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How Nia created Jordan…
We all may know a woman like the character Jordan, a woman who’s thrown herself into work so much so that her romantic life has suffered. Nia Long has a friend like that too and that’s how she formulated the character of Jordan. This is what she told Black Film.com
I have a girlfriend who is a producer and another girlfriend who works in Publicity. I combined the two. The producer speaks really fast and that’s her thing. Over the phone she can tell you 50 things in 30 seconds. And my other girlfriend who works in publicity is just always carrying stuff. She is always moving and has fifty things going on. I just wanted to create a girl who was always doing something and never really took the time out to relax. That’s probably why she didn’t have love in her life.
