friends off at school, and stops her to remind her she "should be proud to be Greek", the window changes position throughout the dialogue. Trivia: The opening scene where Nia Vardalos and Michael Constantine travel in the early morning to open the restaurant was one of the very last scenes filled. Vardalos said that all of the other cast members had finished their scenes and had left, and so the sadness she and Constantine had in that car scene reflected the tearful goodbyes they'd said ...