It’s been 6 years since Girls Trip hit theaters, and fans are eager to see the sequel. However, they may not be as eager to see it as Regina Hall. Hall recently did an interview with PEOPLE about her partnership with Jameson Irish Whiskey. Her partnership comes just in time for St. Patrick’s day. However, in the interview, Girls Trip inevitably came up. She says the film’s long-awaited sequel was initially delayed because the cast and crew of the film were “busy.” “So then,” she continued, “when you lock in the time — when you’re like, ‘Oh, we can do it now’ — [the COVID-19] pandemic comes. And then it’s like, ‘Well, we’ve got to wait.’”
Hall insists that people were waiting for things to calm down professionally before the pandemic hit. Then, they would do a sequel “if it made sense.” She added, “Because that whole film is about friendship and celebration.” The hit comedy film starred Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish with Hall as four college friends. The quad travels to New Orleans for Essence Music Festival to reignite their friendship years after they graduated.
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Tracy Oliver, the film’s co-screenwriter, told Variety at the Sundance Film Festival in January that the upcoming sequel will take place in Ghana during the Afrochella music festival. Hall says that she found this out “in real-time with everyone else.” When discussing it, Hall said she’s assuming that will be fun. She said, “I’m excited to see the girls again and to make something hopefully that the fans love.” She added, “I think the biggest thing is we had so much fun making the first one, and I just look forward to just having that kind of fun again and that audiences will hopefully love it as well.” Additionally, Hall says that one of the complications that COVID-19 caused is that “You can’t have a film that interactive in the middle of a pandemic. It’s about being out and about. So I think that kind of changed it too.”
Furthermore, Will Packer, producer of Girls Trip, announced that the sequel was in the works during an appearance on Good Morning America last January. Packer told Good Morning America host, Michael Strahan, “Can’t we all use a post-pandemic trip, my friend? I think that the time is actually right, and this is something that I will tell you and break right now at GMA: the Girls Trip 2 sequel, we are underway. We are absolutely in the stages, the ladies are in, I just talked to the director.”
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