Desde Hollywood was invited to attend the press conference for the -very enjoyable- Netflix original film MURDER MYSTERY.

Our good friend Scott Mantz moderated a panel featuring were writer James Vanderbilt, director Kyle Newacheck, and actors Luis Gerardo Méndez, Shioli Kutsuna, Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston and Dany Boon.

Read some highlights from the lively exchange below!

MURDER MYSTERY is now streaming, exclusively on Netflix.

-All images courtesy of Netflix

James, how did your love of Agatha Christie and James Bond come together for this murder mystery?

JAMES VANDERBILT: I was a child of the 80’s. So I grew up with movies like Murder By Death and Clue and just sort of these great, funny comedies. And when I first read the script, I had recently gotten married. And I realized there were movies about couples who were falling in love or movies about couples that were just about to break up. But there was never sort of a movie about a couple who was married and were in love and worked together to do something. So I sort of loved the idea of “what if an American married couple like that crashed into an Agatha Christie story?”

Kyle, what was your take on the screenplay? What made you see all the different potential possibilities for where this movie could go?

KYLE NEWACHECK: Well, I mean, James wrote it. So I read it and then I just imagined it. But I knew that [Adam and Jennifer] were going to be a part of this by the time I read the script, so I was able to plug them in. And the idea of them at the center of this very truthful genre comedy was so appealing.

Luis, when you first came on and you just saw you were going to be making a movie with Adam and Jennifer and the filmmakers here?

LUIS GERARDO MÉNDEZ: I was terrified at the beginning. It was very exciting, but I grew up watching these guys. I grew up watching them the whole time. So I guess a lot of my comedy comes from watching them. So I was very nervous about working with them. But it was the best deal of my life. It was pretty fun.

Shioli, what’s your take on just how the movie blends action and comedy and really turns out to be a movie for everyone?

SHIOLI KUTSUNA: I mean, it was such a great experience. I have actually never done comedy back in Japan. I avoided comedy because I was terrified to. I felt so much pressure to have to be funny. But yeah. It was just really amazing.

What’s it like to re-team after seven or eight years after Just Go With It and work together again?

JENNIFER ANISTON: It was just like no time had actually passed. Because we’ve seen each other over the years. And it’s something that just comes sort of extremely naturally to us. I think just because we’ve known each other for so long. And it’s kind of what we do. So it just felt very natural. But he is a lot older now. [Laughs]

ADAM SANDLER: I did age. I did age. I saw Just Go With It the other night. I was going to sleep and I said let me watch one of my movies tonight.

JENNIFER ANISTON: Put yourself to sleep?

ADAM SANDLER: Yeah. Peaceful. No. I sometimes watch my movies and just put the entire family on speaker phone and go, do you see how much I have accomplished? Now do you like me? But I watched Just Go With It and I was laughing. Really. Yes. It was really funny.

Does it hold up?

ADAM SANDLER: It holds up great. My part holds up strong. Jennifer, no, Jennifer. Have you seen it in a while? Incredible. You look incredible in that movie.

JENNIFER ANISTON: Thank you.

ADAM SANDLER: And you look incredible in this movie. And I think I’ve become softer, and more lovable.

JENNIFER ANISTON: Well, yeah, more lovable. But I also think you’ve maintained your look as well.

ADAM SANDLER: Thank you. It’s all the mustache.

JENNIFER ANISTON: I know. Holds your lip up. [Laughs]

How was the making of this film? Filming in Europe…?

DANY BOON: I was a little bit nervous to play in English. Because I used to speak French before. But the thing is, both of them, I’m a huge fan of their work. It’s great to see you getting the lines and make fun of the things and invent all around. And to be also generous with the other actors actually. The agents laughed out loud yesterday because it’s a lot of generosity in that movie and humanity.

JENNIFER ANISTON: That’s a beautiful observation.

DANY BOON: Thank you. I’m leaving now. Thank you. [Laughs]

Adam and Jen, how do you elevate each other?

JENNIFER ANISTON: We also worked really hard as we were going. Every night, we would go back and sort of tweak the scenes.

ADAM SANDLER: Jennifer worked harder than me for sure.

JENNIFER ANISTON: Hey, come on. You would read what we did together.

ADAM SANDLER: Whatever Jennifer put together, I would say “Hey, way to go!”

JENNIFER ANISTON: Because for me, it’s really important that it’s grounded. Comedy, there’s great like “balls out” comedy and then there’s comedy when it’s this broad to find some level of truth in it in order to find the organic laugh. So I think that just, that kind of work as we went along really was fun and it made it better as we went.

ADAM SANDLER: You worked hard. But when the cameras are rolling, all of us felt this. We did get comfortable with each other. Like day two or three, we all became pretty tight. And everybody felt comfortable with the script. Everybody felt comfortable with coming up with stuff on the day. And there was nobody in the movie that doesn’t score. Nobody in the movie that isn’t fresh and funny. This is something that doesn’t happen a lot where everybody gets a nice moment.

MURDER MYSTERY is now streaming, exclusively on Netflix.

When an NYC cop (Adam Sandler) finally takes his wife (Jennifer Aniston) on a long promised European trip, a chance meeting on the flight gets them invited to an intimate family gathering on the Super Yacht of elderly billionaire Malcolm Quince. When Quince is murdered, they become the prime suspects in a modern day whodunit. MURDER MYSTERY reunites Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston along with an ensemble cast of global talent.