Dermot Mulroney in for My Best Friend's Wedding sequel with Julia Roberts: 'I'm there for sure'

My Best Friend's Wedding starts with the lines of a song singing "wishing and hoping and thinking and praying".

And fans "wishing and hoping" for a sequel to the '90s rom-com are having their prayers answered as star of the movie Dermot Mulroney says he'd be up for making part two.

Building on comments made recently by Julia Roberts, 56, labelling it as the film from her past she'd most like to make a sequel of, the 60-year-old actor said: "I'm in".

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"I'm thrilled to hear Julia's finally, you know, coming to her senses," he joked with Entertainment Tonight at the premiere of new movie Anyone But You in New York.

First, last Thursday, Roberts told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that she would like a sequel to visit "how Kimmy and Michael's marriage is going".

The actress again speculated about the film's characters during a chat with Gayle King on CBS Mornings on Monday to promote her latest blockbuster Leave The World Behind.

Speaking of Mulroney's character, Michael; and his wife, Kimmy, played by Cameron Diaz; Roberts told King: "He's married and faithful to his wife".

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Roberts believes her character, Jules; and George, her gay best friend played by Rupert Everett; "start a do-it-yourself show on HGTV and become wildly famous".

Mulroney admits he's been humbled to hear of the Pretty Woman star's comments.

"I was amazed to hear her kind compliments this weekend," he said.

"You know I would love to work with her any day of the week, month or year."

When asked what he thinks has happened to his character, Mulroney revealed he hadn't given it as much thought as Roberts had.

"Oh golly, I don't know - that's not my job," he laughed.

"But if they put that story together, I'm there for sure."

In Mulroney's latest rom-com, set in Australia, he plays father to Sydney Sweeney's character, Bea, with Aussie actress Rachel Griffiths playing his wife and Bea's mother.

Griffiths also starred in My Best Friend's Wedding as one of Kimmy's bridesmaids.

The main cast of the hit film reunited in 2019 for a special Entertainment Weekly shoot, 22 years after the movie first came out in 1997.