Brett Goldstein wrote “Office Romance” specifically for Jennifer Lopez, and the Netflix romantic comedy is now streaming after debuting June 5, 2026. Goldstein co-wrote the script with his Ted Lasso collaborator Joe Kelly, and the pair had Lopez in mind from the start—so much so that they sent her the finished script with a note saying, “We wrote this for you. You’re at the top of our list. It’s a list of one.”
The idea for the film came to Goldstein and Kelly during a three-hour train ride between the Ted Lasso set in Manchester and London while filming the show’s third season. Both men are fans of what Goldstein calls “old school rom-coms,” and their conversation eventually turned to writing one themselves. “We felt like we hadn’t seen a great one in a long time,” Goldstein explained. “We were both like, ‘Who’s your dream person to make a rom-com with?’ Without hesitation, we were both like, ‘J.Lo, because she’s the best rom-com actor.’ So we decided to write one for her.”
Goldstein assumed the dream would never happen. “We thought this was never going to happen. We had never met Jennifer — as far as I was concerned, she was a mythical creature,” he said. Lopez, however, was already a fan of Goldstein’s work, particularly his role as Roy Kent on Ted Lasso. “I was a fan of his. People know that I’m obsessed with Ted Lasso,” she said. When she received the script, she was moved by the gesture. “When he sent the script, I was just like, ‘They wrote this for me?’ It was great.”
Brett Goldstein wrote ‘Office Romance’ for Jennifer Lopez, now streaming on Netflix
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Directed by Ol Parker, the film stars Lopez as Jackie Cruz, a powerful airline CEO, and Goldstein as Daniel Blanchflower, a company lawyer. The movie marks a shift in Lopez’s rom-com roles. “Office Romance is the first time I’m the boss,” she noted. “Jackie built this company. It’s usually the woman who is hoping to be saved in romantic comedies. But that isn’t the case at all here.”
Sources
- Netflix Tudum — Brett Goldstein’s co-writing credit, the genesis of the script during Ted Lasso filming, and direct quotes from both Goldstein and Lopez about the project
- Wikipedia — Film credits confirming Goldstein and Joe Kelly as writers and Ol Parker as director
