The cast of the hilarious new comedy "Shotgun Wedding," including Jennifer Coolidge, Josh Duhamel, Cheech Marin, D’Arcy Carden, Steve Coulter, Callie Hernandez and Selena Tan, talk about what it was like working with Jennifer Lopez and how she handles her role as producer. They also discuss what it was like filming in a pool for weeks on end, and much more in this fantastic interview with CinemaBlend’s Corey Chichizola.
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00:00 - Well, I was thrilled to find out
00:05 there was some, that I would have a submachine gun
00:08 in this film.
00:11 - Nobody messes with my family.
00:13 (upbeat music)
00:17 - Speaking on the J-Lo of it all,
00:23 she's a scene partner, but she's also a producer.
00:26 Can you talk about that experience?
00:27 - You know, it was very obvious when they said action,
00:31 and she appeared and knew everything.
00:34 And she had a couple of challenges early,
00:36 replacing, changing cast members,
00:39 and not go crazy doing in that process,
00:44 and be the lead, and be warm and inviting and smiling
00:49 and funny and beautiful at the same time.
00:52 That's a lot of stuff.
00:53 - Yeah, I remember on the first day of filming with her,
00:56 I'm like doing this, you know,
00:57 filming with her in real life.
00:59 My eyes are looking at her eyes.
01:00 It's like in real life and it's Jennifer Lopez.
01:02 And I'm like, this is wild.
01:03 And that was surreal.
01:04 But then when it was her coverage,
01:06 I was like looking through the monitor and I was like,
01:09 she is a movie star.
01:12 Like the way she looks on, she is,
01:14 she's like on another planet.
01:17 She really knows.
01:17 - I said the exact same thing watching.
01:20 And I actually feel like this might be like
01:21 her funniest performance ever.
01:23 - I agree totally.
01:24 She's so funny.
01:25 - Give me the grenade, sir.
01:26 (grunting)
01:27 I got it, I got it.
01:28 - Oh, you got it.
01:29 - I got it.
01:29 - You got it.
01:30 - I got it.
01:31 - Okay.
01:32 - I didn't, she, you felt her just being totally in it.
01:34 Like you didn't feel like she was a boss or anything.
01:37 She just was so into the role.
01:39 She worked so hard.
01:40 - Yeah.
01:41 Yeah, that girl puts in many hours into her day.
01:45 But you know, always sort of looks like
01:49 she just came out of hair and makeup,
01:51 even though even she didn't have hair.
01:54 She didn't have hair and makeup on.
01:56 And then somehow she looked like,
01:58 she just sort of like early morning,
02:00 before hair and makeup, she looks like she's had makeup.
02:02 - You look so much better than the rest of us.
02:05 - You know, she sort of looks sort of glamorous all the time
02:07 and running the show.
02:09 She's kind of like an anomaly.
02:12 I don't know.
02:13 She has energy, more energy than anyone I've ever met.
02:16 I mean, she's just, she's kind of a very impressive person.
02:19 - Is that genetics or is it like Pilates?
02:23 Can you speak to kind of that process
02:26 of working with her quite extremely close?
02:29 Like, I can't imagine how much closer
02:30 you could have gotten in that moment.
02:32 - Thankfully those things were easy release.
02:33 So every time we were like resetting or whatever,
02:36 we could take them off and just carry them around with us.
02:38 But yeah, that was, it was,
02:40 there was a lot of physical challenges to this movie,
02:43 but that was part of the fun of it for me.
02:45 I loved, I knew that this thing was gonna be heightened
02:50 and comedically, you know,
02:52 it's not a subtle sort of comedy,
02:54 although there are a lot of subtle moments.
02:56 It's these set pieces are big and broad
02:59 and over the top in a great way.
03:02 You know, she and I both sort of embraced that, you know,
03:05 for her it was an opportunity to really sort of
03:07 do something she hadn't done.
03:08 And for me too.
03:10 I think the most important thing though was,
03:12 does the audience,
03:13 are they gonna believe that we are meant to be together
03:17 and should be together?
03:18 Because if we don't have that, the movie's not gonna work.
03:20 So we really started there and then grew from that.
03:25 - The cast talked about that because we were concerned
03:28 because you think that the whole movie rides
03:29 on if there's a chemistry between them.
03:31 - You're always thinking,
03:32 oh, he would never end up with her.
03:33 - Yeah, 'cause yeah, a lot of movies-
03:34 - He's too good for her.
03:34 - Yeah, it was the opposite of that.
03:36 It was like, is that the only person they could get?
03:39 Oh, that's funny.
03:40 (laughing)
03:40 All right, fine.
03:42 - Can you talk about working with her
03:43 in these dual roles on the project?
03:46 - Yeah, she works really, really hard.
03:49 She works really, really hard and she's, I mean, come on.
03:54 I was just happy to be there.
03:57 I don't have any complaints.
03:58 She's great.
04:00 It was incredible.
04:01 - One of the things that really stuck out to me
04:02 while watching this movie was just how long
04:05 you all spent in that pool.
04:07 What was it like kind of spending weeks
04:09 with this ensemble of people in a pool, basically?
04:13 - To the pool, now!
04:15 - Well, people were great.
04:16 - Yeah, the people were amazing.
04:17 - It's needed first.
04:19 'Cause you're in the Caribbean, it was an infinity pool,
04:22 so you're looking out at the ocean.
04:24 But the pool itself, they stopped filtering it.
04:28 And there's like two dozen people in there
04:30 for like two weeks, the sunscreen and memories.
04:35 Memories just floating on the surface.
04:40 I had just very light clothing,
04:42 but you had like these layers of things in the hat.
04:47 - You guys were in a pool for a really long time.
04:49 I was stressed on your behalf.
04:51 Can you speak about the experience?
04:53 I'm assuming it was days on end of being in that pool.
04:56 - Thank you for feeling our pain.
04:58 - Go ahead, Darcy.
05:00 - I am, no, I mean, it was, you know,
05:03 yes, it was days and weeks on end.
05:05 It was, we were very aware of like the privilege
05:08 of where we were and that it's this beautiful location
05:11 and all that stuff, but we were-
05:13 - We were soaked.
05:14 - We were soggy.
05:16 We were soggy.
05:17 - I remember one time when we had a lot of days to spare,
05:20 a lot of time we were in the pool and Darcy and Callie
05:25 and I said, I said, okay, well,
05:27 there's three cameras going here.
05:29 It was a tutorial.
05:30 Three cameras going and they're moving.
05:32 And if you want to be in this movie,
05:34 you got to know where those cameras are.
05:36 - We did get like a full, it was great.
05:37 We got like a really great, you know,
05:39 sort of like a cinematographer lesson from Cheech
05:43 while we're sitting in wedding clothes in the pool
05:45 on like, you know, day 18 or whatever.
05:47 - So like a normal day at work.
05:49 - Yeah, exactly.
05:50 - Yeah, exactly.
05:51 - You get it.
05:52 - Sometimes it was cold.
05:53 Sometimes we weren't sure, you know,
05:55 how long people had been in the water.
05:58 And, but you know, they are such troopers.
06:00 This, this bunch of actors and even the extras
06:03 who were from the Dominican Republic,
06:05 who were in the pool for considerable time.
06:09 They, they, they were very,
06:12 they, they, they were very good about it.
06:14 They didn't, you know, there was no real complaints
06:16 and people really just did their best in the show.
06:19 I actually think that that scene
06:21 really sets the show apart from,
06:23 from other things that I've seen.
06:24 It's quite a special moment that all these, you know,
06:27 wedding guests all decked out, you know,
06:30 just there stuck in the pool.
06:32 - We did spend weeks in the pool together in clothes.
06:37 So that got interesting in moments for sure.
06:42 I think Coolidge called it earlier today, a stew.
06:47 It was a bit of a stew by the end of it.
06:50 But I mean, we were all such great friends
06:52 and got along so well
06:53 that we kept each other pretty entertained.
06:55 And also we're in an infinity pool,
06:57 surrounded by the ocean where there's literal whales
07:00 jumping out of the ocean.
07:01 So we were okay.
07:03 - I've been looking forward to this moment
07:04 ever since baby Tommy was cut out of my abdomen.
07:07 [upbeat music]
07:11 - Can you speak to your chemistry
07:13 and your time working with Miss Coolidge on this?
07:16 - What I was like, my job, like, you know,
07:19 my actor homework was to adore my wife.
07:22 And I, so I didn't really have to act.
07:24 So I just, you know, and to take care of her.
07:26 So I was just, that's what I did.
07:28 I got to adore working with her.
07:30 And that was a very simple little objective.
07:34 And so I didn't, that was it.
07:36 I was like, I got to adore.
07:37 And my character doesn't have drama.
07:39 He sort of was like, well, okay.
07:41 So we have pirates.
07:42 That's a, well, we'll adapt as long as everyone's safe.
07:45 - White Lotus, I'm a huge fan like everybody else was.
07:48 So between the finale that just happened
07:51 and now your role in this,
07:53 I feel like you're basically like an action star.
07:56 - Nobody messes with my family.
07:58 - Well, I was thrilled to find out there was some,
08:06 that I would have a submachine gun.
08:10 In this film, even though that, you know,
08:13 I knew it was a rom-com and everything.
08:14 I loved that it had this, had this shootout scene.
08:18 And I have to tell you, there was many steps of,
08:23 for, it was like, it was like two solid months
08:27 of gun lessons every day after work.
08:30 I feel like they kind of knew who I am
08:31 and they wanted to make sure I didn't mess up.
08:35 'Cause I have that, I guess I looked like I would mess up
08:38 or something.
08:39 So anyway, but there was many lessons.
08:40 And you know, it all paid off.
08:41 - Can you speak to what it was like, you know,
08:43 working with all of these like awesome, great,
08:45 you know, legends on this cast?
08:47 - Yeah, I could talk to you for hours and hours
08:50 and hours on end.
08:51 I mean, really and truly,
08:53 you're gonna have to probably stop me
08:54 because it was the best group of people.
08:59 The most wonderful people.
09:01 If you're wondering if Coolidge is as wonderful
09:05 as you hope she is, she is and more.
09:07 And Darcy Carden is a friend of mine now and incredible.
09:12 And Steve Coulter is one of the funniest people I've ever,
09:17 and sweetest people I've ever worked with.
09:19 And Cheech is the best.
09:22 And I mean, really, and Selena Tan is so lovely
09:27 and wonderful and so funny.
09:29 How I got in here, I don't know.
09:32 Like, I don't know, but I'm just, I'm here.
09:36 - You know, I went into the movie.
09:37 I didn't even really check who was gonna be in the movie.
09:40 I was in the makeup room quite early on in the studio.
09:44 And I walked, you know, I walked back to my room
09:47 and I saw that they had these, you know,
09:49 headshots of everybody who's gonna be in the movie.
09:51 I sent it to my friends in Singapore and they said,
09:53 "Lenny Kravitz is in the movie.
09:54 You didn't tell us Lenny Kravitz."
09:56 And I was like, "Lenny, where, where?"
09:58 And then I saw all these people
09:59 and they are such amazing people.
10:02 - Looks like he's leading a porn safari.
10:04 - Oops, he forgot to button his shirt all the way up.
10:06 - Great actors, so fun comedically,
10:09 but warm and loving, you know,
10:11 wonderful people to hang out with
10:14 outside of the shoot as well.
10:15 We really became quite a tight family.
10:18 I think that was great.
10:19 - I, as soon as I read it, I couldn't say yes fast enough.
10:23 It just was like, I was thinking about
10:25 what all those scenes would look like and be like,
10:27 and how it would be to film them.
10:28 And I was very, very excited.
10:30 So thanks, thank you.
10:31 - I was thrilled to get a job, you know, right then,
10:34 because it was during COVID.
10:36 - Yeah, it was really deep.
10:36 - During the pandemic.
10:37 Oh, in the Dominican Republic and with Jennifer Lopez
10:40 and, okay, we can do this, you know.
10:43 - Yeah, that's amazing.
10:45 - It was a little too dreamy for words.
10:46 It was kind of like a vacation.
10:48 (dramatic music)
10:51 - You okay?
10:52 - Yeah, just, you know, I looked over there
10:54 and I saw the blood and, you know,
10:56 I think I saw some brain.
10:57 Was that brain stuff?
10:58 - Well, you know what, maybe we should,
10:59 let's just step away from the scene.
11:01 (dramatic music)
11:04 [MUSIC]