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Regina Hallis “excited” to get started onGirls Trip 2!
While speaking with PEOPLE recently abouther team-up with Jameson Irish Whiskeyahead of St. Patrick’s Day, Hall, 52, says that she “found out in real-time with everyone else” that theupcoming sequel will take place in Ghana, as co-screenwriter Tracy Oliver toldVarietyat the Sundance Film Festival in January.
“So I’m assuming that that’s going to be fun,” Hall says. “I’m excited to see the girls again and to make something hopefully that the fans love. 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.”
Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Haddish and Regina Hall inGirls Trip(2017).Short/Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock
“You can’t have a film that interactive in the middle of a pandemic. It’s about being out and about,” Hall says. “So I think that kind of changed it too.”
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Oliver also confirmed toVarietyin January thatGirls Trip 2will feature the characters at Ghana’s annual Afrochella music festival.
Back in January 2022,Girls Tripproducer Will Packer firstannounced that a sequel to the hit 2017 comedy was “underway"during an appearance onGood Morning America.
“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 atGMA: theGirls Trip 2sequel, we are underway,” Packer told host Michael Strahan during the broadcast at the time.
source: people.com
