Over Two Decades Later, Jennifer Lopez Fondly Revisits Maid In Manhattan

American superstar singer and actress Jennifer Lopez recalls her role in the popular film Maid in Manhattan, a hit released 23 years ago.

The singer, now 56, had featured in the 2002 romantic comedy, playing the role of Marisa Ventura, a single mom from the Bronx employed as a maid at one of New York City’s finest and most sophisticated hotels.

Her character was trying on a wealthy guest’s clothing when she met and fell for Christopher Marshall, a wealthy senatorial candidate played by Ralph Fiennes, who mistook her for a hotel guest and member of the elite class.

In a recent Instagram post, Lopez states that she looks back fondly on her time acting in the movie.

“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’t hers…but carried herself like they could be,” she wrote.

Lopez was just 32 when she filmed Maid in Manhattan. She reveals it originally started as a script called ‘The Chambermaid’; however, she and producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas contacted the director Wayne Wang, and they “dreamed up a girl with her nose pressed to the snow globe of Manhattan.”

Lopez was nominated for the 2003 Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture at the Image Awards (NAACP) for her Marisa Ventura role, but lost out to Angela Bassett, who featured in Sunshine State.

Reflecting on such good times, Lopez had posted, “What a movie. What a cast. What a time.”