Lead Weddings is the new Prime Video original movie, starring a great cast headed by Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel. The plot begins with a trip to a paradise island where a couple and family will attend a wedding, but in the middle of the celebration, plans change. diary today was able to talk with Steve Coulterwho plays Duhamel’s father in the proposal.
In Lead Weddings, Darcy (Lopez) and Tom (Duhamel) reunite their loving but headstrong families for the ultimate honeymoon trip, just as the couple begin to regret it. As if that weren’t enough to threaten the festivities, suddenly the lives of everyone in attendance are in danger, when they become hostages. “Till death do us part” takes on a new meaning.
—When did you know you wanted to be an actor?
—Living in Colombia when I was around 12 years old I went to the theater and saw a play where I lived, in a neighborhood with Colombians, Americans, Canadians and some Swiss. Although now I don’t remember what production it was, I was very embarrassed but I wanted to do it. So I started making small works with my friends and later with a super 8 camera we made like mini movies.
—And what were you doing in Colombia? Why were you in Colombia at that age?
—My father worked for the Alcán aluminum company and we lived from when I was four or five years old, until I was 13 years old. All my friends were Colombian. I had a friend from Costa Rica, but Costa Rican people speak very fast. In Argentina and Colombia they speak a little more slowly. I like that.
—Then you returned to Canada and there you had the decision, you already had the goal of being an actor, you wanted to study. How were the steps?
—After Colombia, I went to Cleveland, Ohio, a huge difference. Because my friends in Colombia were more relaxed. In the United States it was very different. But they had a drama club. So after high school I enrolled in the North Carolina School of the Arts. There you played Shakespeare, there were people dancing and singing in different accents and dialects. After this I went to New York, I lived in New York in 1981, which was very dangerous, very dirty, a complicated stage of the city. I was in a neighborhood where families were Dominican. There I was able to practice my Spanish. Later I went to Atlanta, Georgia, where I live until now.
—Going to the movie, how was the filming? Because it is a very large cast, beyond the two leading stars, there are many characters and at first, as a viewer, it is difficult to identify them.
—My agent called me and said: “Do you want to make a movie with Jennifer López?” And I replied: “OK”. Then she added: “Do you want to go shoot in the Dominican Republic for two months?” And I said, “OK.” Finally, she added: “Jennifer Coolidge is going to play your wife.” And I said, “OK.” And the Dominican Republic is so beautiful, it is true that we are in the Caribbean.
—Did they shoot it in a pandemic?
—Yes, but we were like a bubble, a summer camp, with the family, like a vacation, with great actors, like Cheech Marin, who is very experienced and very intelligent. In addition to Coolidge, there was also Sonia Braga, a queen, star of Kiss of the Spider Woman, and I was in love with her, because she is funny, intelligent, and political. It was a dream job and I got paid to do it, a funny comedy, so it was a treat.
“If you had to invite people to see Lead Weddings, why would they have to?”
—Because it is an adventure, there is love, action, a lot of blood, hand grenades, it has everything, and it is a film that in these times when there is a lot of anger, gives you two hours to have fun, a very entertaining adventure.