Married since 2000 to actor/writer Daniel Zelman, Messing's definitely not in the market for a male escort. However her "The Wedding Date" co-star Dermot Mulroney claims he's her date from now on. All the cast hit it off while filming in England, and Mulroney's comment was just one of the compliments Messing's co-stars were tossing her way at the film's premiere.
INTERVIEW WITH DEBRA MESSING ('Kat')
Can you talk about your character's dilemma in "The Wedding Date?"
In the movie, my character has to go back to her sister’s wedding and face her ex-fiancée who called off the wedding, without explanation, two years earlier. She’s single and lonely and so in order to face that again, she hires a professional escort to act the besotted boyfriend to make everyone think she’s better off for it.
And then she wishes she didn’t?
(Laughing) Yeah…
Did you enjoy filming in England?
Oh, it was fantastic. Of course, it rained every single day that we shot. And the day that we shot our wedding it was supposed to be in the script a magnificent, sunny, ideal day and, of course, it was a hurricane. So it was challenging. But I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.
This was a tiny, little film shot in 31 days so we were literally dropped down in London and it was like, “Get what you can!” We had rain. We had drunk people throwing beer at us in Leicester Square. We had a drunk woman outside a pub, watching this love scene outside screaming, cheering us on.
So all the Brits you ran into were drunks?
There were a lot of them. We encountered a lot of them (laughing). But they were lovely.
