Off Campus star Mika Abdalla had an epic dance party with the one-and-only Jennifer Lopez after her viral replica costume.
“It’s a new Jeneration of party people…🎶,” Lopez, 56, wrote via Instagram on Friday, May 22, alongside footage of Abdalla, 26, outside a dance studio.
“I don’t know her personally, but I’m pretty sure that’s J. Lo,” Abdall lip-synched Khobe Clarke’s line from Off Campus.
As the cameras cut to Lopez herself, she mouthed Abdalla’s onscreen excitement that “On the Floor” had started playing. The two women subsequently hugged before dancing together.
Abdalla plays Allie Hayes in Prime Video’s Off Campus, a collegiate hockey romance adapted from Elle Kennedy’s bestselling novels. In one episode, Allie and then-boyfriend Sean (Riley Davis) attended a theme party as Lopez and Ben Affleck.
For Abdalla, that meant rocking a replica of the Hustlers actress’ navel-baring Versace gown that made a statement at the 2000 Grammy Awards.
“It was unbelievable. I had, like, four fittings. They built that [dress] from scratch,” Abdalla exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the series’ premiere this month. “I had several fittings where they were just, like, draping these fabrics over me, and different brooches and different whatever. I had so much body makeup on. It was unbelievable.”
She continued, “I was seriously, seriously taped into that dress like all day, and I’m dancing around and moving around at the end of the day, I just had, like, a layer of skin [come] off my body. It was so worth it because it looks so cool. The dress looks so good and so cool, and it was so much fun.”
According to Abdalla, she spent an entire dat on set “dancing around in this unbelievable custom-made” replica of Lopez’s iconic dress.
The scene ultimately earned Lopez’s approval.
“Love this shooooww,” Lopez tweeted on May 18, alongside footage of Allie’s J. Lo dance.
The “On the Floor” dance also introduced Allie to her eventual love interest, Dean Heyward-Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn).
“I’m just really looking forward to digging deeper into who Allie and Dean are,” Abdalla told Us of her hopes for future Off Campus seasons. “They both, kind of, have these fronts, these personas that are hard to kind of crack through. They are kind of stereotypes of themselves. But in the books, as we know, there’s so much beneath the surface of Dean, and there’s so much beneath the surface of Allie.”
She added, “When it is time for our season, I’m excited to dig emotionally into that a little bit more, because, you know, we see Allie and Dean as their exteriors a lot in season 1. While that is fun, and they are super fun characters to play, I think as actors, selfishly, both of us are really excited to, kind of, like, get psychological.”
Off Campus has already been renewed for a second season, though it is known whether Dean or his hockey teammates Logan (Antonio Cipriano) or Tucker (Jalen Thomas Brooks) will take the lead next after Garrett (Belmont Cameli) in season 1.
Off Campus season 1 is now streaming on Prime Video.
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