Jennifer Lopez has fallen over the new Prime Video series Off Campus after lead actor Mika Abdalla channeled the pop star’s most iconic fashion moment on screen.
The romance show became an overnight hit after its debut on Wednesday, May 13, with the steamiest scenes quickly going viral on social media.
One particular clip that caught the attention of the 56-year-old global superstar shows Abdalla’s character, Allie Hayes, recreating Lopez’s famous dive green Versace jungle dress from the 2000 Grammys, prompting Lopez to repost the footage on X with the enthusiastic caption, “love this shoooowww.”
The high-fashion moment takes place early in the series when Allie crosses paths with hockey player Dean Di Laurentis, played by Stephen Kalyn, at a Halloween party.
The legendary dress itself has a long history in the fashion world, having first been modeled by Amber Valletta during Versace’s Spring/Summer 2000 runway show in 1999, before Lopez famously made it a cultural phenomenon at the Grammy Awards and later wore a recreated version on the runway in 2019.
Abdalla, 26, recently took to TikTok to share the intense behind-the-scenes process required to bring the iconic outfit to life for the show.
In a clip shared by Betches UK, the actress revealed that the outfit had to be built completely from scratch, a process that required five separate fittings.
She recalled how her very first session involved donning a nude leotard so the team could cut it up and attach the material directly to her, adding that she was so deeply into the finished product that she felt ready to dance the night away.
The actress also admitted that her own intuition told her that the scene would be a massive talking point for fans, despite the Halloween storyline not actually appearing in Elle Kennedy’s original book series.
speaks to PEOPLEexplained Abdalla that when they got closer to completing the dress and she saw how it looked on camera during filming, she knew it would be a hit with audiences.
The popular new Prime Video adaptation is based on the fem book Off Campus franchise, which mostly follows the complicated love lives of various hockey players at the fictional Briar University.
