What, you thought Jennifer Lopez visited the hood from time to time?

In a commercial for the car company Fiat, Lopez is seen driving around New York City’s poorest borough, the Bronx, but it turns out she never left a Los Angeles sound stage for the commercial.

 ”This is my world. This place inspires me.” Lopez says in the commercial’s voiceover as she drives around the streets of the Bronx in a $16,000 Fiat 500 Cabrio. “They may be just streets to you, but to me they’re a playground.”

A playground she doesn’t visit much. The Smoking Gun reports:

Instead, the role of “Jenny from the Block” was played by a body double, according to two sources familiar with the commercial production. While the Lopez lookalike was actually behind the wheel in the Bronx, Lopez herself was in Los Angeles, where she was filmed inside a Fiat 500.

The shots of the actress were artfully merged to make it appear that she was tooling around New York City’s poorest borough. Big Block, a Los Angeles digital production studio, was hired to merge live action footage with computer-generated imagery to make it appear as if Lopez was in the Bronx.

The ruse tricked scores of media outlets—from The Wall Street Journal to automotive blogs—who reported that a centerpiece of the Lopez/Fiat partnership was the production of a 60-second commercial titled “My World,” which Fiat began running last month on network and cable TV outlets.

The Bronx contains one of the five poorest Congressional Districts in the U.S., the 16th, but its wide variety of neighborhoods also includes the affluent Riverdale and Country Club.

JR