Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan collectively on the large display? ¡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, exhibiting the 2 actors as a pair headed for divorce simply as their oldest little one 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 no Hint”), Chloe Fineman (“Saturday Evening Stay”), Isabela Merced and Macarena Achaga additionally seem within the movie.
“Father of the Bride” was final seen on the silver display in 1991 with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton taking part in the fearful couple on the heart. Hollywood legends Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett had been the primary to tackle the roles in 1950.
“A father performs a giant position 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 trend, the teaser reveals that it was Sophie who acquired down on one knee to suggest to Adan.
“You proposed to him, he didn’t suggest to you. Are you able to do this? Does anybody do this?” the confused dad says as his daughter broadcasts her joyous information.
In one other scene, Garcia and Estefan’s characters bear couple’s counseling in an effort to avoid wasting 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 be taught 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 long run,” 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 Entertainment Weekly about what’s wish to symbolize the Latinx group 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, symbolize it with out stereotypes, in a method that, though it’s culturally particular, its themes are common.”
“The truth that we’re two Latin cultures mixing in that film — to Anglos which may appear bizarre as a result of they may pile us all into one lump, when we’ve got these refined variations,” Estefan chimed in.
“Father of the Bride” shall be saying “I Do” on HBO Max come June 16.
