“Love Jones,” the 1997 movie starring Nia Lengthy and her heartthrob co-star Larenz Tate, is a Black romance traditional that also has a maintain on film lovers’ hearts.
From the soundtrack to the dialogue to the chemistry, the movie faucets straight into ’90s Black tradition and nostalgia. The passionate ending screams unfinished enterprise because it retains followers nonetheless pushing for a sequel that will by no means come.
‘Love Jones’ Traits as Followers Debate The Movie Being a ‘Scary’ Stalker Flick and Not the Romanticized Love Story Everybody Thought It Was
In “Love Jones,” Nina Mosley (Nia Lengthy) and Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) start relationship after assembly at an open-mic evening. After a sequence of breakups and belief points on each ends, they attempt to give love one other strive, regardless of dwelling in separate states.
Lengthy doesn’t appear desperate to revisit their story on display. Off-screen, although, the 2 nonetheless join. Followers loved their “Love Jones” impressed vacation industrial for Walmart again in 2024.
Nia Lengthy and Larenz Tate as Nina and Darius in ‘Love Jones’ (1997). pic.twitter.com/GSepZ4iNWq
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They lately reunited once more within the Lionsgate biopic, “Michael.” Lengthy performs Michael Jackson’s mom, Katherine Jackson and Tate portrays Jackson’s former supervisor, Barry Gordy.
On the Los Angeles “Michael” premiere on April 20, an “Leisure Tonight” host requested Lengthy about one other “Love Jones” reunion.
“A sequel to ‘Love Jones,’ I by no means needed to actually,” she confessed. “As a result of I felt prefer it was so stunning as is. And I didn’t wish to mess it up I needed it to remain as a singular piece of artwork that individuals love and luxuriate in to observe.”
Tate was stopped by one other media outlet on the similar L.A. premiere, who requested about reuniting with Lengthy. He mentioned, “
Larenz Tate on taking part in Berry Gordy in #Michael and reuniting along with his “Love Jones” co-star Nia Lengthy. pic.twitter.com/4VmnhPbNYx
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Followers appeared shocked and shocked by Lengthy’s admission, whereas others understood the place she was coming from within the feedback.
One YouTuber mentioned, “Typically folks obtained to go away the traditional film alone Love Jones it was and nonetheless is nice film.”
One other one that felt equally typed, “It was good with only one.” A 3rd particular person who agreed with Lengthy wrote, “She was proper! Go away it alone!”
In an April 14 interview with Individuals, Lengthy opened up about her connection to “Love Jones.”
She mentioned, “I felt like Love Jones was such an extension of who I’m. My father was a poet; my mom’s an artist. We’re from Brooklyn, however Chicago and New York have some symmetry. I simply knew it was trustworthy, and I feel when one thing is trustworthy, it’s good.”
As for Tate, in 2023, he’s open however doesn’t suppose it would have the identical influence. He mentioned he and Lengthy have explored concepts, from a TV present to a movie franchise, nevertheless it’s exhausting to “catch lightning in a bottle twice.”
They wish to defend what “Love Jones” means and received’t “disrupt” it except it meets their requirements and followers’ expectations.
“We all know what these characters meant, and we all know what the message and the story meant to us,” Tate burdened. “And we don’t wish to disrupt that, we don’t wish to shake that up, and do one thing that doesn’t stay as much as our expectations of our viewers would need from us.”
It seems that what they ended up developing with is the “Don’t Ever Surprise” film, which is impressed by singer Maxwell’s “Asencion (Don’t Ever Surprise)” tune from his 1996 “City Dangle Suite” debut album. It’s tells the a narrative about love and a pair changing into empty nesters after their kids go to varsity.
In her Individuals interview, Lengthy briefly talked about how the upcoming Netflix movie with Tate is a slight nod to “Love Jones.”
“It’s kind of an extension of the place Nina and Darius [from Love Jones] may very well be immediately, nevertheless it’s a totally completely different movie,” she mentioned. “There’s much more comedy. We’re dad and mom now. We actually simply wrapped a few weeks in the past. I like Larenz. That’s my man, eternally and ever and ever.”
The movie appears to have some pleasure round it, being that viewers will get to witness Lengthy and Tate’s display chemistry once more.
The pair will reunite within the Netflix drama, “Don’t Ever Surprise.” It’s removed from a sequel to “Love Jones,” however follows a pair navigating love through the empty-nester part of life.
