Speaker 1: We've spent the last few episodes talking about j Loo.
Speaker 1: We've dished on how she's changed the fashion game. Then
Speaker 1: we told you how she's danced and sung her way
Speaker 1: into a twenty year career. Girl, we haven't even scratched
Speaker 1: the surface. Joseph, what do you think it takes to
Speaker 1: have a long lasting career in Hollywood? A lot of botox? Okay,
Speaker 1: what about charisma? That too? And when it comes to Jennifer,
Speaker 1: everyone can agree on one thing. She is Hella charismatic.
Speaker 1: It pops off the screen, whether it's on at the
Speaker 1: handle stage, beatybabyma Baby, beaty beaty baby, BENI bum, take
Speaker 1: us back, take us back, or in a trunk with
Speaker 1: a young er George Clooney, bitch, locked me up and
Speaker 1: throw away the key, or dancing on a pole. This
Speaker 1: woman exudes Correa. On today's episode, we look back at
Speaker 1: her thirty year acting career, how she went from the
Speaker 1: dancer that nobody believed could act to one of the
Speaker 1: highest paid actresses in Hollywood, from Selena to hustlers. This
Speaker 1: is j Loo the actor. I'm your host, Lilian Vasquez
Speaker 1: and I'm Joseph Carrillo, and this is becoming an icon
Speaker 1: a weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on
Speaker 1: how today's most famous latint stars have shaped pop culture
Speaker 1: and given the world some extress able Sit back and
Speaker 1: get comfortable, because we are going in the only way
Speaker 1: we know how with Buena's some cheesy and a lot
Speaker 1: of opinions as we relive their greatest achievements on our
Speaker 1: journey to find out what makes them so iconic. What
Speaker 1: is your favorite j Loo movie? Oh? My god, am
Speaker 1: I Drew Barrymore right? Now? Is there a right or
Speaker 1: wrong answer to this? Are you going to come my
Speaker 1: partner by a pool? No, it's just a question. I
Speaker 1: just want you to answer honestly, like quick. What is
Speaker 1: your favorite Jlo movie? Wedding Planner? I hate that I
Speaker 1: said that? Why? I love that you said that you
Speaker 1: love a good rom com? I do, but I hate
Speaker 1: that I love that. Okay, well, you don't have to
Speaker 1: tell us why you love it, because later in this
Speaker 1: episode we're going to rank our favorite j Loo movies.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna have to wait for that and for
Speaker 1: me to reveal my favorite Jlo movie. Last time, we
Speaker 1: discussed how for Jlo it all started with dancing. But
Speaker 1: remember she wanted to do it all a triple threat
Speaker 1: like Rita in West Side Store, and even Mama Lupa
Speaker 1: thought Jennifer was born an actress, which is why she enroled.
Speaker 1: Jennifer in theater classes as a child. Money well spent
Speaker 1: if you ask me, because Jenny landed her very first
Speaker 1: acting gig at the young age of sixteen. The film
Speaker 1: was called My Little Girl, and it premiered at Sundance
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven. Eighty seven. I think I missed
Speaker 1: Sundance that year. You weren't even born, were you. Yeah?
Speaker 1: Not many people saw the movie, but it didn't matter
Speaker 1: to Jennifer. She was on set with Mary Stuart Masterson
Speaker 1: and James Earl Jones. Say it again. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: getting advice and working with James Earl Jones. I mean,
Speaker 1: so he can tell me I'm going to be king,
Speaker 1: which I've been knowing. So let's fast forward to nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety three in Living Color is just her day job,
Speaker 1: and at night she's taking acting classes. Every single night
Speaker 1: that summer, she gets booked to tour the world with
Speaker 1: Janet Jackson. Excuse me, miss Jackson, if you're nasty, fine, fine,
Speaker 1: Miss Jackson. The year's nineteen ninety three. She's one of
Speaker 1: the biggest stars in the world and touring with her
Speaker 1: is a very big deal. But last second, Jlo calls
Speaker 1: and says, y'all, I'm out. Jlo had to take control.
Speaker 1: That summer, she gets offered a role on the Fox
Speaker 1: comedy show South Central. She was already on in Living Color,
Speaker 1: but this was her first legit acting job on television.
Speaker 1: She wasn't a series regular, just a recurring role, but
Speaker 1: it was a big break and a few months into
Speaker 1: the show, well it got canceled. I hate getting canceled.
Speaker 1: Wait did someone cancel you? Well, not yet, but let's
Speaker 1: be honest, it's just a matter of time. Okay. So
Speaker 1: Jlo got back to acting and auditioning, but there just
Speaker 1: weren't a whole lot of rules for lefting out women
Speaker 1: out there, and to be honest, there still aren't. Jenny
Speaker 1: Jlo kept grinding and going to auditions for films and
Speaker 1: television roles, and in her own words, she says, if
Speaker 1: you're going to make it in the business, you need
Speaker 1: the kind of personality that you have to do it
Speaker 1: or die. There's no alternative. Listen, you have to keep
Speaker 1: showing up in the rooms and trying even when they
Speaker 1: turn you down, You're getting your name out there. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Jennifer was doing. She was gaining recognition
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. In nineteen ninety five, that's when things started
Speaker 1: falling into place. She gets a supporting role in Mefa Media,
Speaker 1: a movie about three generations of a Latino family living
Speaker 1: in southern California. In the movie, she plays Maria Sanchez,
Speaker 1: a woman who carries her infant son across a raging
Speaker 1: river after being deported for one scene. They offered Jlo
Speaker 1: a stunt double, but she said, no, Mama, I'm freezing
Speaker 1: to death if I have to. The girl was committed.
Speaker 1: That commitment was honored with a Best Supporting Actress Nation
Speaker 1: at the nineteen ninety five Independent Spirit Awards, and it
Speaker 1: impressed the director Gregory Nava, who would later cast Jennifer
Speaker 1: in a little biopic he was working on at the time. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know which one first, though, hold on, hold on?
Speaker 1: She gets cast in Money Train. Have you seen that one?
Speaker 1: I think it was a Sundance the year I didn't go,
Speaker 1: of course, right, So here's why I bring it up.
Speaker 1: That movie stars Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes, who of
Speaker 1: course had just come off White Men Can't Jump and
Speaker 1: had incredible chemistry. The entire movie is built around them
Speaker 1: being charming and funny. But you want to know what happens.
Speaker 1: Jay Low takes the screen with them, and she is
Speaker 1: literally all you can look at. There's that charisma exactly.
Speaker 1: You can just see her on screen and realize that
Speaker 1: she's a star. And both of her co stars saw
Speaker 1: it too. Did you know that Harrelson and Snipes both
Speaker 1: hit on her? It was like they were fighting for
Speaker 1: her love? Shut your but yes, I know. She had
Speaker 1: two of Hollywood's leading men both buying after her, but
Speaker 1: she was dating her first serious partner, David Cruz at
Speaker 1: the time, so she turned them both down. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: tell me more about David Cruz please. You know what
Speaker 1: the thing is with him is that there's not a
Speaker 1: lot to tell, but you can hear all about it
Speaker 1: in next week's episode when we dish on Jalo's love life. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's get back to that biopic Gregory Nava was
Speaker 1: going to film. It's about a young the Hannah singer
Speaker 1: named Selena, Yes, Joseph Selena Abraham Kentthenia Selena's father had
Speaker 1: announced that Nava would be directing and writing the movie
Speaker 1: about the Hannah Singer, and obviously, since he had directed
Speaker 1: Me Familia, Jennifer was a shoe in right. I hate
Speaker 1: to burst your bubble here, but I'm going to fact
Speaker 1: check you. Selena's father made Lopez audition. What the fuzz
Speaker 1: my girl journey? Don't read for any part? Well, if
Speaker 1: you knew Abraham Kentthenia you would understand. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: We know she got the role, but she ended up
Speaker 1: having to beat twenty two thousand other applicants, so it
Speaker 1: took a very long time, to the point that between
Speaker 1: auditions she had time to work on not one, but
Speaker 1: two other productions, Blood and Wine and then Anaconda. Damn Anaconda.
Speaker 1: Don't want none unless you got bunns hun. I love
Speaker 1: the nineties. Why are we doing an entire podcast about
Speaker 1: the ninety We roll the next one? The next one? Okay? Mine?
Speaker 1: Now that being said, with Selena, Jennifer became the first
Speaker 1: Latina actress to be paid a million dollars for a film.
Speaker 1: I remember there was a lot of reservations about the film.
Speaker 1: Development started only a year after her passing. I think
Speaker 1: that's what triggered a lot of people. They felt the
Speaker 1: family was making money play using their daughter's name. Don't
Speaker 1: you need to mourn the loss of your daughter, of
Speaker 1: your sister, of your wife, or as hello. I just
Speaker 1: felt the movie had a lot of controversy surrounding it.
Speaker 1: Did you watch it in the theaters when it came out?
Speaker 1: Did I did? I'm from al Paso, Texas, so Mitch,
Speaker 1: you know I was watching that movie. Oh no, we
Speaker 1: all were. I mean, I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that you and I share is we're both Texans Mexicanos,
Speaker 1: and we were teens tweens when this all happened. I
Speaker 1: remember the day Selena died because my mom came and
Speaker 1: pulled me out of school. No, yes, she was so devastated.
Speaker 1: She came and got me and I was like, what
Speaker 1: why are you here? And then like it was a
Speaker 1: whole thing, we went to my Thea's house. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was major. So the fact that this happened and
Speaker 1: then a year later, year about this project about Selena
Speaker 1: was like not enough time. Time had passed. But the
Speaker 1: bigger controversy was the fact that Jennifer, who was Puerto
Speaker 1: Rican is going to be playing Selena, who was the
Speaker 1: Hannah Mexicana. I mean, people were pissed. I was pissed.
Speaker 1: I'm still pissed. Okay, fair and I was with you originally.
Speaker 1: But who else at that time could have possibly played
Speaker 1: the role Personally. I don't think that we have Selena
Speaker 1: the movie, the legendary, the iconic film without Jennifer Lopez
Speaker 1: in this role. I don't know that we have Jennifer
Speaker 1: Lopez as of today without this role. I agree. I
Speaker 1: was about to say that Jayla wouldn't be the force
Speaker 1: that she is because in that movie, it proved the singing,
Speaker 1: the dancing, the everything. This role was made for her.
Speaker 1: I feel like that Selena's spirit went in to Jaylo.
Speaker 1: I'm serious. I think Selena would have been this Selena
Speaker 1: would have been Jaylo. They kind of merged. No I know,
Speaker 1: I'm getting I'm literally getting goosebumps and Selena. The film
Speaker 1: went on to make over eleven million dollars on its
Speaker 1: opening weekend. The role also earned Jennifer a Golden Globe
Speaker 1: nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or
Speaker 1: Comedy and propelled her to Hollywood stardom Baby, and the
Speaker 1: film's success even boosted Anaconda, a movie about a ginormous
Speaker 1: snake that had ice cubin it, which was released just
Speaker 1: a month later. Jlo got it to a hundred million
Speaker 1: at the box office. I thought it was Semia l. Jackson. No,
Speaker 1: that's snakes on a plane now, Well, bitch, how many
Speaker 1: snake movies are there? Way way too many. But with this,
Speaker 1: Jlo had officially cemented herself as a serious actress, making
Speaker 1: Hollywood her own. She was working with everyone. She did
Speaker 1: a Francis Ford Coppola movie, with Robin Williams, she did
Speaker 1: a movie with Jack Nicholson. Well, even Oliver Stone was
Speaker 1: calling her Jenny, that boy Cray. She had no choice
Speaker 1: but to ride the wave of this success. And what
Speaker 1: better project to take on than a film directed by
Speaker 1: Steven Soderbergh aka the Father of Ocean's trilogy. Out of
Speaker 1: Sight came out in nineteen ninety eight and it was
Speaker 1: a huge success. It was originally supposed to be George
Speaker 1: Clooney opposite Sandra Bullock. Really yeah, but Jlo beat out
Speaker 1: Sander for the role. Soderbergh said that while Bullock and
Speaker 1: Clooney had great chemistry. It just wasn't right for the
Speaker 1: movie they were trying to make. There's that charisma again.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if you guys have not seen out
Speaker 1: of Sight, please go back and watch it. I could
Speaker 1: not believe that Clooney and Jlo weren't an item after
Speaker 1: I saw that movie in nineteen ninety eight. They were
Speaker 1: buyer on screen. So much sexual chemistry, so much tension,
Speaker 1: and the movie is just so well written. If I'm
Speaker 1: going to be honest, it's I think some of her
Speaker 1: best work. That's a claim for Out of Sight. J
Speaker 1: Loo doubled her Selina earnings and ended up taking home
Speaker 1: a paycheck of two million dollars. And like you said,
Speaker 1: these two are just electric in this movie. The two
Speaker 1: of them even got nominated for an MTME Movie Award
Speaker 1: for Best Kiss. Oh my god, did they kiss? Did
Speaker 1: they kiss on stage? Sorry, Joseph, they did not blame.
Speaker 1: And here's a little insider t Allegedly the two of
Speaker 1: them hated each other on set. What I know, it
Speaker 1: just proves that our girl j Loo can act. And
Speaker 1: the movie was so good it ended up earning two
Speaker 1: OSCAR nominations Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film editing. Jennifer
Speaker 1: had made it. She was bona fide in the industry
Speaker 1: and girl was out there were king By the time
Speaker 1: the film was released, she had already filmed six other movies,
Speaker 1: and yes, that includes The Cell, Angel Eyes, Enough, Joseph's Favorite,
Speaker 1: and An Unfinished Life for Me. She was looking really
Speaker 1: high fashion in The Cell. Yeah. It didn't receive a
Speaker 1: nomination for Best Makeup at the Oscars for nothing. The makeup,
Speaker 1: hair and wardrobe on this film was very special because
Speaker 1: Jalo never Jalo is romcom Jlo is Selena. Jalo likes
Speaker 1: to look pretty. Jalo likes the hair and the busticaca,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. This it was heavy eyeliner, it was gossica.
Speaker 1: It was pointy cupid's bow that's the little soft part
Speaker 1: on the top of your lip. It was fashion. It
Speaker 1: was dramatic, but fashion. Yeah, No, totally. And I think
Speaker 1: you're right. I don't think we've really ever seen Jlo
Speaker 1: transform for a role. You think about all of the
Speaker 1: women that are her contemporaries. You think of Charlie's Theron,
Speaker 1: you think of Angelina Jolie, right, You think of how
Speaker 1: they transform from movies, and that's not really the kind
Speaker 1: of roles that, well, we don't know, but either Jlo
Speaker 1: doesn't pursue those roles or the industry isn't bringing her
Speaker 1: those roles. And I think you're right. In the Cell
Speaker 1: was the first time where she was more like a
Speaker 1: character versus Oh, this is a dowdy version of Jlo. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is the down and out version of jl in
Speaker 1: even in Enough. It's funny you say that because those
Speaker 1: two movies stand out to me because I feel like
Speaker 1: in Hustlers, it's still very much to Jlo we know,
Speaker 1: but in Enough and in the Cell, it's Jenny from
Speaker 1: the Block to your point, at Hustler's very Jenny in
Speaker 1: the Block. Enough in the Cell were just so so so,
Speaker 1: still to this day, very different than anything she's ever done.
Speaker 1: Despite what she had accomplished when it came to Jlo,
Speaker 1: Hollywood just really didn't know what to do with her.
Speaker 1: Most of the great roles kept going to guess the
Speaker 1: white actresses. It wasn't until she had her breakout role
Speaker 1: in Selena that people started taking her seriously. Despite the
Speaker 1: fact that she was already working with big names both
Speaker 1: in front of and behind the camera. She definitely used
Speaker 1: that to her advantage. She didn't see the fact that
Speaker 1: she was Latina as a hindrance. She embraced it, and
Speaker 1: what better way to embrace it than in romantic comedies.
Speaker 1: At this point, everyone knows she can act, but Jlo
Speaker 1: is a woman that believes in love. She believes in
Speaker 1: the fairy tale of it all. Like them calling you
Speaker 1: back when they promised they would, is everything okay? Joe,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm fine. He knows who he is. Back
Speaker 1: to Jenny. She wanted to prove that Latina's could experience
Speaker 1: love too, both in real life and on the big screen.
Speaker 1: So in two thousand and one, she enters a whole
Speaker 1: new phase in her career and takes over romcoms with
Speaker 1: The Wedding Planner. It was directed by Adam Shankerton and
Speaker 1: starred Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey. All Right, All Right,
Speaker 1: All Ride. The film had been in development for years,
Speaker 1: with the likes of Mini Driver, Jennifer Love, Hewittt and
Speaker 1: Sarah Michelle go Wow, they're cute, but they're not Jennifer,
Speaker 1: not even clothes. The film was in production and development
Speaker 1: while she was still known as just Jennifer Lopez, but
Speaker 1: by the time the film premiered, everyone would know these
Speaker 1: three letters. Jay l Oh j Loo was born on
Speaker 1: January twenty three. She released her album j Loo. Three
Speaker 1: days later, Sony released her rom com, making history by
Speaker 1: having a number one album and a number one film
Speaker 1: at the same time. You better work, bitch. Why do
Speaker 1: you think Jlo is still lovable as a romcom lead? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: think about the checklist of romcom leads. What are the
Speaker 1: things that we as an audience require our stars to
Speaker 1: be in a romcom. You want them to be accessible,
Speaker 1: You want them to be pretty. You need them to
Speaker 1: be funny, but not too funny. You need them to
Speaker 1: be slightly more successful than you because you do want
Speaker 1: them to be a little aspirational, but not too much.
Speaker 1: And you need to feel they make mistakes along the
Speaker 1: way and that they can be rescued. So you're describing
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts to the tea, yes, but I'm also describing
Speaker 1: j Lo. Think about it. She hits every single one
Speaker 1: of those notes, and that's why, during this time in
Speaker 1: her life, she was the reigning rom com queen. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right. And then she gave us a
Speaker 1: maide in Manhattan, which is basically pretty Woman exactly. And
Speaker 1: while many would believe the Cinderella Story was adamant about
Speaker 1: commenting on race and ethnics, did you know that that
Speaker 1: role was originally offered to Sandra Bullock before it was
Speaker 1: even option to j Loo. I literally cannot believe that.
Speaker 1: I know. I can't even imagine this movie without Jennifer.
Speaker 1: And while the critics didn't love it, audiences ate it up.
Speaker 1: It was one of her highest grossing films at the time,
Speaker 1: despite lukewarm responses from the critics. But Jennifer wasn't just
Speaker 1: working her magic on screen. Behind the scenes, she was
Speaker 1: starting her own production company, New yor Rekan Productions. I
Speaker 1: love that she named it that same get it Jlo.
Speaker 1: She brought the six back, bitch. She's like, can I
Speaker 1: ride this six all the way to Hollywood? Let me
Speaker 1: get on that trade, Let me get that New York Weekend.
Speaker 1: Get that New York Weekend train up here. Next up
Speaker 1: in the Holy Trinity of Jenny from the Block Romcoms
Speaker 1: is Monster. The two thousand and five romantic comedy film
Speaker 1: starred Jennifer Lopez, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes, and the one
Speaker 1: and only Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda. This was Jane Fonda's
Speaker 1: first film in like fifteen years, and Lopez brought Fonda
Speaker 1: back into the acting world on theme with Jalo releases
Speaker 1: around this time. Critics couldn't vibe with the script or
Speaker 1: even Lopez herself, but it didn't matter. It was still
Speaker 1: a box office hit. It also earned Jennifer a fifteen
Speaker 1: million dollar paycheck, making her the highest paid actress in
Speaker 1: Hollywood's history at that time. One that's super crazy because
Speaker 1: she was Latina, and two the critics could shove it.
Speaker 1: I loved Monster in Law. I'm sorry the blend of
Speaker 1: physical comedy with actual comedy on screen. When Jane and
Speaker 1: Jalo slap each other back and forth and back and forth,
Speaker 1: it gets no better than two divas on screen literally
Speaker 1: slapping the shit out of each other. I need to
Speaker 1: talk to the critics who didn't like it. I just
Speaker 1: really want to know why, because I thought it was
Speaker 1: I don't live in a heterosexual norm where I know
Speaker 1: what it is to have like a husband and a a
Speaker 1: Monster in Law. I mean, I guess I could, because
Speaker 1: I could be buried, But anyways, I just imagine it
Speaker 1: would be so so real the movie was so good.
Speaker 1: Wanda Sykes is one of the best parts of that film.
Speaker 1: The reason I love it and it has a whole
Speaker 1: new meaning to me now is that I have a
Speaker 1: son who is obviously a golden child, and no woman
Speaker 1: will ever be deserving of his hand in marriage. So
Speaker 1: oh oh oh, I see, I see you see the future.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to our star. Jennifer was in her
Speaker 1: rom Calm Prime. Wait wait wait, wait, wait, we didn't
Speaker 1: talk about Jeelie. We have to come on. Just make
Speaker 1: it quick, make it quick, make it quick. Oh okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so Geelie. All right. It was a very hot script.
Speaker 1: Everybody wanted to make it. Ben Affleck gets attached. He,
Speaker 1: of course, at this time, has an oscar. He's one
Speaker 1: of the biggest box office draws alive. Then he started
Speaker 1: dating Jennifer and the tabloids couldn't print photos fast enough.
Speaker 1: Benefit becomes a national obsession. So you're thinking the movie
Speaker 1: can't fail, right, except it does. The film is an
Speaker 1: epic disaster. It's an embarrassment and the biggest punchline of
Speaker 1: the year. Damn right. Affleck even when on Jay Leno
Speaker 1: and reads the reviews and making fun of Julie. Should
Speaker 1: we read that? Okay, you might do the first one. Okay,
Speaker 1: Julie will appeal to celebrity gawkers and the certifiably insane.
Speaker 1: Or how about this one? Jeelie is so horrible that
Speaker 1: I had to go home and cleanse my palette by
Speaker 1: watching Glitter. That one is really low. By the way, y'all,
Speaker 1: these are actual reviews. We are not this talented of writers.
Speaker 1: Here's another one, speculating that the three point eight million
Speaker 1: that Julie has grossed is from the purchase of two
Speaker 1: one point nine million dollar tickets by Lopez an Affleck.
Speaker 1: The New York Times headline after Julie came out read
Speaker 1: Ben and gen finally get some privacy. Damn NYT. That's rough.
Speaker 1: That's harsh. Did you see it? I did not. I
Speaker 1: it didn't get my attention, nothing, none of it. Zero.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you? Sorry? Sorry? Sorry, sorry, I didn't
Speaker 1: see you. Oh, miss number, Miss number. No, I can't
Speaker 1: do my girl dirty like that. I knew what I
Speaker 1: was in for. I wasn't going to watch it. No,
Speaker 1: thank you hard pass all this benefit drama really messed
Speaker 1: with her heart, her mind and her momentum. But she's
Speaker 1: no quitter, and she just kept it moving. In two
Speaker 1: thousand and six, she produced Elgante, starring her and her
Speaker 1: baby daddy, Mark Anthony, but after filming she decided to
Speaker 1: take some time off to raise the twins. And after
Speaker 1: that her rom Combs took on a different theme love,
Speaker 1: marriage and babies, which, to be honest, isn't really that
Speaker 1: different from the movies that came before. But you could
Speaker 1: tell that she was embracing her new mommy status. She
Speaker 1: had the backup plan in two ten, what to Expect
Speaker 1: when You're expecting in twos and twelve, and then, just
Speaker 1: when the world thought that j Loo would be happy
Speaker 1: making rom combs for the rest of her career, Oh shit,
Speaker 1: are we talking Hustlers? You know it? Twenty nineteen Hustlers.
Speaker 1: The film was originally being developed from Martin Scorsese, but
Speaker 1: no one could figure out how to tell the story.
Speaker 1: That's when director Loreen's got Fatia stepped in and she
Speaker 1: brought Jennifer Lopez along with her. The film is based
Speaker 1: on a twenty fifteen New York Magazine article about a
Speaker 1: crew of New York City strippers who steal money from
Speaker 1: CEOs and stock traders who frequented their club. Get that money, Haney,
Speaker 1: Well it was illegal. Whatever. J Loo trained day and
Speaker 1: night for this film for two and a half months.
Speaker 1: She trained with her choreographer. Didn't she have like portable
Speaker 1: polls wherever she flew out too? She sure did, and
Speaker 1: the dedication showed she'd go home covered in bruises most nights.
Speaker 1: When speaking about the training for the role, she laid
Speaker 1: down the truth. I've danced all my life, and I
Speaker 1: work out every single day, and I can say without
Speaker 1: hesitation that learning the bull dance was one of the
Speaker 1: most challenging things I've ever done. And that's why you
Speaker 1: never go to the club without cash. Don't be a
Speaker 1: cheap ast loser. These are star athletes here. That's right.
Speaker 1: It should be an Olympic sport, Joseph serious, And this
Speaker 1: is exactly why Jlo was going to be sure this
Speaker 1: movie got seen. It's a movie that fights back against degradation,
Speaker 1: women that play a rigged game by their own rules.
Speaker 1: You know what's insane to me? What Jlo was busy
Speaker 1: promoting this film while also prepping to perform at the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl halftime with Shakida. If I book too many
Speaker 1: appointments for one day, I'm literally taking a nap to
Speaker 1: process the stress. And this is why you are not
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez. They premiered the film at the Toronto International
Speaker 1: Film Festival and presented the film to critics and did
Speaker 1: the Oscars Luncheon. All of it. She got nominated for
Speaker 1: a Golden Globe and an Independent Spirit Award. The only
Speaker 1: thing missing was that Oscar, and yet she didn't get nominated.
Speaker 1: What gives It was kind of controversial at the time.
Speaker 1: I remember covering this on E News and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying anything, but it is a film directed by a
Speaker 1: woman about women taking advantage of rich men's soul. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: it seems like a touchy subject. Whatever it was, I
Speaker 1: think everyone agrees that j Loo had been snubbed. The
Speaker 1: critics loved it, Hey, it made money, yeah, and people
Speaker 1: really thought she was going to at least get nominated
Speaker 1: for an Oscar for this. But she for sure thought
Speaker 1: she was going to get it, and so did the
Speaker 1: rest of her team. After all that, what a disappointing
Speaker 1: end to the story, right, and in her documentary halftime,
Speaker 1: her Awards season campaign almost got as much screen time
Speaker 1: as the Super Bowl prep and show honestly, who cares.
Speaker 1: The fans didn't care. All she does is win, win, win,
Speaker 1: no matter what, and it did put that ass back
Speaker 1: on the map. That's a win, right, absolutely the biggest
Speaker 1: win of all. And it was a triumphant return to
Speaker 1: dramatic acting. That girl can really do it all. Jennifer
Speaker 1: from idolizing female figures like Rita Modano and Selena Kinthania
Speaker 1: to becoming an inspiration for other young latinos. Talk about
Speaker 1: full circle. She had married me with Malomma and she's
Speaker 1: going back to her rom com days with Shotgun Wedding. Listen.
Speaker 1: There's really no other way to say this. She's an icon.
Speaker 1: But before we call it a day, we couldn't help
Speaker 1: but rank her top three films according to industry experts
Speaker 1: aka us Okay, Joseph, go just spit them out. The
Speaker 1: wedding planner, the sell enough. You and I are so different? Okay,
Speaker 1: here it goes mine, ready, three in order backwards, three
Speaker 1: two one, Monster in Law Selena. Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: forgot about that one, and excuse me, it's my turn.
Speaker 1: Monster in Law Selena, out of sight. That's it. There's
Speaker 1: no room for debate. Oh y'all can debate us on Twitter.
Speaker 1: So we've covered her career, but before we turn the
Speaker 1: page on j Lo, did he ben mark a Rod?
Speaker 1: Can we skip a Rod? Agreed? Okay, Ben Again, we
Speaker 1: are dishing on Jlo's love life on the next Becoming
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