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Jennifer Coolidge can currently be seen alongside Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel in the Prine Video comedy “Shotgun Wedding,” and in a new interview, she talks about her own experience attending real-life weddings.
Joined by co-star Steve Coulter (who plays her character’s husband in the film), she was asked by Hits Radio’s Olivia Marks about the “craziest wedding” she had ever attended.
“I think the best wedding I’ve ever been to was…I got this invitation when I was in this comedy band, The Groundlings, and we all got it. It was a kind of marriage-sharing where you brought a dish,” she recalls.
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According to Coolidge, the nuptials took place in “a beautiful canyon in Malibu,” where she and the other guests spent the evening dancing downright.
“It was the most fun I’ve ever had at a wedding. I’ve been to all these fancy weddings where people spend millions of dollars and things like that…it was just the most unique wedding and the more natural, ”she said before revealing the identity of the bride and groom.
“That’s the cool part of the story – it was two people who [had] had known each other for a very long time and got married,” she shared. “They had known each other for 12 years. They gave birth to two children after their marriage… their daughter is Billie Eilish and their son is Finneas.
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Coulter was stunned by the revelation, as he is apparently also friends with the couple. “Do you know Patrick and Maggie?” We need to talk,” he said.
“I will never forget that wedding,” Coolidge added. “A deer family showed up while they were having a wedding [and] stood in the background. It was the most romantic thing I know.