Dermot Mulroney Wants The Wedding Date Sequel With Debra Messing

Dermot Mulroney is prepared to return to his escorting methods for a sequel of The Marriage ceremony Date — and he can’t consider nobody has requested him but.

Mulroney, 60, gave Us Weekly a powerful “sure” when requested if he’d do one other Marriage ceremony Date film with Debra Messing. “I don’t know why that’s by no means occurred to anyone,” he completely advised Us earlier this month whereas selling season 13 of Chicago Fireplace.

He contemplated, “Are you the primary individual that ever stated that to me?” earlier than letting out fun.

In The Marriage ceremony Date, which hit theaters in 2005, Mulroney performs Nick Mercer, a male escort who Kat Ellis (Messing) pays to be her faux boyfriend for her little sister’s wedding ceremony. Nick accepts the problem — and makes Kat’s ex-fiancé Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield) jealous — however finally finds himself falling for her, and decides to not maintain the cash.

“What do you suppose I’d be charging now?” Mulroney teased, referring to Nick’s payment. In one of many extra memorable scenes, Kat will get money from an ATM throughout a hen celebration as a result of she desires to sleep with Nick and assumes she ought to pay him for his providers.

The couple don’t have intercourse, and Nick is so insulted by the money he finds that he crudely tells Kat, “Simply so you understand, you’re 300 brief.”  The comment causes Kat to answer, “You’re telling me that if one thing occurred final night time, I must pay you $1700! That’s a down cost on a Ford Focus!”

Mulroney recalled the “hilarious line” concerning the automotive, saying it was “fantastically delivered.” He famous that whereas it “form of dates the film” it’s also “a part of its attraction, too.”

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Wanting again on the movie, Mulroney advised Us that it did “one thing phenomenal” as a result of it “grew over time to be much more beloved.”

Credit score for the rom-com changing into a cult basic “goes to Deborah and that tremendous solid and simply that quirky film,” he added.

Mulroney continued to gush over his main girl, saying, “I’ve nothing however love and respect” for Messing, 56.

Whereas Mulroney stated the 2 actors have “touched base just a little bit through the years” their careers have taken them in several instructions.

“I want her a lot love and a lot laughter. We had such an unimaginable time making that film collectively,” he shared, noting, “We’ll be paired collectively for all times within the cosmos and until the top of time.”

Mulroney additionally thanked the followers who’ve dubbed The Marriage ceremony Date as a “consolation film” basic. “It was rediscovered within the age of consolation films the place individuals, I’ll dare say ladies, watch that film time and again,” he teased. “That was, like, a cultural second that we’ve gone via.”

He insisted that watching it again now will “provide you with that magic I used to be speaking about,” and he’s as much as revive it on the massive display screen.

Whereas followers wait to see if The Marriage ceremony Date will get a sequel, they’ll watch Mulroney on Chicago Fireplace. The actor made his debut on the NBC collection Wednesday, September 25, as Chief Dom Pascal.

“It’s been superb. They didn’t pull any punches,” Mulroney advised Us of his intense begin on the drama. “The flip facet of that’s how extremely heat my reception was with the solid. … They actually as a bunch determined to have a lunch with the brand new man on the primary day that we had a bunch scene. I didn’t understand it on the time, however that wound up being actually touching.”

He gushed, “That’s the entire vibe on this [show] that they function as a household. And so they included me proper out of the gate.”

Chicago Fireplace airs on NBC Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET.