Anthony Ramos pulled out of Jennifer Lopez's “This Is Me...Now” because of Marc Anthony

The "In the Heights" actor was set to dance with Lopez in her "Rebound" number.

Anthony Ramos is very committed to the bro code.

In The Greatest Love Story Never Told, a behind-the-scenes doc (streaming now on Amazon Prime Video) that chronicles the making of Jennifer Lopez's This Is Me...Now, we learn that the In the Heights star was originally attached to star in a musical number with Lopez.

Ramos was meant to play the toxic suitor in the film's "Rebound" number, a dance that features Lopez and her partner in a crumbling glass house, attached via a springy rope that keeps pulling them back together — all used as a metaphor for her inability to quit unhealthy relationships.

For Ramos, who is known best for In the Heights and his role as a member of the original Broadway cast of Hamilton, it would have been an opportunity to perform alongside one of the biggest stars of stage and screen. But the number apparently made him uncomfortable because of his friendship with one of Lopez's exes, Marc Anthony.

In the documentary, we see Lopez on the phone with Ramos, and though we don't hear him, it's understood that he has expressed his discomfort with the number and his sense that some audiences might read it as a critique of Lopez's marriage to Anthony. "I didn't know that you and Marc were good friends, I didn't know that. But that's nice," she tells Ramos, going on to explain her vision of "Rebound" and the story she's telling. "He's the father of my kids, obviously. I'm never going to do anything that's going to really pinpoint him out, but it is very meta. It's kind of about the 20-year journey between that last album and this album, and a lot of things happened. There were a lot of relationships that I was in. The thing you're playing is representative of many relationships, not one specific relationship."

Alas, Lopez wasn't able to change Ramos' mind. (Dancer Gilbert Saldivar, instead, plays that role in "Rebound.")

Lopez and Anthony married in 2004, after having previously dated in the late 1990s, after the end of her two-year marriage to former backup dancer Cris Judd. (Lopez and Affleck began dating in 2002, after she separated from Judd.) Lopez and Anthony were married until 2014 (they first separated in 2011), and their twins, Emme and Max, born in 2008.

Throughout the documentary, we see Lopez wrestle with people declining to be part of the project. "People scared, scared to put themselves out there," Lopez reflects in the documentary. "I get it. Took me a long time. I'm scared. I don't act like I'm scared. That's the secret to my whole f---ing career."

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