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"Fans of the 1999 hit movie The Best Man have long been looking forward to the sequel, The Best Man Holiday, which finally hits theaters today. One of the film&amp;#x27;s stars, Nia Long, who plays sexy-smart Jordan Armstrong, stopped by Glamour HQ to talk about why the original film resonates with so many and what to expect from the much-anticipated sequel. Tell us about the movie! Nia: The film is basically about a group of friends who reunite after 15 years, real time. They reunite for the holidays. My character, Jordan, is a television producer. She&amp;amp;#8217;s now kind of running a network. Her challenge is that she&amp;amp;#8217;s not quite sure how to balance love and career. There&amp;amp;#8217;s a bunch of other characters, but Jordan is one of the characters from the original film. The movie is really about a group of friends getting together for the holiday, and any and everything that could possibly happen happens. The good stuff, the bad stuff, you need tissues, there&amp;amp;#8217;s a lot of laughter, there&amp;amp;#8217;s beautiful women, sexy guys&amp;amp;#8212;there&amp;amp;#8217;s a little bit of everything. And it kind of kicks off the holiday spirit. What do you think this film is going to mean to 20-year-olds who may have not seen the original film, The Best Man? Nia: Well, you know what&amp;amp;#8217;s interesting? I feel like the audience that knew us 14 years ago are now all the professional women who were just starting out in their careers. So it&amp;amp;#8217;s like, oh wow, my trajectory is good. And the women who are just starting out their careers are going to look at these characters and go, &amp;amp;#8220;OK, that&amp;amp;#8217;s where I want to go. That&amp;amp;#8217;s where I want to be.&amp;amp;#8221; Because each character has a really good profession. They&amp;#x27;re very contemporary characters. I think it&amp;amp;#8216;s always great when you can go to a film and see something that you see in yourself or see in a friend, you know, something in common with the characters on film is always a great thing. And I think the younger audience is going to appreciate it just as much, and I don&amp;amp;#8217;t think you need to see the first one to get the second one. Is the chemistry sort of still the same between your character and Taye Diggs&amp;amp;#8217; character? Nia: Well, it&amp;amp;#8217;s different now because obviously he&amp;amp;#8217;s married&amp;amp;#8212;he got proposed to in the last one. So he&amp;amp;#8217;s married, but I feel like there&amp;amp;#8217;s still those beats of, &amp;amp;#8220;Is he the one that got away?&amp;amp;#8221; You know how you have that one guy where you&amp;amp;#8217;re like, &amp;amp;#8220;Did I make the right move and the right choice?&amp;amp;#8221; Or maybe he&amp;amp;#8217;s thinking that about you? I still feel like we have that rapport with one another in the film, for sure. Have you stayed in touch with everyone over the years? Nia: We&amp;amp;#8217;re all friends. It&amp;amp;#8217;s kind of scary. I&amp;amp;#8217;m flying home with Terrence Howard tonight, which I&amp;amp;#8217;m really looking forward to. I just have to tell the flight attendant when to stop the liquor because I could see it getting real fun up in there! We&amp;amp;#8217;re all really good friends, and most of us have actually worked together before. Like, Morris Chestnut and I were in Boys in the Hood together, Terrence Howard and I were in Big Momma&amp;amp;#8217;s House together, Sanaa Lathan and Taye did Brown Sugar together, and then Melissa De Sousa and Harold Perrineau actually went to college together and danced for Alvin Ailey together. There&amp;amp;#8217;s a scene in the film where the guys do Air Band and perform a song from New Edition, and you can tell the real dancers from actors because the real dancers are in your face and dramatic, and the actors are like, what? They&amp;amp;#8217;re good, but you can see the difference! It was nice because the ladies actually got to sit back and watch the men. You know, usually it&amp;amp;#8217;s us, the women, who are put on display. So we got to do a little objectifying ourselves by watching the boys perform. It was good. Are you excited for the movie?! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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