The film The Maid in Manhattan has captivated rom-com lovers for the past 20 years.
In the 2002 film, Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez) plays a single mother who works as a maid in a fancy Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her son Ty (Tyler Posey). She dates Christopher Marshall (Ralph Fiennes), the heir to a political dynasty, who ends up thinking Marisa is a hotel guest. After a romantic evening together, the pair fall in love. However, once Marisa’s identity is revealed, they both realize that they both come from very different worlds.
The Maid in Manhattan loosely based on the true story of Steven Clarkson of the governor of New York Nelson Rockefellerwho got married Anne-Marie Rasmussena maid working in the family hotel, in 1959.
Twenty years after the film hit theaters, Fiennes discovered this on set The Maid in Manhattanhe was caught with Lopez by the paparazzi and ended up acting as public bait to hide her early days and Ben Affleck relationship.
“I was up,” he said Grand Budapest Hotel the actor shared during a November 2022 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. “I got asked out to dinner with J. Lo and her manager and her agent… We had a nice, chatty, chatty dinner… (Afterwards,) I think I was going home, but (we gave each other a) page good night. But somehow, the pictures were sung so that as she was walking away, (it looks like) I was walking behind her.”
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