Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan collectively on the large display screen? ¡Qué bueno!
The 2 Latino icons will co-star in a Latinx remake of the traditional rom-com “Father of the Bride.”
A new teaser for the upcoming household comedy dropped on Monday, displaying the 2 actors as a pair headed for divorce simply as their oldest baby is about to tie the knot herself.
The story takes viewers into 2022 Miami and revolves round a Cuban-American household led by Garcia, 66, as Billy, and Estefan, 64, as Ingrid.
The pair-on-the-rocks are in for a wild journey when their daughter Sophie (Adria Arjona) marries into a really wealthy Mexican-American household, helmed by her fiancé Adan (Diego Boneta). Enrique Murciano (“With out a Hint”), Chloe Fineman (“Saturday Evening Dwell”), Isabela Merced and Macarena Achaga additionally seem within the movie.
“Father of the Bride” was final seen on the silver display screen in 1991 with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton taking part in the apprehensive couple on the middle. Hollywood legends Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett had been the primary to tackle the roles in 1950.
“A father performs an enormous function in his daughter’s life. It’s a particular bond that solely they share,” Garcia displays within the two-minute clip. “And even when she grows up, she’s nonetheless ‘Daddy’s Little Lady.’ ”
In true twenty first century vogue, the teaser reveals that it was Sophie who received down on one knee to suggest to Adan.
“You proposed to him, he didn’t suggest to you. Are you able to try this? Does anybody try this?” the confused dad says as his daughter publicizes her joyous information.
In one other scene, Garcia and Estefan’s characters endure couple’s counseling in an effort to save lots of their marriage. “We’re speculated to play the proper household till Sofie will get married?” Estefan asks her soon-to-be ex-husband.
Collectively they study to placed on a courageous face for his or her daughter’s large day. “Issues have been coming at me very quick. It’s time for me to embrace the longer term,” says our father of the bride.
The “Godfather: Half III” actor and the “Conga” singer beforehand starred collectively within the 2000 made-for-television biopic about jazz musician Arturo Sandoval, “For Love or Nation.”
Forward of the trailer’s launch, the 2 spoke to Leisure Weekly about what’s wish to characterize the Latinx neighborhood with this reboot.
“There was each an honor and an obligation to ship a narrative that’s inside the Latin cultures, on this case, the Cuban and the Mexican, attempting to narrate to at least one one other,” Garcia famous. “There’s an obligation to do it proper, characterize it with out stereotypes, in a means that, though it’s culturally particular, its themes are common.”
“The truth that we’re two Latin cultures mixing in that film — to Anglos that may appear bizarre as a result of they could pile us all into one lump, when now we have these delicate variations,” Estefan chimed in.
“Father of the Bride” might be saying “I Do” on HBO Max come June 16.
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