“I had fun in the first one. The second one?” Streisand said about Little Fockers in an interview with The New York Times.
“I never saw the complete movie. I was in Europe spa-ing, going from spa to spa. And they were sending me bits to O.K. So I would download them and watch the bits on my computer. It's the first time in my life I never saw the whole movie.”
“I think it did $300 million,” Streisand stated. “So what do I know?”
Directing this time was Paul Weitz (Jay Roach did not return). Weitz told writer Edward Davis directing Little Fockers was “like managing an all-star team where you have to distribute the ball.”
Owen Wilson shared a kiss with Streisand in the movie and talked about it while doing press. “It was actually kind of an exciting scene. To be able to say you kissed Barbra Streisand, that’s pretty major. That’s one you can check off the to do list. But it was kind of surreal; you kiss Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman comes in.”
Barbra seemed surprised during each take. “We got to do it again and again, and she seemed startled every single time,” Owen said. “I was tilting on the left during the kiss. Aside from being very kissable she also has a great figure.”
Dustin Hoffman originally wasn’t in the movie. Entertainment Weekly reported in November 2009 “that there has been strife between Hoffman and the studio over the size of the part, the scheduling of the days on set and other difficulties.”
After a test screening of the movie, the studio decided to approach Hoffman again (beg?). Asked why he did his Little Fockers cameo, Hoffman told the press: “The back end.” [Hoffman probably lowered his paycheck in order to receive a percentage of box office grosses.]
With a budget of $100 million, Little Fockers earned Universal Pictures $310 million at the movie theaters — and its cast were most likely generously paid as well.