Michelle Monaghan - Talks 'Made of Honour'

25 September 2008

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Weddings and 'Made of Honour' Michelle Monaghan

What a lovely feel good movie.

Thank you. I thought so too.You had great chemistry with Patrick. Yeah, come on, if you can’t have chemistry with Patrick Dempsey you’re in a whole lot of trouble! (Laughs) He was on board and I read the script, I really really liked the script. I think the thing that interested me first of all was the idea that I actually have a best friend and he’s a guy and he was my maid of honor at our wedding. So that was cool. Alright finally somebody is getting it! He didn’t break up our wedding at the eleventh hour so that was good. But I hadn’t done a fully fledged romantic comedy so that was something on my list of things I wanted to do and Patrick seemed like the natural choice. I had been a fan of Grey’s Anatomy for a long time and when I sat down to meet with Patrick for the first time and with Paul Weiland (director), he was just so charming. He’s just so down to earth and easy going and self deprecating. He has a really great sense of humor and we really got on very very well. We auditioned and it was great. We just improvised and we had a lot of fun. I think there wasn’t any doubt that we weren’t going to have a good time making the film. We really did.

How was your own wedding, because you married in Australia right?

It was in Port Douglas.

So did they do any Australian traditions like they did in Scotland in this film?

No, there wasn’t any like vegemite appetizers or anything like that. We didn’t have anything strange to eat like in the film. (Laughs) You know what we had for our dessert was Crockinbush. They are like little balls and they are delicious. It might just be a Queensland thing.

How big was your wedding?

Eighty people. So it was fairly small. All of my family and friends came over from the States. It was kind of like a week long full of festivities. It was really nice.

What was your dress like?

The dress was very simple. It was just white and it was a dress that I’d found in a flea market years ago, but it was green, so I had a friend make it in white and that was it. So that’s why I liked this movie, because I never actually went wedding dress shopping for my own wedding dress and I had got to try on a lot of different wedding dresses in this film, so that was fun.

Did your friend who was your maid of honor enjoy the film?

He loved it. I took him the other night actually and he really loved the film. He thought it was really sweet and really cute.

Did he think it was a realistic film?

I mean it wasn’t realistic in the fact that we never had a romantic relationship. But I think the friendship is very similar to ours.

Are you a very romantic person?

I think so. I think I can always be a little bit more romantic I suppose. I don’t know I think I’m fairly romantic I guess.

So would you leave your duke at the altar for your best friend?

The one thing that I do get in this movie is that I sort of relate to the idea of her meeting this guy and six weeks later, she’s marrying him. Who would you ultimately want to marry? Someone you had just met or someone you have a history with?