‘Shotgun Wedding’ Director Jason Moore Chose Songs To ‘Get People on the Dance Floor’
thewrap.comThere’s a moment in “Shotgun Wedding” where Jennifer Coolidge does what she does best — making a scene feel spontaneous when it’s intentional.Coolidge plays Carol, mother of groom Tom Fowler (Josh Duhamel) who is getting married to Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) at a fancy destination wedding in the Philippines.
Pirates disrupt the painfully planned ceremony, taking the wedding guests hostage to blackmail the father of the bride (Cheech Marin) into giving them a large sum of money.
While the couple’s friends and family are corraled in the pool, Tom buys time by suggesting they get married right then and there.As the hostages line up to create a wedding aisle in the pool, Carol starts belting out the opening lines of Edwin McCain’s “I’ll Be.” Director Jason Moore tells TheWrap why he picked the wedding staple.“It’s like one of the top five wedding songs.
I knew Jennifer Coolidge was going to sing it and I wanted something that felt out of left field,” Moore explained. “Then I wanted the surprise that Renata, Darcy’s mom, also knows the lyrics. ‘I’ll Be’ is one of those songs almost everyone recognizes the chorus but few people recognize the verse before.” Harmonies were decided before the shoot, and the scene was shot 10 days into filming. “We couldn’t really improv it.
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