Michael: I've seen you a lot more naked than this.
Julianne: Yes...but things are...different now.
"There is so much going on between people who really care about each other. For Michael, it's about the pull between an old friendship and a new love, about attempting to say good-bye to something comfortable and embracing the new -- exciting, but untested. And it is about the chaos when two of your special relationships collide. There's something bittersweet about the necessary struggle of rearranging your life from time to time, especially when you marry. I think this story conveys that emotion so well, just as it captures the panic that is part and parcel of every wedding."
"I knew Dermot from my wife's (director Jocelyn Moorhouse) film, How To Make an American Quilt. The unfailing response to his charm, humor and strength was not lost on me. It is entirely believable that two magnificent women would battle for him."
"In a way, Dermot had the hardest job of all, because he's the puzzled straight man who observes all this madness rolling around him. But Dermot has a quiet strength and integrity that make you realize why these great women are fighting for him."
"One of the reasons I cast him is that he was not the least bit intimidated by Julia...Dermot came in, looked her in the eye and made her want him."
On asked whether he dies in My Best Friend's Wedding:
"I don't croak. I've done a little less croaking lately. In The Trigger Effect I got shot, but I survived. I thought that was a step in thr right direction. But then I did Kansas City and was thoroughly disemboweled."
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED
Actor Dermot Mulroney gets to be the not-so-obscure object of desire in the current romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding.
"Here I am in a movie where both Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz are fighting over my affections. I know a lot of guys wouldn't mind being in my position,"says Mulroney, 33. "I knew Julia was cast when I got the movie, and I said, `She's after me in the script? I've got to lie down. Give me a damp towel.' " In real life, though, Mulroney is strictly a one-woman man, having been hitched to actress Catherine Keener (Walking and Talking) for nearly seven years. "We met on a film in 1987 [Survival Quest] and were friends for quite some time before we got married," says Mulroney. "She was my best friend and, yes, we had a wedding."
