Say a little prayer for this.
Dermot Mulroney has officially confirmed that “there is talk of a sequel” to his 1997 modern classic rom-com, “My Best Friend’s Wedding.”
“I know nothing about it. Last I heard, quote, lawyers were talking, unquote,” he exclusively told The Post while promoting his Netflix show “The Hunting Wives.”
“My Best Friend’s Wedding” followed NYC-based food critic Julianne “Jules” Potter (Julia Roberts) who had an agreement with her friend Michael O’Neal (Mulroney) that they’d marry each other, if they both stayed unmarried by 28.
Unfortunately for Jules, Michael informs her that he’s marrying Kimmy Wallace (Cameron Diaz).
A heartbroken Jules, who realizes she’s in love with Michael, goes to the wedding with her gay friend George (Rupert Everett) posing as her pretend fiancé — and schemes to break up the couple.
The P.J. Hogan-directed movie ends on a bittersweet note, with Jules accepting that Michael is happy with Kimmy, as George supports her.
“Oh my gosh, the whole thing was a dream,” Mulroney, 61, recalled of filming the movie.
“I knew even when I got the audition for it with Julia, like waiting in line with a whole bunch of other guys and I got the role,” he told The Post. “I knew – and all of Hollywood knew – it was going to be an exceptional movie.”
What stands out the most to Mulroney is his “lasting friendship with Julia” and “credible connection with Rupert, Cameron and [Hogan] on the filming.”
“You can do a really tragic dramatic movie and still have tons of fun,” the “Family Stone” star added, “but I’ll never forget those days in Chicago on that [movie].”
Mulroney, who is also in the long-running NBC series “Chicago Fire,” explained: “I’ve returned to Chicago so many times, and [the memories from that movie] just keeps coming back to me. It has been a big part of my life.”
He added, “It was a life-altering experience, there’s no other way to describe it.”
The cast of the film reunited for an Entertainment Weekly photo shoot in 2019.
“I just thought it was really clever and just funny. All the physical comedy I loved. Lots of falling down and falling through things, falling all over myself, falling over Dermot,” Roberts, 57, said at the time. “The scene, for me, that made it feel so authentic and earnest is when I finally tell Dermot’s character, ‘Pick me. Let me make you happy.’ Just that line: That’s just so succinct and sweet and meaningful.”
Diaz, 52, quipped: “I got to work with these folks and Julia. It was, like, a huge break for me.”
“My Best Friend’s Wedding” opened to $21 million and ultimately ranked in a domestic gross of $127 million.
