Get to know Jordan Hull, the actress who’s gone from hanging out at the mall in her conservative hometown to acting alongside Queen Latifah and Adam Sandler
. “I thought they were one and the same—this could-kill-you-with-one-look-type who wears a lot of blazers,” Hull recalls over Zoom from her apartment in Los Angeles. “So I showed up in this blazer I’d just bought from Zara, the tag still on. And she came in with this awesome turquoise scarf and whole Buddha thing—she’d just been meditating. It was the complete opposite of what I thought. We immediately clicked.
By the end of lunch, they were fully acquainted; Beals even knew about Hull’s earnest attempt to impress her after trying to remove the Zara tag sticking out of her jacket. “She couldn't do it, so she stood up," Hull recalls. "We’re both standing up in the middle of the lunch, and she’s calling over to the kitchen,?” Hull has come to regard Beals and Laurel Holloman, her other on-screen mom on, as family, almost from the trio’s very first moment together at a cast dinner.