Jane Nichols Katherine Heigl’s alter ego in27 Dresses is picking out her 29th dress.
Or rather, Heigl is picking it out for her.
“The iPhone was invented.
That’s how long ago it was.”
“Ed, is today your birthday?”
The answers: yes and yes.
Marsden turns to the photographer and explains, “We’re just rehashing some stories.”
“I really related to Jane,” Heigl says of her character.
“My experience [in my 20s] was being a people pleaser, trying to make people happy.
I understood her mind-set.”
“I thought that was an extraordinary, verging on pathological, amount.
For me, the movie was about this phenomenon of women obsessively wanting to yo other people.”
But that wasn’t always pleasing to studio executives.
The whole point of it is that she is your all-purpose friend who drives you to the airport."
“It’s only gotten crazier,” McKenna says.
“Everybody’s entire life is a photo shoot.”
At one of the nuptials she catches the eye of cynical journalist Kevin Doyle (Marsden).
It’s his chance to write the story that could get him a promotion.
“He doesn’t believe in all this s,” Marsden says.
“He doesn’t believe in weddings and commitment.”
If Jane is a good friend, then she’s an even more selfless sister.
(And yes, those incorrect lyrics were scripted, including “electric boobs.")
Over and over again.
The song wasn’t the only thing in contention the film’s ending was as well.
But McKenna didn’t necessarily agree with that.
“I actually always advocated for her to end up on her own,” McKenna says.
Jane is finally the bride.
And years later, it’s the film Akerman gets asked about most.
“I think there'’s a sincerity to the movie that gives it legs.”
But could there be more to this story?
Heigl, for one, wants a sequel.
Do they end up together?
I personally think they did,” she says.
But [Jane and Kevin] can’t get pregnant."
According to Heigl, Fletcher is already interested in the idea.
For a moment, it’s as if the sequel is playing out in real life.
So perhaps Heigl shouldn’t hang up her dress just yet.
