Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious trip full of love, twists and turns. Opa!
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00:00 I vacation in Greece for years and years and then I get this outlandish idea to make a movie
00:06 Taking the big fat Greek family back to Greece guys. This is gonna be fun. I wrote the script thinking
00:12 There's no way they're gonna let me do it
00:14 But just sometimes if you keep a straight face you get stuff you really do work hard at Greece. Oh, yeah
00:21 The original story was going to be that we go with Michael Constantine's character back to his village
00:29 Is that all my dad ever wanted and then we lost Michael Constantine in the same year that I lost my dad and I?
00:36 Decided to channel grief through my fingertips. I promised my dad I would find his best friend. I know them
00:43 Do they still live here? No
00:45 The way I write is from a place of motivation in every single scene. I asked myself. What does this character want?
00:51 What does that character want?
00:53 I wanted to pay homage to parents because I think in the familial journey that we are all on you
01:00 Start as a child and then you start to parent your parents and then you have to become the parents
01:06 Producers had wanted me to direct the second one
01:09 But I didn't feel that I was ready and the producer Gary Getzman said you know what the difference is between him and you
01:15 He pointed to the director on the second one. He thinks he can do it
01:19 Oh, I'm saying it because it's supposed to be you so I learned and I figured out everything
01:24 I wanted to do and then when they asked me to direct the third one. I very quickly said yes. I am not surprised
01:31 Because I'm never surprised to prepare for the role of Tula. I watched the first two movies
01:37 I tried to match the voice you did that
01:39 I love it that for 20 years the audience has told me that they see their family in my family I
01:46 Am Tula and in so many ways if I am Tula then so are they and I just want them to see themselves
01:53 In this movie again. I felt like the story needs to go on in Greece the homeland
01:58 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:02 [EVIL LAUGH]