Holly (Jennifer Lopez) and Alex (Rodrigo Santoro) in What To Expect When You're Expecting
Jennifer Lopez’s character in “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” turns to adoption when she and her husband have difficulty conceiving — and just like her character, the actress fell madly in love with the tiny actor who teamed with his twin brother to play her new son.
“I almost took that baby home,” Lopez said of 2-year-old Samuel, who
took to her immediately off-camera before their first scene was shot.
Samuel and his twin brother Asher were adopted from Ethiopia by Atlanta couple Kindred and Meredith Howard.
According to People.com, the boys were severely malnourished and
suffered from meningitis and sepsis after their biological mother died
at childbirth.
After bringing the twins to Atlanta to join the couple’s three other
children, daughter Emerson, 9, and sons William, 6, and Carson, 4, the
Howards nursed the twins back to health – and eventually, onto the
Atlanta set of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.”
“Sammy was the first one to cuddle up to Jennifer,” Kindred told
People.com. “I thought, ‘He just weaseled his way into the top spot.’
There were times when I would look at Jennifer between takes and she
would be playing peek-a-boo with Samuel.”
Asher took more to actor Rodrigo Santoro, who played Lopez’s husband.
“So Sammy is the one you see in just about all of the scenes with
Jennifer and Asher is in the dude scene with Rodrigo,” explains Howard.
“Between shooting, Rodrigo was taking pictures on his phone of he and
Asher. It was the sweetest thing.”
Below, Jennifer (and co-star Wendi McLendon-Covey)
talks about the quick bond J.Lo formed with Samuel and how the time she
spent with both twins made her re-consider adopting a baby in the
future.
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