It’s been nearly 14 years since ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ was released. With a budget of just $5 million, it became one of the most successful independent movies of all time, and one of the highest ever grossing romantic comedies. <br /><br /> Now the sequel is finally hitting the big screen. It’s the brainchild of its star and creator Nia Vardalos who earned an Oscar nomination for the original screenplay. <br /><br /> It was actually my fault that the sequel took so long. They asked me immediately after the first movie to write the sequel and I said no because I had written that Toula was a mum, and I was actually in a very private struggle to become a mum….Happy ending, I became a mum and here we are first day of kindergarten, I was that mum, crying so hard that people were I’m sure backing away from me, and another mother i think in an effort to calm me down said something which put me in a state of panic. She said, “Oh come on, in 13 years they’ll go off to college and leave us.” And I went (gasps)
