Andrew Rannells is right down to dive into extra onscreen drama and suspense with Anna Kendrick and Blake Energetic.
“Effectively, [director] Paul Feig is at all times developing with one thing,” Rannells, 46, solely instructed Us Weekly of a possible third installment within the A Easy Favor movie collection on the New York Metropolis particular screening of his new film, I Don’t Perceive You, on Monday, June 2. “He doesn’t do sequels. He form of broke his personal rule to do that sequel.”
As for whether or not he would return for a possible third film? “one hundred pc,” Rannells instructed Us, including that he hopes it could happen someplace “as lovely as Italy.”
Rannells returned as Darren, a good friend of Kendrick’s Stephanie, in One other Easy Favor, which premiered on Prime Video final month. Set 5 years after the occasions of 2018’s A Easy Favor, the sequel sees Emily (Energetic) coerce Stephanie into being the maid of honor at her Italian wedding ceremony beneath the specter of submitting a lawsuit for the e book Stephanie revealed concerning the first movie’s occasions.
The marriage journey doesn’t go to plan, as drama stirs between Emily’s fiancé’s (Michele Morrone) household and their organized crime rivals, relations from Emily’s previous carry new secrets and techniques to mild and a homicide thriller ignites.
Rannell’s newest film, I Don’t Perceive You, shares many similarities with One other Easy Favor, as each are set in Italy and observe characters wrapped up in harmful and surprising circumstances.
The movie stars Rannells and Nick Kroll as a pair seeking to undertake a toddler who journey overseas for a romantic babymoon. After winding up at a distant restaurant, issues go south once they by accident kill somebody. Chaos ensues as they attempt to cowl up the crime.
Bashir Salahuddin, Alex Newell, Andrew Rannells, Aparna Nancherla and Kelly McCormack in ‘One other Easy Favor’ Lorenzo Sisti /© Amazon Prime Video /Courtesy Everett Assortment
“Brian Crano and David Craig, who wrote and directed the film, simply crafted this actually wild experience of a script that actually, after I began studying it, I used to be like, ‘Oh, it’s like a rom-com for Nick and I, like a homosexual rom-com. And we’re in Italy and that’s enjoyable and it’ll be actual fairly,’” Rannells instructed Us on the movie’s screening. “After which we began murdering individuals. I didn’t see that coming.”
He added, “I do know the viewers is aware of that there’s some homicide concerned, however yeah, it was an actual twist. And it was a pleasant reminder that, what, homosexual individuals can kill individuals too. It’s equality. It’s all about equality.”
Rannells might relate to his character getting near attaining a objective earlier than it fell aside, telling Us that an ex of his broke up with him simply days earlier than the 2011 Tony Awards, the place he carried out and was nominated for Greatest Actor in a Musical for his function in The Guide of Mormon.
“I nonetheless needed to take him to the Tonys as a result of I used to be so overwhelmed,” he recalled. “And, looking back, that was not the suitable resolution, however I used to be so overwhelmed by I needed to carry out, and also you’re doing the present in the course of the day, and I used to be like, ‘You realize what? Simply nonetheless include me, I suppose. We each have these tuxedos.’ But it surely was such an thrilling, thrilling second for me personally, professionally, after which [it was] heartbreaking.”
I Don’t Perceive You is in theaters now.