Saints player Juwan Johnson and wife Chanen laugh all the way to the bank as comedy TikTok stars ‘Ju and Chan’ | Entertainment/Life

As Juwan and Chanen Johnson stroll through Bywater on a scorching Sunday afternoon, they carry an odd accessory: a tripod. The Johnsons are on the hunt for a filming location where they’ll create a new video for their 2 million TikTok followers.

After assessing the aesthetic qualities of a space outside a restaurant, Chanen selects a wall of greenery as their backdrop. Juwan, a second-year player for the New Orleans Saints, secures his phone in the tripod and hits record. Then, the couple proceeds to jump, crouch and glide in every direction, as if they’re in some kind of intensive aerobics class.

To create their version of a TikTok challenge, in which people try to avoid being cropped out of a succession of photos while the dimensions of the picture constantly shift to the tune of “The Hustle” by Van McCoy, they need only two takes — each lasting

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