{"id":608760,"date":"2026-04-16T20:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608760\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:50:15","slug":"ariana-grande-steals-the-show-in-focker-in-law-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608760\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande steals the show in \u2018Focker-In-Law\u2019 trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 26 years since Ben Stiller\u2019s beloved male nurse Greg Focker worked hard to win over his terrifying father-in-law, played by Robert DeNiro.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Ariana Grande is here to show him how it\u2019s done in Focker-In-Law, the fourth instalment in the Meet the Parents franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>A trailer released on Wednesday shows Grande playing Olivia Jones, who is dating Greg\u2019s son, Henry (played by The Social Dilemma star Skyler Gisondo) and meeting his family for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike the trouble Greg received from his father-in-law Jack, Olivia gets a very different, significantly more positive reaction with a potential offer into the circle of trust \u2014 even if it does involve the newcomer undergoing a lie-detector test first.<\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Loading...\" height=\"64\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital\/21.0.1\/websites\/images\/common\/icon-spinner-animated.svg\" width=\"64\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We apologize, but this video has failed to load.<\/p>\n<p>Play VideoNot so wicked after all<\/p>\n<p>While the latest Focker film looks arguably the best of the bunch, many on social media were more surprised by Grande\u2019s voice \u2014 which is much different than what fans have heard over the last couple of years for her portrayal of Glinda the Good in Wicked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenuinely gasped hearing her speak without the Glinda voice for the first time in 3 years,\u201d one wrote on X, while another agreed: \u201cThe whiplash is REAL like wait, that\u2019s her actual voice? I\u2019ve been conditioned for 3 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One user commented that they \u201cdon\u2019t know what her actual voice sounds like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another noted that \u201cit\u2019s very deep compared to her singing voice and her voice for Kat from Victorious,\u201d but acknowledged, \u201cI\u2019ll probably never get used to Ari\u2019s real speaking voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Meet the Parents franchise<\/p>\n<p>Meet the Parents focused on Greg struggling to be accepted by his girlfriend\u2019s overbearing father (De Niro).<\/p>\n<p>The 2000 film surpassed US$330 million at the global box office and spawned two sequels \u2014 2004\u2019s\u00a0Meet the Fockers, which added Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand to the cast as Greg\u2019s parents Bernie and Roz, and Little Fockers in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner and Teri Polo reprise their roles from the franchise, while aside from Grande and Gisondo other newcomers to the cast include Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart) and Eduardo Franco (Stranger Things).<\/p>\n<p>Roach directed the first two movies, while Paul Weitz helmed the third in the franchise. John Hamburg takes on the latest instalment.<\/p>\n<p>Focker-In-Law hits theatres on Nov. 27.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED VIDEO<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Loading...\" height=\"64\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital\/21.0.1\/websites\/images\/common\/icon-spinner-animated.svg\" width=\"64\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We apologize, but this video has failed to load.<\/p>\n<p>Play Video<\/p>\n<p>Share this article in your social network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Article content It\u2019s been 26 years since Ben Stiller\u2019s beloved male nurse Greg Focker worked hard to win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-608760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}