“My Best Friend’s Wedding” Almost Got a Big Gay Rom-Com Sequel
"Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but, by god, there'll be dancing."
My Best Friend's Wedding stars Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, and Rupert Everett recently reunited for Entertainment Weekly's romantic comedy issue and shared behind-the-scenes scoop on the 1997 film, which grossed $127 million at the domestic box office.
My Best Friend’s Wedding memorably ended with Julianne (Roberts), having failed to steal friend Michael (Mulroney) away from fiancée Kimmy (Diaz), dancing instead with gay pal George (Everett).
"The whole end is so wonderful and tragic in a way," Everett says. "I think George and Julianne are a little bit like Will and Grace."
"We’re not living together. But I live across the street," Roberts quips.
But more than two decades before Billy Eichner's gay rom-com announcement, George and Julianne nearly became the focus of a mainstream sequel featuring a gay wedding.
“We did have some discussion about a sequel,” director P.J. Hogan tells EW. “I remember talking to Julia about it. It was something about Rupert was going to get married and she was going to break up their wedding. I thought that would’ve been fun, but I don’t think we could find a way to bring all those characters back.”
Say a little prayer that it could still happen!
Everett, an out 59-year-old actor also known for gay roles in Another Country and The Next Best Thing, recently played Oscar Wilde in his directorial debut, The Happy Prince.