For Office Romance co-stars Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein, romance is everything
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Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein in the film Office Romance, directed by English film-maker Ol Parker.
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Ashley Spencer
NEW YORK – While working on the third season of Ted Lasso (2020 to present) – the Emmy-winning sports show with the heart of a romantic comedy – Brett Goldstein and one of the show’s creators, Joe Kelly, spent a train ride home lamenting a perceived recent lack of quality romcoms.
So, they began mapping out a movie script for “an old-school romcom but with ruder jokes” that could also serve as a “love letter to workaholics”, Goldstein said. “We were like, ‘Who’s the best actor to do that with?’ and we both went, ‘JLo, obviously’.”