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Tiffany Haddish is dishing about Girls Trip 2.
While stepping out to the PEOPLE and InStyle Drive-By F1 Party in Las Vegas on Friday, Nov. 21, the Bad Boys: Ride or Die star teased what fans can expect from the highly anticipated sequel to the 2017 film, which also stars Regina Hall, Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith. She also revealed that the women will be heading to another fun location.
“I don’t know exactly where we’re going, but I know it’s somewhere exotic and somewhere we don’t normally go, but we should go as much as possible,” Haddish, 45, tells PEOPLE.
“That’s what I do know,” she adds. “We’re supposed to start shooting this summer.”
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Co-screenwriter Tracy Oliver previously confirmed to Variety at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2023 that Girls Trip 2 will feature the characters at Ghana’s annual Afrochella music festival.
At the time, Haddish’s costar Hall opened up to PEOPLE about her reaction to learning of the location for the sequel, sharing that she “found out in real-time with everyone else” that they would be jetting off to Ghana.
“So I’m assuming that that’s going to be fun,” Hall, 54, said. “I’m excited to see the girls again and to make something hopefully that the fans love.”
“I think the biggest thing is we had so much fun making the first one,” she added. “And I just look forward to just having that kind of fun again and that audiences will hopefully love it as well.”
Hall also discussed why a sequel to the hit film — which follows college friends who travel to New Orleans for the Essence Music Festival to bond once more, years after graduation — was delayed, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, among other things.
The Scary Movie star said the sequel was first delayed because the cast and crew were “busy.” She added, “So then, when you lock in the time — when you’re like, ‘Oh, we can do it now’ — a pandemic comes. And then it’s like, ‘Well, we’ve got to wait.’ ”
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The actress said of the complications of filming during COVID-19, “You can’t have a film that interactive in the middle of a pandemic. It’s about being out and about. So I think that kind of changed it, too.”
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Girls Trip producer Will Packer also previously teased the sequel, sharing that the movie was “underway” during a January 2022 appearance on Good Morning America.
“Can’t we all use a post-pandemic trip, my friend? I think that the time is actually right, and this is something that I will tell you and break right now at GMA: the Girls Trip 2 sequel, we are underway,” Packer said on the broadcast at the time.
