Julia Roberts confirmed that she’s been in talks about possibly starring in a sequel to “My Best Friend’s Wedding.”
“They’re talking to me,” Roberts said in Variety‘s cover story on “After the Hunt,” the Luca Guadagnino-directed psychological thriller starring Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, and Chloë Sevigny.
During the interview, Guadagnino chimed in that he would direct Roberts in a “My Best Friend’s Wedding” sequel “in a second.”
News broke in July that a “My Best Friend’s Wedding” sequel was in early development, with “Past Lives” and “Materialists” filmmaker Celine Song attached to pen a screenplay for the project — though she was not in talks to direct.
The development news came shortly after Dermot Mulroney, who starred in the 1997 original alongside Roberts, teased to the New York Post that “there is talk of a sequel.”
“My Best Friend’s Wedding” starred Julia Roberts as food critic Julianne Potter, who discovers that her longtime friend Michael O’Neal (Mulroney) — with whom she once made a pact to marry if they were still single at 28 — is getting married. Realizing that she’s in love with Michael, Julianne plans to sabotage the ceremony. Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett also starred in the rom-com.
The 1997 original earned $127 million in North America and ranked as the ninth-highest-grossing domestic release of that year.
It also earned three Golden Globe nominations and, in 2022 Variety ranked the pic as one of the 100 greatest movies of all time.
On the horizon, Roberts stars in “After the Hunt” as Alma Olsson, a college professor who gets caught in the middle of a sexual abuse accusation involving one of her students and a colleague. The film premieres in theaters October 10.
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