Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes starrer 'Maid In Manhattan' interesting trivia; Read

Maid in Manhattan is a 2002 romantic-comedy-drama movie helmed by Wayne Wang. The movie stars Jennifer Lopez, Natasha Richardson and Ralph Fiennes. The plot of Maid in Manhattan revolves around the life of a senatorial candidate who falls in love with a hotel maid. He thinks that she is a socialite when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman’s dress. Here is a compilation of interesting trivia of this Jennifer Lopez starrer movie.

Maid in Manhattan Trivia

• Maid in Manhattan is loosely based on a real-life story of Steven Clark Rockefeller who is the son of former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Steven married his maid Anne-Marie Rasmussen who was a maid at his family’s Manhattan Hotel in the year 1959.
• The pink gown worn by Jennifer Lopez at the fund-raising dinner is a vintage gown from the year 1950.
• Story Writer John Hughes requested the makers to remove his name from the credits, as the finished product has very little of his original script, which was set in Chicago.

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• Maid in Manhattan was the last movie co-produced by Hughes Entertainment, the production company of John Hughes formed in the year 1987.
• Ralph Fiennes reportedly admitted to regretting being a part of Maid in Manhattan.
• In real-life, Ralph Fiennes is a good friend of late Natasha Richardson’s husband Liam Nesson. Natasha essayed the role of Caroline Lane in Maid in Manhattan.

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• Maid in Manhattan movie was reportedly the second time when Jennifer Lopez took over a project from Minnie Driver as she turned it down. The first movie was the 2001 movie The Wedding Planner.
• Maid in Manhattan was voted as the 35th among Britain’s Favourite romantic comedy movies in the year 2018.
• In the original poster of Maid in Manhattan, Marissa can be seen holding a duster in her hand as she sits down. However, when the movie was released on DVD the duster was removed because of copyright issues.

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• In the Spanish dubbed version of Maid in Manhattan, Bob Hoskin’s character was played by the same dub-player as Sir Anthony Hopkins 1993 movie The Remains of the Day.
• The actor playing the role of Jennifer Lopez’s mother, Priscilla Lopez, isn’t her real-life mother but they share the same surname.
• Natasha Richardson and Ralph Fiennes later collaborated together for the 2005 movie The White Countess

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