Dermot Mulroney presented Julia Roberts with a woman of the decade award at the Guys Choice Awards; in 2001 producer Jerry Zucker discussed a sequel called My Best Friend's Divorce; test audiences found Julia too evil, prompting reshoots that beefed up Rupert Everett; the original ending had Julia meet a John Corbett character; the new ending was shot eight months after wrap with Roberts in a wig over her pixie cut
Dermot Mulroney and Julia Roberts are still very close; he presented her with the woman of the decade award at the Guys Choice Awards, the joke being that nobody else would go; in 2001 there were talks, per producer Jerry Zucker, about My Best Friend's Divorce, with Kimmy and Michael on the verge of a split, which the hosts find extremely believable.
The test audience thought Julia was too evil in the original cut, so reshoots beefed up Rupert Everett's character; in the original ending Julia met a man played by John Corbett with the hope she had found someone, but it did not test well and the audience wanted more of George and more singing.
The hosts do not want Aiden brought in to fix the ending either, poor Aiden being the second choice; a new ending was filmed eight months after the film wrapped, with Roberts back on set in an expensive updo wig covering her recent pixie cut, so she wears a wig in the final cell-phone scene with George.
