“Yes, yes, yes. Not way before, but yes,” Jordan quipped.
“But don’t you think that being on that soap so many years ago prepared you for playing twins?” Ripa asked, referring to his Oscar-winning performance as identical twins Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore.
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“Without a doubt,” Jordan, who played Reggie Porter Montgomery on the hit soap opera, replied, eliciting laughs from Ripa and Consuelos. “No, I’m not even trying to be funny. I think the work ethic of soap operas is so underrated and overlooked.”
Ripa told Jordan that she and Consuelos were “truly tickled” for him in the wake of his big win.
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