Big Stars Celebrate "Our Family Wedding" In Lincoln Center
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"Our Family Wedding" recently premiered at the Sony Lincoln Square Theatre on the Upper West Side. The updated version of "Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story" stars America Ferrera of "Ugly Betty" fame.
"Actually, filming the wedding scenes were my favorite days on set because it did feel like a really good party," says Ferrera. "We cut the cake and we walked down the aisle and we said our vows and in some moments I felt like, 'This is weird. I feel like I'm at a wedding and I'm getting married.'"
Lance Gross plays the lucky groom on the big screen, and coming up in real life he's also going to be a groom.
"Everything went wrong that can go wrong in the movie, so I'm expecting to have a perfect wedding myself hopefully," says Gross. "I know there's always something that's going to go wrong but I hope it's little, like a minor detail, you know."
Gross is relying on his star power to avoid problems with his real-life in-laws.
"That's only when your family is actually paying for the wedding. See, I'm paying for my own wedding, so it's 'our marriage, our wedding,'" says Gross.
Carlos Mencia plays the father of the bride and Forest Whitaker plays the father of the groom.
George Whipple: Now I want to know, in real life, you and Forest in a fight, who wins?
Mencia: Well, you don't know that Forest is a martial arts trained guy, but I'm ghetto. So in a clean fight, he'll win. In a dirty fight, put your money on me, kids. Just saying.
Whipple: He said in a clean fight, you'd win.
Whitaker: I don't know. The whole thing with, like, us going at each other for the whole movie and the battle of verbiage, I'm not sure about whose going win that one!"
Yet at the heart of it all, Mencia is full of admiration and perhaps love for Whitaker.
"He's a great soul, man. If I was a woman, I'd want to marry and fall in love with a guy like him," says Mencia. "As a matter of fact, I want to anyway! I'm just going to throw that out there."
"Our Family Wedding" will be in the Big Apple this weekend.