“Shotgun Wedding” talks about making Jennifer Lopez’s dress for action film

• Her character spends the majority of the new romantic-action comedy wearing her wedding dress.
• As their guests begin to arrive for their destination wedding on a picture-perfect Philippine island.
• The history of the wedding dress is that it formerly belonged to her future mother-in-law Carol.

In Shotgun Wedding on Prime Video, Jennifer Lopez (Marry Me, Maid in Manhattan) portrays a young bride thrown into a situation. Her character spends the majority of the new romantic-action comedy wearing her wedding dress, which needs to be flawless for revealing all the “blood, sweat, and filth” during her action-packed adventure since her big day is hijacked by gun-wielding pirates.

As their guests begin to arrive for their destination wedding on a picture-perfect Philippine island, Josh Duhamel’s character Tom and Jennifer Lopez’s character Darcy (from the movies Safe Haven and Transformers) start to have second thoughts. The arguing pair in the movie scripted by Mark Hammer (Two Night Stand) and directed by Jason Moore (the Pitch Perfect franchise) must put their differences aside to save their romance and the hostage-taking wedding guests.

Finding the ideal hue for the garment was crucial owing to all the physical fighting, explosions, and sand it would have to resist, according to costume designer Mitchell Travers, who previously collaborated with Lopez on Hustlers. The history of the wedding dress is that it formerly belonged to her future mother-in-law Carol, who is portrayed by Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus, A Cinderella Story), so while Travers was choosing the ideal shade for the gown, he researched how vintage wedding costumes age.

“I started looking at what happens to them over time,” Travers said. “What a 20-year-old dress would look like, a 40-year-old dress and they have this lovely patina that starts to happen and they yellow with age. When you work with JLo, we don’t do that. We went to a nice warm rose or as I call it, ‘warm blush.’”

Travers continued, saying that the dress “has to be indicative of how she’s evolving and what she’s learning” and that it is “going through as much as the bride.” Seven separate iterations of the dress were made for the movie, and each one underwent a number of building and dismantling stages, such as removing the train, sleeves, or skirt as the action progressed. “Twenty to thirty layers of the stretch net were used to make the dresses. Regarding the suitable fabric chosen for the custom-made outfit, Travers stated, “It’s kind of like a superhero costume that looks like a wedding dress. It enables her to move her arms and legs and bend her body.

In addition to Lopez, Duhamel, and Coolidge, Shotgun Wedding’s cast also includes Sonia Braga, Selena Tan, Callie Hernandez, D’Arcy Carden, Cheech Marin, and rock icon Lenny Kravitz, who plays Darcy’s endearing ex-fiance, Sean.

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