Marlon Wayans, Jennifer Lopez. Getty Photos (2)
Marlon Wayans says Jennifer Lopez continues to be Jenny from the block.
“From my expertise, J.Lo blew up, and after I [see] her, it’s at all times love. All the time,” Wayans, 52, stated throughout a Thursday, September 5, look on the “Membership Shay Shay” podcast. “She’s by no means been like, ‘Oh, I’m above you now.’ She’s by no means been like that.”
Wayans’ feedback come after his and Lopez’s fellow In Residing Colour alum Tommy Davidson claimed throughout a December 2023 look on the identical podcast that Lopez snubbed him on the peak of her fame.
“I’m going over there and I’m like, ‘What’s up, woman? Man, you blew up. What’s going on?’” Davidson, 60, recalled earlier than miming Lopez’s chilly greeting whereas taking a chunk of carrot dip. “I’m going, ‘What’s in that carrot dip? As a result of she’s positive dipping my ass.’”
Davidson added that his anecdote shouldn’t be taken as “J.Lo bashing” as a result of his former costar is “loopy proficient.”
Davidson starred on all 5 seasons of In Residing Colour, which ran from 1990 to 1994. Wayans was a featured forged member throughout season 4 of the sketch comedy collection and Lopez was a member of the “Fly Ladies” dance troupe for seasons 3 and 4. Whereas Davidson has a narrative of Lopez allegedly dismissing him, Wayans credit her with touchdown him a task within the 2023 movie Air.
Jennifer Lopez on ‘In Residing Colour.’ YouTube
“She instructed [her now estranged husband] Ben Affleck [to cast me]. He was like, ‘I want actor to do that position, and I need anyone handsome to play George Raveling.’ And he or she stated, ‘What about Marlon? He’s an ideal dramatic actor,’” Wayans recounted on Thursday. “And so Ben known as me and was like, ‘Will you do that position in my film?’ It was an ideal position, and I used to be like, ‘Guess!’”
Wayans added that he doesn’t maintain it towards Lopez when she doesn’t have time for him.
The phrase “Bennifer” would possibly embody flashbacks to frosted lip gloss and butterfly clips, however the whole lot comes again in model ultimately. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez received again collectively practically 20 years after their romance first took the world by storm. The pair first related in 2002 on the set of the ill-fated Gigli. The film […]
“It’s arduous for everyone to at all times [want your] consideration, particularly once you [are] her [and] you [are] being pulled this fashion, you’re being pulled that approach,” he defined. “So, I don’t take it private. I simply go, possibly [she’s] busy. I’ll hit her one other time.”
Wayans isn’t the one one who has come to Lopez’s protection not too long ago. Actress Eliza González took to her Instagram Story in June to sentence these laughing about Lopez canceling her This Is Me … Dwell tour.
“I’ve to say the extent of bullying that this girl has acquired in the previous few months is so disturbing and heartbreaking,” González, 34, wrote by way of her Instagram Story on the time. “How will you complain about somebody being imply whereas having fun with being imply about them. Persons are people, make errors and a few have private issues taking place whereas additionally having to be always good within the public eye.”
The tour cancellation got here amid considerations about Lopez and Affleck’s marriage. Lopez filed for divorce on August 20, two years to the day after the pair’s second marriage ceremony ceremony in Savannah, Georgia.