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)

01:46 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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