Another big fat Greek wedding

Sequel of 2002 comedy to hit cinemas on March 23

NEW YORK: Romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding is back with a sequel, looking for more laughs about family antics some 14 years after the original won over audiences. The 2002 movie, which followed young Greek woman Toula (Nia Vardalos) trying to get her family to accept her non-Greek love interest Ian (John Corbett), proved a big hit, grossing around $368 million worldwide.

Married life and parenthood are the focus of the sequel, with another big, fat Greek wedding in the works. Since the success of the first installment, Vardalos – who was nominated for an Oscar for her script – has been repeatedly asked about a sequel from fans as well as the producers, husband and wife Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. “I wouldn’t say we were bugging her but it was sort of like, we would check in with her,” Wilson said at the premiere of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 in New York on Tuesday. “Nia’s a very good friend so we see her and her husband quite a lot. But it was like, ‘Any thoughts about it? Anything coming up?’”



Vardalos told her Twitter followers in 2014 that she was working on a sequel, saying she felt ready for the project after becoming a mother. “I am feeling like it’s time to share it. We have been keeping it a secret for so long,” Vardalos said. “You know, you work on a movie for a really, really long time and we just had so much fun laughing as we made the movie. And now, I just want the audience hear it.”

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 hits cinemas worldwide on March 23. 

Published in The Express Tribune, March 18^th, 2016.

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