‘Shotgun Wedding’ Interviews: Jennifer Coolidge and Cheech Marin

The new romantic motion comedy ‘Shotgun Wedding,’ starring Jennifer Lopez (‘Out of Sight’) and Josh Duhamel (‘Transformers’) is scheduled to premiere on Prime Video starting January twenty seventh.

Lopez and Duhamel star as Darcy and Tom, a pair which can be having their wedding ceremony on a distant tropical island. Trouble begins when Darcy’s ex-boyfriend (Lenny Kravitz) arrives uninvited, and the marriage visitors, together with their mother and father, are taken hostage by Pirates. Now, Tom and Darcy should work collectively to avoid wasting their visitors in addition to their wedding ceremony day.

Recent Golden Globe winnerJennifer Coolidge performs Tom’s overprotective mom Carol, whereas Cheech Marin performs Darcy’s father Robert. The remainder of the forged consists of Sonia Braga as Darcy’s mom Renata, Steve Coulter as Tom’s dad Larry, D’Arcy Carden as Robert’s girlfriend Harriet, Callie Hernandez as Darcy’s sister Jamie, and Selena Tan as Marge, the proprietor of the resort.

Moviefone lately had the pleasure of talking with Jennifer Coolidge and Cheech Marin about their work on ‘Shotgun Wedding,’ their outragous characters, Coolidge’s gun coaching, and dealing with Jennifer Lopez.

You can learn our full interview under or click on on the video participant above to observe our interviews with Coolidge, Marin, D’Arcy Carden, Steve Coulter, Selena Tan, and Callie Hernandez.

Moviefone: To start with, Jennifer, are you able to speak about Carol’s overprotective relationship together with her son, Tom, and the way she feels about his marriage to Darcy?

Jennifer Coolidge: Because Carol has solely had intercourse twice in her life, I believe she’s very anxious about her son being seduced by a really attractive Darcy. She’s particularly blowing it earlier than the marriage. Someone like Carol cannot relate to her attractive in-law, for positive. She cannot relate, so she’s bought to close it down. Pull out the backyard hose and get off my garden!

MF: You actually get entangled within the motion sequences and have a scene the place you might be firing a machine gun. Was that enjoyable so that you can do and what sort of coaching did you’ve got for that scene?

JC: They had been very anxious about me with the gun, the manufacturing, I believe, so I had extra gun lessons than I might deal with. I had many gun lessons, so I used to be prepared. I bought a gun diploma and all the things. I like that they took that a lot time to make it possible for I would not be harmful to anyone. How cool is it to be just a little James Bond, or some Michelle Yeoh second, or no matter.

MF: Cheech, are you able to speak about Robert’s relationship along with his girlfriend Harriet, and the drama that it causes when he brings her to his daughter’s wedding ceremony?

Cheech Marin: Well, there’s quite a lot of drama as a result of I play Darcy’s father and I invite her ex-boyfriend, performed by Lenny Kravitz, to the ceremony. So, you already know stuff’s going to occur immediately like, “What the hell did you do that for?” So, it was fascinating, however this was an awesome forged of characters. We all bought alongside very well, and every of us was very completely different than the opposite. But to convey your girlfriend to your daughter’s wedding ceremony, you already know hijinks ensue and you are going to be shocked.

MF: Finally, what was it like for you working with Jennifer Lopez and taking part in her dad?

CM: It was fantastic. I imply, she’s a extremely good actress to work with, and an excellent producer to work with, who’s appearing on the identical time. I’ve executed each, and it is a handful, however she was all the time on her marks and able to go. She set the mark, and he or she sang on the Presidential inauguration proper earlier than we began. She had legit chops. Because I’m a musician myself, I requested her about that, “What was the makeup of the orchestra?” She stated it was very minimal so you would actually hear her voice, and he or she belted it out.