Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston Talk Netflix Sequel 'Murder Mystery 2'
Moviefone speaks with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston about 'Murder Mystery 2.' "I didn't love hanging from the Eiffel Tower," she said of doing her own stunts.
Premiering on Netflix March 31st is the sequel to the popular film ‘Murder Mystery,’ entitled ‘Murder Mystery 2,’ which was directed by Jeremy Garelick (‘The Wedding Ringer’).
What is the plot of ‘Murder Mystery 2?’
Four years after the events of 'Murder Mystery,' Nick (Adam Sandler) and Audrey Spitz (Jennifer Aniston) are now full-time detectives struggling to get their private eye agency off the ground when they’re invited to celebrate the wedding of their friend the Maharaja (Adeel Akhtar) on his private island.
But trouble follows the Spitzes again when the groom is kidnapped for ransom soon after the festivities begin ― making each glamorous guest, family member, and the bride herself a suspect. Now, Nick and Audrey Spitz are on a high-stakes case that could finally give them everything they’ve ever dreamed of: a shot at their detective agency finally becoming successful and a long-awaited trip to Paris.
Who is in the cast of ‘Murder Mystery 2?’
‘Murder Mystery 2’ stars Adam Sandler (‘Happy Gilmore,’ ‘The Wedding Singer’) as Nick Spitz, and Jennifer Aniston (‘Horrible Bosses,’ ‘We’re the Millers’) as Audrey Spitz, as well as Mark Strong (‘Shazam!’), Mélanie Laurent (‘Now You See Me’), Jodie Turner-Smith (‘Queen & Slim’), Tony Goldwyn (‘Ghost’), Annie Mumolo (‘Confess, Fletch’), Enrique Arce (‘Terminator: Dark Fate’), and Wilmer Valderrama (‘Larry Crowne’).
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in person about their work on ‘Murder Mystery 2,’ reuniting together, reprising their roles, and the movie’s action sequences.
(L to R) Jennifer Aniston as Audrey Spitz and Adam Sandler as Nick Spitz in 'Murder Mystery 2.' Photo: Scott Yamano/Netflix © 2022.
You can read our full interview below or slick on the video player above to watch our interviews with Sandler and Aniston, Jodie Turner-Smith, Enrique Arce, and director Jeremy Garelick.
Moviefone: To begin with, how much more challenging were the stunts in this sequel compared to the first ‘Murder Mystery?’
Adam Sandler: I'd say 86% more?
Jennifer Aniston: 90% more. Were we physical? I mean, what did we do in (the first) movie? We ran down a flight of stairs and drove a car.
AS: How about the worst part of shooting a scene where you have to walk downstairs is you've got to walk back up to do it again.
(L to R) Jennifer Aniston as Audrey Spitz and Adam Sandler as Nick Spitz in 'Murder Mystery 2.' Photo: Scott Yamano/Netflix © 2023.
MF: What was the toughest stunt to do in this film?
JA: The van stuff was hard. The van stuff was just (challenging) because it was so many pieces, and the Eiffel Tower (scene). I didn't love hanging from that, it was high up.
AS: There was a lot of jumping around, getting hit, and punching. Axes were involved. What about the shot of me and you when we go out the window and we're going down, we were in that little machine holding each other.
JA: That was this crazy machine and the camera didn't move.
AS: You remember when we go out the window and fall into the moat?
JA: Fully. That was a crazy contraption and I don't know who came up with it. But that was actually you and me.
AS: Some of the glass is CGI, but us falling out and going down, that was old me and Jenny.
JA: The fire scene, though, was physically hard for me personally, just because there were fumes from the fire, fumes from the atmosphere smoke and the ambience, but it looks really beautiful. Then I had some crazy allergic reaction and I woke up and I couldn't see. Anyway, I didn't have to work the next day, so I got a day to get that back together.
(L to R) Zurin Villanueva as Imani, Melanie Laurent as Claudette Joubert and Jodie Turner-Smith as Countess 'Murder Mystery 2.' Photo: Scott Yamano/Netflix © 2023.
MF: Finally, can you talk about the big dance number in the movie? I understand that you were not told ahead of time that it was a dance sequence or shown any of the choreography. What were you told you would be filming before the cameras started rolling?
JA: Well, we were told that there's a dance, “Get ready for the dance,” and he had received an email that he forgot to tell me about. So, we were informed in some way.
AS: (We knew) it was going to be a dance. We just didn't know what the dance was.
JA: I thought I would stay out of the way. (But I was) dragged into it.
AS: We wanted to make it real that we didn't know what it was, so we jumped in there and we did a few takes of that.
(L to R) Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston star in Netflix's 'Murder Mystery 2.'
Other Movies Similar to ‘Murder Mystery 2:’
- 'Deathtrap' (1982)
- 'Clue' (1985)
- 'Just Go with It' (2011)
- 'Murder Mystery' (2019)
- 'Knives Out' (2019)
- 'Murder on the Orient Express' (2017)
- 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' (2022)
- 'Death on the Nile' (2022)
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'Murder Mystery 2' is produced by Happy Madison Productions, Endgame Entertainment, Echo Films, and Vinson Films, and scheduled for release on Netflix March 31st.
