Jennifer, on how they met at a restaurant in Beverly Hills:
“I almost yelled out ‘Alex,’ but I am the shyest person when it comes to things like that...I could literally just have walked away. But I walk over and tap him on the shoulder and say ‘Hey.’ I had just come from a promo for my show, Shades of Blue [in which she plays N.Y.P.D. detective Harlee Santos], so I’m dressed like my character, like a boy—Timberlands, jeans, curly short hair. He looks at me. I say, ‘It’s Jennifer.’ He says, ‘You look so beautiful.’ ”
Jennifer, on their first date, at the restaurant at the Hotel Bel Air:
“He was sitting there in his white shirt, very confident and manly, but then he was just so talkative! I think he thought I was going to be this loud person, but I’m not. I just listen. So he’s talking, talking about his plans, about how he had just retired from baseball, about how he saw himself getting married again, all these things you wouldn’t normally talk about on a first date. I don’t know if he thought it was a date. I thought it was a date. Then I knew he was nervous because he asked me if I wanted a drink. I said, ‘No, I don’t drink,’ and he asked if I minded if he had one. He was nervous, and it was really cute.”
Alex, on their first date:
“I didn’t know if it was a date. Maybe we were seeing each other at night because of her work schedule. I went in uneasy, not knowing her situation. It would be incredibly productive for me to sit with one of the smartest, greatest women in the world, especially for a guy like me who is coming through tough times, rehabbing himself, re-establishing himself to folks out there. I thought it would be a win-win no matter what. She told me around the third or fourth inning that she was single. I had to get up and go re-adjust my thoughts. I went to the bathroom and got enough courage to send her a text.”
Jennifer, on what happened when he went to the bathroom:
“So I’m sitting there and he’s walking back, and I get a text. It says . . .‘You look sexy AF.’ And then it took a turn. The fire alarm went off, and we had to evacuate. No, really. The fire alarm went off!”
Alex, on what they have in common:
“We are very much twins. We’re both Leos; we’re both from New York; we’re both Latino and about 20 other things.”
Jennifer, on what they have in common:
“I understand him in a way that I don’t think anyone else could, and he understands me in a way that no one else could ever. In his 20s, he came into big success with the biggest baseball contract [at the time]. I had a No. 1 movie and a No. 1 album and made history. We both had ups and downs and challenges in our 30s, and by our 40s we’d both been through so much. And more importantly than anything, we had both done a lot of work on ourselves.”
Read the rest of the fascinating interview at Vanity Fair.
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