‘Father of the Bride’ Stars Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia on Their Real-Life Rom-Com Moments (Exclusive)

Gloria Estefan is hitting the big screen in her first-ever cinematic leading role, starring in Father of the Bride, a new remake of the beloved family story that centers the chaos of a wedding weekend in a colorful Cuban family.

Only ET spoke with Estefan and her co-stars as Father of the Bride closed out the Latino International Film Festival in Los Angeles earlier this month, and she raved about getting the opportunity to star as the mother of the film’s titular bride, played by Adria Arjona, opposite legendary leading man Andy Garcia.

“I moved everything around to make it happen, ‘cause I I was pretty busy last year, but I was not gonna miss that opportunity,” Estefan shared with ET’s Nischelle Turner. “It felt like, if I was gonna be in my first leading role it couldn’t be with anyone other than Andy. It was phenomenal.”

Garcia had to agree. “Jeremy Kleiner, our other producer, said, ‘Who do you think can play your wife?'” he recalled to ET. “I said, ‘There’s only one person to play my wife.'”

The casting was crucial, particularly for Estefan, who shares her first-ever on-screen kiss with Garcia in the movie. In fact, it was her first kiss with someone other her husband, Emilio Estefan, in the 47 years they’ve been married!  

Estefan told ET that her husband has seen the film — and the kiss — but joked, “I banished him from the entire state when we were gonna shoot it, ‘cause I’m going, ‘Oh my god!'”

“But no, I mean, it wasn’t me kissing Andy, it was Ingrid kissing Billy,” she clarified, using their characters’ names, “so that’s a different thing.”