Hollywood sweetheart Jennifer Aniston had a great time on the sets of her film ‘Murder Mystery 2.’ The movie, which features an Indian maharajah, allowed the actress to gorge on Indian food and wear a “beautiful” Manish Malhotra lehenga. Aniston wore an ivory chikankari lehenga created by the Indian fashion designer for a wedding sequence in the Netflix movie. It took approximately three months to create and was picked by renowned Hollywood costume designer Debra Mcguire for the actress.
Aniston described the attire as “beautiful” but surprisingly heavy. She said in a virtual roundtable interview, “It was a beautiful, beautiful dress. It was extremely heavy and I wasn’t expecting that. So much respect for all the beautiful women of India who have to not only wear it, but dance their b** off. We had a really good time.”
The new Netflix movie is a sequel to 2019’s ‘Murder Mystery,’ which followed married couple Nick (Adam Sandler) and Audrey Spitz, who get caught up in a murder investigation on a billionaire’s yacht. The second part lifts off four years after the events of the first film in the comedy mystery franchise. The couple is now full-time detectives struggling to get their private eye agency off the ground when they are invited to celebrate their friend's wedding, the Maharaja, on his private island.
Aniston said they shot the wedding scene for three days in Hawaii. Aniston and Sandler, who are real-life friends and share great chemistry on screen, also completed each other’s sentences in the roundtable interview. She said, “We had five days to shoot that scene,” Sandler added, “And dance and eat Indian food.”
When asked if a third part would follow in the franchise, Sandler said they are yet to take a call on that but added that he would love to come to India someday. "I've never been to India. I would love to be there. My friends have been there. They show me pictures, videos, it looks incredible. We'll talk (about 'Murder Mystery 3') once that (topic) comes, we'll figure it out. But that would be fun," the actor said.
Also starring Mark Strong, Melanie Laurent, Jodie Turner-Smith, John Kani, Kuhoo Verma, Enrique Arce, and Zurin Villanueva with Dany Boon, "Murder Mystery 2" began streaming on Netflix on March 31.