Sanaa Lathan & Omar Epps 15 Years Later After ‘Love & Basketball’: Q Claims Lovebirds Would've Divorced in Sequel

It's been 15 years, but the film Love & Basketball still melts our hearts every time we watch Quincy McCall (Omar Epps) and Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) fall in love over and over again.

Now that the real life fairytale lovers are no longer with each other, fans want to know if there would be a sequel. In a new interview with Essence, Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan reveal what they have been up to since their romance ended on the hit film.

Epps, 41, is now married to someone else and seems to believe that the story of Love & Basketball would've taken a different approach if a part two was shown.

"Instinctively I would show the other side of love, like how Monica and Quincy didn't make it-to me it could be more interesting. It's all opinion, some people want to see left, some people want to see right," Epps claimed if the movie was to continue.

Lathan had a different theory and predicted that the couple would've stayed together as she continued her success in the WNBA.

"I see Monica having a great career in the WNBA and maybe becoming a coach," she admitted.

As for their characters, Epps revealed that he couldn't relate to the character at all because he grew up without a father.

"I didn't identify with the character at all. He had a mother and a father; I grew up without a father. He was popular and I wasn't a popular kid. I don't think any of us artists/actors were popular kids; it kind of doesn't work that way. We are like the weirdoes growing up. [laughs] Quincy was an athlete. I played football growing up but I wasn't trying to do it professionally. For me it's always fun to discover those characters that you don't naturally relate to versus playing characters that you can relate to," he explained.

Lathan claims she could relate to Monica because she's a woman who believed a career could cause conflict with relationships. As an actress, Lathan's personal life has probaby taken a few hits here and there.

"Well I'm a romantic, so I understand that kind of growing up in love and falling in love and going through the struggles of being in a relationship and how a career path can be a conflict to a relationship, or not," Lathan stated.

She added about her character, "It was a great role and I knew a good script, even early in my career I knew that those scripts don't come around that often. It was emotional."

Epps claims the movie was empowering for women, as they try to find their fairytale prince charming.

"I think it's sort of that fairytale love story for women. Monica and Quincy had a real friendship and that's the basis of every great relationship which is really hard to do. It's that fairytale where you grow up with someone, you know him or her as a person, [end up] taking their virginity, then she [moves on] and lives her life, he lives his. Then they go off to college. I think that part of it is timeless," he said. "I just thought it was a dope script, it's really empowering for women, certain undertones of the film resonated with me also. I just thought it was fresh, I thought it was of that time and progressive and we hadn't seen something like that."

As for a part two of Love & Basketball, the former couple doesn't think that story will happen because they like it the way it is.

"I'm not sure if the director Gina [Prince Bythewood] wants to do a sequel, I think Love & Basketball is perfect the way it is. But it depends, like with one of my other films, Best Man Holiday, originally I wasn't into the idea of a sequel but when I read the script I was like OK this makes sense, so it always depends," Lathan revealead.

Epps chimed and said: "Gina and I actually spoke about that and she has this you-don't-touch-a-classic-thing and I agree but it's tempting because it's like what would the story look like now. The best sequels are when they were in mind during the original, when you are searching for the sequel that's when it doesn't really work."

MStars News wants to know, would you want to see a sequel to this fairytale romance? Or just remember your favorite part?