In 1997, Jennifer Lopez and Sean Penn starred in U-Turn , an Oliver Stone thriller . Lopez expressed her pride at working with an actor of Penn’s caliber and said they got along well on set. So well, in fact, that she might have pursued a romantic connection with him had they not been in other relationships.
Jennifer Lopez said she would have had a ‘thing’ with Sean Penn in a different universe When Lopez filmed U-Turn , she was engaged to her first husband , Ojani Noa. Penn was married to his second wife, actor Robin Wright. Still, both actors felt chemistry between them.
When asked which of her co-stars she would have had a “thing” with in a parallel universe, Lopez named Penn. “Should I get myself in trouble with my husband?” she asked Movieline in 1998. “OK, in a parallel universe, Sean.
” She said that she and Penn even discussed this on set. She believed they would have had a very different experience working together if they had both been single. “I was engaged when we were shooting U-Turn , and one day he said, ‘If I weren’t married and you weren’t engaged, would this have been a very different movie?’ And I go, ‘Yeah! Very different,’” she recalled.
“So we kind of ...
well, we both had our own lives, so that made a real difference.” Jennifer Lopez was proud to have worked with Sean Penn Lopez said she was proud to work with someone like Penn. She believed that he respected her too.
“He has a lot of strength and we got along grea.