Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel on ‘Shotgun Wedding ceremony,’ Jennifer Coolidge – The Hollywood Reporter

Jennifer Lopez, one of many unofficial queens of the rom-com, is again together with her newest addition to the style, this time with a wholesome dose of motion blended in.

Lopez and Josh Duhamel star in Shotgun Wedding ceremony, which follows the 2 as they collect their households for a vacation spot marriage ceremony. However the ceremony will get placed on maintain when gunmen take everybody hostage. The couple should then got down to save their family members, which incorporates a starry supporting forged together with Jennifer Coolidge, Lenny Kravitz, D’Arcy Carden and Cheech Marin.

Lopez was drawn to the script, which she was despatched after she had “simply signed on to do Marry Me and was about to do it and was like, ‘Ah, I don’t need to do one other marriage ceremony film,’” she advised The Hollywood Reporter on the movie’s Los Angles premiere on Wednesday. “I keep in mind, I used to be in my tub and was like, ‘Let me learn this script they despatched over. They preserve asking me to learn it.’ After which I learn it and I used to be like, ‘Oh that is humorous, this may very well be good; relying on who directed this, it may very well be actually good.’ After which once we obtained [director] Jason Moore I used to be like, ‘OK, that is gonna be enjoyable,’ and we obtained this superb forged.”

Duhamel (who changed Armie Hammer within the movie after the actor exited amid his 2021 controversies) has identified Lopez for years and “knew that it wasn’t going to be troublesome for us to attach in a means that was practical on movie, as a result of if we weren’t ready to try this the film wasn’t going to work and we talked about that,” he defined. “We talked about trusting one another and it doesn’t matter what; I’ve obtained your again and also you’ve obtained mine so go for it, don’t be afraid to do one thing foolish.”

Coolidge performs Duhamel’s mom within the movie, which he jokes “is mindless” as she’s 11 years older than him, however known as her “one among my favorites for a really very long time. We had a blast working collectively — she’s very a lot an observer, she sits again and she or he’s soiled, she’s filthy and she or he’s hilarious. And also you by no means know what she’s going to do on digicam, by the way in which.”

The forged was, unsurprisingly, filled with Coolidge tales, as Carden recalled how they had been within the Dominican Republic capturing for months and the actress was proud to reach with only a single suitcase.

Coolidge, nevertheless, confirmed up with seven full-size suitcases, as Carden teased, “White Lotus come to life,” with “no less than one baggage filled with silk kimonos.”

“She would come right down to breakfast and I used to be like, ‘Observe to self, you’re allowed to do that D’Arcy. You possibly can put on a feathered silk gown and lean into your Coolidge,’” Carden joked. “That’s my recommendation for 2023: Lean into your Coolidge. Put on the silk gown.”

The movie can be full of stunts, that includes helicopters, boats and zip-lines (the latter of which was recreated on Hollywood Boulevard for friends to journey down the carpet), which Duhamel mentioned was the spotlight for him.

“A part of what I really like about attending to make films is the motion stuff and attending to do a few of these stunts,” he continued. “It’s a dream of mine, so for me, I by no means felt like every of them had been too loopy. The extra they let me do the higher.”

Producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Lopez’s accomplice of their Nuyorican Productions, mentioned her craziest day, although, was when Lopez was doing a stunt the place her gown will get caught in a Jeep and drags her alongside, however after the shot “the gown didn’t launch. And all of us type of stood there for a second and Jennifer was like, ‘It’s not…!’ It was a second.”

As a result of Lopez and Duhamel are enjoying an everyday couple thrown into these massive motion moments, as a substitute of pros, director Moore mentioned his strategy was “let’s make it seem like a giant James Bond film however the individuals on the heart of it aren’t cops or CIA brokers or Marvel stars, so allow them to learn to determine their energy, and the way do they work collectively as a pair.”

He continued, “Jennifer and Josh knew one another, they’ve identified one another for a very long time, in order that they embraced that and located a approach to break issues down in a means that they had been getting nearer because the film was occurring.”

Shotgun Wedding ceremony begins streaming on Amazon Prime Video Jan. 27.