.
HOGAN: One of the studio executives called it "the $xl million reshoot." I said, "But it didn't cost $forty million." He said, "No, that's what you've added to your box office."
My Best Friend'southward Wedding opened on June xx, 1997, to $21 million and concluded up with a domestic gross of $127 million. Mulroney and Diaz believe Michael and Kimmy are still living happily ever after.
MULRONEY: It supports the whole theory that it's the right girl for him, correct guy for her, yous know?
EVERETT: I call up George and Julianne are a little bit like Will and Grace.
ROBERTS: We're not living together. Just I live beyond the street.
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