Office Romance will feature a Selena reunion. The upcoming Netflix movie, which was written by Ted Lᴀsso star Brett Goldstein with the Apple TV series’ co-creator Joe Kelly, is currently in production under the auspices of director Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Ticket to Paradise). The plot of the movie, which co-stars Goldstein and multihyphenate musical artist and movie star Jennifer Lopez (Maid in Manhattan, Hustlers, the upcoming Kiss of the Spider-Woman), is currently under wraps beyond the fact that it follows the love blossoming between an anti-office-romance airline CEO and a handsome lawyer she employs.

On their official X account, Netflix has announced that Edward James Olmos has joined the cast of Office Romance as Jennifer Lopez’s character’s father. He previously portrayed her father in 1997’s Selena, the iconic biopic in which she played Tejano music icon Selena Quintanilla and he played her complicated father, Abraham Quintanilla, opposite a cast that also included Jon Seda, Constance Marie, Jacob Vargas, Lupe Ontiveros, and Jackie Guerra. The announcement features the duo recreating an iconic image from the 1997 movie. See the original post below:

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The Movie Marks A Major Reunion

The new Jennifer Lopez movie now marks the first time that she has performed onscreen with Edward James Olmos since they both appeared in Selena nearly 30 years ago. However, the 1997 movie was not their first collaboration. They had previously co-starred as family members in 1995’s My Family, in which Olmos played Francisco “Paco” Sánchez and Lopez played the younger version of his mother Maria Sánchez, who was portrayed in the majority of the film by Jenny Gago.

Additionally, this casting update for the Netflix rom-com honors the legacy of Jennifer Lopez’s career. Although she has starred in many major movies since Selena, that project was the one that launched her acting career after she got her start as a dancer. Jennifer Lopez’s Selena also served as proof of concept for her future music career. Even though the movie featured her lip syncing to the original vocal tracks, it proved her onstage charisma and her ability to connect with a live audience.

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It Could Help The Netflix Movie Become A Hit

The fact that Office Romance features such an important reunion could help draw even more eyes to the project, helping it become a major hit for Netflix. Should that be the case, it would add to Lopez’s stellar track record with the platform. Her previous Netflix movie, the 2023 action feature The Mother, was viewed for more than 230 million hours and at one time was the platform’s sixth most-watched movie of all time, though it has since been superceded by other тιтles such as Back in Action, Damsel, and Carry-On.

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