Exclusive Clip: Nia Vardalos Tests John Corbett With 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' Trivia As They Prepare for the Release of the Third Movie

If you’re fan of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and its sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, you probably already know that the third movie of the franchise is almost upon us! And, to celebrate the upcoming release on September 8, the stars of the movie Nia Vardalos, John Corbett and Andrea Martin came together and tested each other in a game of My Big Fat Greek Wedding trivia!

“I’m going to quiz the cast on fun facts from the first two movies,” Vardalos – who wrote, starred and directed My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 – said in the beginning of the clip. “What is the name of the Portokalos family restaurant?”

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Martin, for her part, was quick to answer. “Dancing Zorbas?” she replies. Ding ding ding!

“What food does Aunt Voula suggest to Ian when he says he’s vegetarian and she’s doing to cook for him?” Vardalos asks, to which Corbett, who plays Ian, responds “Lamb!” Martin then repeats the line like she does in the movie, with her signature Greek accent. “That’s alright, I make lamb,” she says.

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Lastly, Vardalas asks her co-stars, “What dish do Ian’s parents bring when they first meet the Portokalos family?” And Just Like That… star Corbett knew right away. “Bundt cake!” he says.

Editor’s Note: This clip was filmed before the SAG-AFTRA strike began.

In the second sequel of the 2002 hit movie, fans of the Portokalos family will follow their anything-but-quiet dynamic as they travel to Greece to reunite with their father’s (played by Michael Constantine) family from his hometown. “Before he passed away, Toula’s father, Gus, asked her to go to the reunion and meet his old friends to pass on a journal he had kept of his life story,” the description reads. “To honor his memory, the Portokalos family wants to see where their dad grew up.”

According to Nardalos, the story in the third movie was a natural progression both in fiction and in real life. “Soon after filming of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, I began to write the screenplay for the third film,” she says. “I wanted to explore the topic of immigration and as always, the dynamics of family.”

“The genesis of this story is that my dad always wanted us to go to his family village up high in the mountains on the mainland of Greece,” she continues. “But as adults, when my siblings and I would go to Greece, we would always go to the islands because that’s where the parties are. In March, 2020, after a period of failing health, I lost my dad. And very soon after that we lost Michael Constantine, who played my father, Gus. I was grieving and processing both during a pandemic. I began to find a way to manage my grief through my fingertips and the screenplay emerged about us fulfilling a father’s last wish.” What a beautiful story, we can’t wait to watch it in the big screen!

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 hits theaters on September 8.

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