{"id":192205,"date":"2026-04-10T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192205\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:58:37","slug":"jennifer-lopez-calls-maid-in-manhattan-role-unforgettable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192205\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez calls &#8216;Maid in Manhattan&#8217; role &#8216;unforgettable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1398453_061030_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Jennifer Lopez calls 'Maid in Manhattan' role 'unforgettable'\"\/>Jennifer Lopez calls &#8216;Maid in Manhattan&#8217; role &#8216;unforgettable&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lopez looked back on one of her most beloved films, Maid in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>More than two decades after its release, Lopez shared a heartfelt message reflecting on her role as Marisa Venture.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Instagram on April 9, the actress and singer said she still thinks about the character all these years later.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez wrote in the caption, &#8220;Twenty-something years later and I still think about Marisa Ventura. A single mom who moved through marble lobbies and thread-count sheets that weren\u2019t hers\u2026but carried herself like they could be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adding, &#8220;Maid in Manhattan started as a script called The Chambermaid. @egt239 and I reached out to Wayne Wang and together we dreamed up a girl with her nose pressed to the snow globe of Manhattan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A girl from the Bronx, playing a girl from the Bronx, who dared to dream bigger than her zip code\u2026&#8221; Lopez shared.<\/p>\n<p>Concluding the caption, Lopez noted, &#8220;I was so lucky to share that set with Natasha Richardson, Bob Hoskins, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Tyler Posey and Amy Sedaris. What a movie. What a cast. What a time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a recent reunion between Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes at an industry event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez calls &#8216;Maid in Manhattan&#8217; role &#8216;unforgettable&#8217; Jennifer Lopez looked back on one of her most beloved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-192205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192205","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=192205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}