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Over three months have passed since the purported Ayo Edebiri and Jennifer Lopez drama, which according to The Bear star, was merely ridiculous chatter. In a recent Vanity Fair cover story, Edebiri deemed the speculated beef between her and the “Let’s Get Loud” songstress to be absurd, and offered up a hilarious analogy.
“That would be like Mr. Bean and Mick Jagger beefing,” she claimed, “and I’m obviously Mr. Bean. She’s J. Lo!”
Back in February, just ahead of Edebiri and Lopez’s joint appearances on Saturday Night Live, a 2020 Scam Goddess podcast resurfaced, on which Edebiri had described J. Lo’s “whole career” as “one long scam.”
Fortunately, the two stars handled the situation like the professionals they are. Lopez recalled to Variety that prior to the show, Edebiri, who was “mortified and very sweet,” approached her in her dressing room and “apologized with tears in her eyes, saying how terrible it was that she had said those things.”
“She felt really badly and loved my performance because we had just done my soundcheck and she actually got to hear me perform,” Lopez shared at the time. “She was just like, ‘I’m so fucking sorry, it was so awful of me.'”
Edebiri reiterated this sentiment to Vanity Fair, highlighting that Lopez “was very chill and nice about it.”
Even before Edebiri’s recent Mr. Bean and Mick Jagger quip, her and Lopez’s rumored feud was quickly funneled into SNL material, as Edebiri seemingly addressed the lesson she took away in a sketch titled “Why’d You Say It?”
During the bit, Edebiri’s character highlighted that “it’s wrong to leave mean comments, or post comments just for clout, or run your mouth on a podcast, and you don’t consider the impact because you’re 24 and stupid.”
This lesson was also espoused by Tina Fey, who advised Bowen Yang on his Culturistas podcast to learn from both her and Edebiri, noting that “podcasts are forever” and joking that “authenticity is dangerous and expensive.”
