What's the film about?

It's the story of a sheep that wandered into the wrong herd! A non-Greek man falls in love with a Greek woman and he has to get baptized Greek Orthodox in order for her family to stop trying to kill him. I took every moment of the last 20 years of my life and I squished it into this screenplay. I took every wedding I've ever been to and stole from it. I just wrote what I knew.

This film started out as a one-woman play. How did it become a movie?

I was doing the stage play in a small theatre in Hollywood and I was trying to get a job out of it. Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson came to the show. They decided they wanted to produce it and turn it into a movie and I got to play the lead.

Why were Tom and Rita so taken by the story?

Well, Rita is Greek and Tom isn't, so they could relate to the idea. Rita has a big fat Greek family of her own and I think they saw a lot of similarities. And they thought, if we're going to make a movie, let's make this one.

You get to star opposite John Corbett from Sex and the City. How was that?

Poor me! John Corbett! He is so short and such a bad kisser... that's all I'm saying. Just kidding! I think that once you find someone you have chemistry with, you want to work with them again. I would work with John again in a heartbeat. There's something about him that is so charismatic. As I wrote the screenplay, I could take his lines, re-write them ten minutes before we shot the scene and he would go "OK baby" and just do it. That's a rare thing.