How ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’ Helped Nia Vardalos ‘Channel Grief’ (Exclusive)
How ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’ Helped Nia Vardalos ‘Channel Grief’ (Exclusive)
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 A lot has happened since my Big Fat Greek Wedding.
00:05 We're going to Greece.
00:07 Oh yeah.
00:08 I get this outlandish idea
00:11 that we're suddenly going to make a movie
00:14 taking the Big Fat Greek family back to Greece.
00:16 The whole family's coming, which is fantastic.
00:19 Everybody sing!
00:21 Only ET can take you behind the scenes
00:23 of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.
00:25 This time, Neha Vardalos is not only the writer and star,
00:29 she's the director.
00:30 Ready?
00:31 Everybody go, go!
00:34 It was very, very fun 'cause everyone's like a family.
00:37 'Cause it's like directing your cousins,
00:38 but they were wonderful.
00:39 Cut there.
00:40 The film, in theaters September 8th,
00:42 shot in Athens, Corfu, and other island coasts.
00:45 It's a 10 ring circus, not a three ring circus,
00:47 and I haven't seen her even get close to cracking.
00:50 I crack and I'll yell,
00:52 "Hey, we need everybody's attention!"
00:55 And she'll just calmly say,
00:57 "I'm gonna need everyone's attention right now."
00:59 And I don't know how she has to go berserk,
01:01 but she's really good at it.
01:03 You got it, everybody!
01:04 The film was dedicated to the late Michael Constantine,
01:07 who played patriarch Gus.
01:09 Get married, make babies.
01:12 You look so old!
01:15 Neha says she wrote it with his blessing.
01:17 We, of course, lost Michael Constantine
01:20 in the same year that I lost my dad.
01:22 And I decided to just channel grief
01:26 through my fingertips.
01:28 It's hard for me actually to even speak about him
01:30 in past tense because he's so much a part of us.
01:32 Joey has a brand new tattoo.
01:34 It says, "There you go, Gus."
01:36 There you go.
01:36 It has the Greek flag.
01:37 Greek flag and Gus.
01:38 So we feel his energy and he's in the story.
01:42 And now it's on my leg.
01:43 Oh, there you go.
01:44 (upbeat music)
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