Paula Patton wants to set the record straight. She didn’t jump the broom when she married R&B singer Robin Thicke — and it’s not because she didn’t want to.
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“I have to be real with you, I did not know of this tradition of jumping the broom until I read the script for the movie and that’s the truth,” she frankly admits.
A tradition practiced in the early part of the 19th century among African-Americans, it’s a concept the actress says she would have considered, had she known about it.
“A lot of my friends who have gotten married didn’t do it either. I read the script and started taking to people and realized that it’s a tradition that is not done a lot of the time, but it is something that is done,” Patton continues. “I was fascinated by it and I would have jumped the broom had I known about it. I think the idea that you are sweeping the past away, forming a union and jumping into the future to become a family is a beautiful idea.”
In “Jumping the Broom”, which is directed by Salim Akil (“The Game”), Patton plays Sabrina Watson, a corporate lawyer who gets hitched to a Wall Street broker, Jason Taylor (Laz Alonso), after dating for six-months. With a wedding in the planning stages, things don’t go as smoothly as planned when their very different families meet for the first time at the plush Mart
