{"id":192178,"date":"2026-04-10T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192178\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:33:36","slug":"jennifer-lopez-reflects-on-maid-in-manhattan-23-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192178\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez reflects on \u2018Maid in Manhattan&#8217; 23 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/659368_050226_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Jennifer Lopez reflects on \u2018Maid in Manhattan' 23 years later\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lopez opened up about her time filming Maid in Manhattan, sharing a heartfelt reflection more than two decades after the movie\u2019s release. <\/p>\n<p>In a recent Instagram post, Lopez said she still thinks about her character Marisa Ventura, a single mom from the Bronx who unexpectedly finds herself swept into a romance with a wealthy senatorial candidate played by Ralph Fiennes.<\/p>\n<p>She revealed that the film originally began as a script called The Chambermaid before she and producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas worked with director Wayne Wang to reimagine the story.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez described Marisa as \u201ca girl with her nose pressed to the snow globe of Manhattan.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She noted how meaningful it was to play a character whose Bronx roots mirrored her own.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez fondly recalled working alongside Natasha Richardson, Bob Hoskins, Stanley Tucci, Tyler Posey, Amy Sedaris, and Fiennes.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Affleck\u2019s ex called the experience \u201ca movie, a cast, a time\u201d she\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n<p>The film earned her a 2003 NAACP Image Award nomination. <\/p>\n<p>In 2025 she reunited with Fiennes at Variety\u2019s Creative Impact Awards, where he praised her \u201camazing skills\u201d and spirit before presenting her with the Legend and Groundbreakers award. <\/p>\n<p>Lopez responded warmly, joking that they \u201cmust stop meeting in hotels like this,\u201d a playful nod to their 2002\u2019s romantic comedy\u2019s storyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez opened up about her time filming Maid in Manhattan, sharing a heartfelt reflection more than two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-192178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}