Despite fan demand, Lucy Liu doesn’t think that returning for Charlie’s Angels 3 with Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz is feasible.
It’s been over twenty years since Lucy Liu first suited up as one of Charlie’s Angels alongside Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, and despite the fan demand for Charlie’s Angels 3, she doesn’t think it will happen.
While speaking with Variety, Lucy Liu didn’t seem optimistic about a third installment. “I honestly don’t know how that’s going to be feasible,” she said. “There have been so many iterations, even after the fact … In some ways, it’s such a strange thing to think about it. Times have changed so much since then.“
Liu did say that doing publicity for the movies with Diaz and Barrymore was a big moment. “At that time, when we were doing publicity, they had never before had three women on a magazine cover,” Liu continued. “They didn’t even know how to do it. It was such a strange thing for women to collaborate and be seen as colleagues and friends. It was such a big moment in time, and now it’s shifted. Even when I was doing ‘Ally McBeal,’ there had never been a lead woman in that way. There was Mary Tyler Moore and things like that, but the focus has changed. I’m not in charge of that, but I always enjoy the time that I have and then I move on. I never really dwell on anything like that. But I really would be shocked if that happened.“
Drew Barrymore has expressed an interest in returning for Charlie’s Angels 3. “Those are interesting challenges because they have been established. That really is building upon something,” Barrymore said last year. “There’s so much history there that they don’t feel like [the work of] making films. It’s like, ‘Do you want to spend your life doing that? With those people?’ Yes. I would show up. I really would.”
McG, who directed Charlie’s Angels and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, has also said that he’d like to see the original trio return, even if he’s not at the helm. “There always seems to be chatter about that. I’m very happy to discuss it with Drew and Cameron and Lucy, but at the same time, I’m very happy to pass the torch,” McG said. “I mean, I love the Tim Burton Batman movies, I love the new Batman movies. It’s just sort of like there can be a keeper of the flame and you can pass the torch.“