Fans went wild when Jennifer Lopez reunited with her Maid In Manhattan co-star Ralph Fiennes 22 years after their film premiered.
The romantic comedy starred Ralph as a Republican Senate candidate who falls in love with a hotel maid played by Jo after mistaking her for a socialite.
Although the film received a dismissive response from critics, it emerged as a box office hit and remains a favorite among JLo fans.
The stars were together again when Ralph honored JLo during an event at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, held at the Parker Palm Springs resort.
“We really need to stop meeting up in hotels like this,” JLo, 55, joked after Ralph, 62, brought her on stage at VarietyThe 10 directors to watch and the Creative Impact awards.
Social media went into a frenzy over the reunion, with one commenting, “Maybe I’m crazy, but I would love for these two to be together.”
Fans went wild when Jennifer Lopez reunited with her Maid In Manhattan co-star Ralph Fiennes 22 years after their film premiered.
The romantic comedy starred Ralph as a Republican Senate candidate who falls in love with a hotel maid played by Jo after mistaking her for a socialite.
Offstage, the couple posed side by side for photographers, in images that sent their fans into paroxysms of delight online.
Jennifer has endured a turbulent year in her personal life, filing for divorce from Ben Affleck last August on just their second wedding anniversary.
Ralph was honoring her for her career in general, as well as her new movie Unstoppable, whose producers included Ben and his old friend Matt Damon.
In his speech, Ralph recounted the plot of Maid In Manhattan and praised the ‘determination’ with which he has lived his life.
“Once upon a time, in another life and perhaps in a different era of movie stories, there was a Republican candidate for senator wandering around a hotel in Manhattan, and there was also in that same other life a maid in this hotel,” he said. saying.
‘This Republican senatorial hopeful was impressed by her good looks, but couldn’t really see her. This maid was masking something in her demure and attentive way. “She was sweet and charming, but she was actually hiding something,” he said.
‘She was hiding some kind of superpower. “Behind this maid’s mask there was truly a force, a force of creativity, a force of action, something so powerful that it simply could not be stopped,” the Harry Potter actor continued.
“An unstoppable force was emerging from this humble and simple hotel maid, and this maid, in fact, possessed extraordinary wings that spread and flew away,” The English Patient icon added.
Although the film received a dismissive response from critics, it emerged as a box office hit and remains a favorite among JLo fans.
This weekend, the stars were together again when Ralph honored JLo during an event at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, held at the Parker Palm Springs resort.
“We really need to stop meeting up in hotels like this,” JLo, 55, joked after Ralph, 62, took her on stage at Variety’s 10 Directors To Watch And Creative Impact Awards.
Offstage, the couple posed side by side for photographers, in images that sent their fans into paroxysms of delight online.
Ralph was honoring her for her career in general, as well as her new movie Unstoppable, whose producers included Ben and his old friend Matt Damon.
In his speech, Ralph told the plot of Maid In Manhattan and saluted the ‘determination’ with which he has lived his life
Social media went into a frenzy over the reunion, with one commenting, “Maybe I’m crazy, but I would love for these two to be together.”
“In this life, in this story, she already flies with determination since she was little, because I think she knows that she has something inside her that she must honor while flying high,” he continued.
“She honors and fulfills her extraordinary creative spirit and shares it, illuminating the lives of so many people, inspiring them and brightening their days.”
He praised her as an “incredible dancer and singer” and a “beautiful actress,” and spared a mention of the “pretty amazing pole dancing skills” she acquired to play the queen bee of a criminal stripper ring in his acclaimed 2019 drama Hustlers.
JLo posted a video of the speech on Instagram and wrote, “I can’t thank Ralph Fiennes enough for his beautiful words and for our little Maid in Manhattan reunion today. It was wonderful to see you. You made me cry. (That’s why I was sobbing throughout my entire speech hahaha).’
She wrote enthusiastically: ‘I love you. Thank you very much…working with you was one of the best moments of my career so far. I say so far because I hope to be able to do it again someday soon for Maid in Manhattan 2… You never know…’
Fans on social media gushed over pictures of Ralph and JLo together, with one saying: ‘Well, that looks great!’ This is still one of my favorite romantic comedies of all time.
“I wonder what vacation house she bought Ralph,” one joked while another praised Jennifer’s outfit, writing, “I love this lilac one on her.”
Another joked: ‘Me at first: Wow, I didn’t know they had such a big age difference! Me, after Googling and finding out that it doesn’t: Wow, whatever I’m doing WORKS.’