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 Jennifer Lopez
Spotlight By: Rocco Passafuime
*Click here for another interview with Jennifer Lopez!* After achieving an incredible breakthrough as an actress in the biopic Selena on the life of the late tejano performer who shares the film’s namesake, Jennifer Lopez almost overnight became a major superstar. Starring in a string of mostly critically-panned, but commercially successful films like The Wedding Planner and Maid In Manhattan, while also launching a successful career as a pop star directly around the onset of a short-lived “Latin Music Wave” in American pop, Lopez’s increased prominence made her one of the most high-profile Latina celebrities in Hollywood. Despite a few personal and professional setbacks in recent years, including a hugely-publicized courtship and breakup with actor Ben Affleck, Lopez has used the opportunity to mark a considerably new chapter in her illustrious career and use her acquired clout to pick film projects that are nearer and dearer to her heart. Her latest role is as Puchi, the wife of Latin salsa legend Hector Lavoe in the biopic El Cantante, which focuses on the life of the singer. Starring alongside Jennifer in the film is real-life husband, salsa megastar and occasional actor Marc Anthony, who plays the King of Salsa himself. It’s not the first time a real-life love interest of Lopez’s had starred in a film with her as former fiancée Affleck was on hand with her in one of the biggest critical and commercial film flops in recent years, the mobster comedy Gigli. However, when Jennifer addressed this inevitable question, she claims her and Anthony’s involvement together in El Cantante was purely coincidental. “I got the script 5 1/2 years ago and we were not together at that point at that time,” Lopez insists, “But I knew he was the guy to play the role, so I called him a month later and said, ‘Do you want to do the role and attach yourself to this?’ At that time, I didn’t even know I was going to play Puchi, to tell you the truth. But I did know that I wanted it to be the first thing that I produced. So I called him as the producer of the film and said, ‘Do you want to do this?’ and he’s like, ‘Yeah, of course. I love this. This guy’s like my idol.’ I’m like, ‘OK.’” “We met working,” she adds, “That’s what I think everybody forgets. The first time Marc and I met, we were doing a song together, and it worked. It was on my first album and we just have that naturally, luckily. And doing this movie, I always planned to do this film together, even when we weren’t together.” Though Jennifer claims she did not have a great deal of knowledge about Lavoe, she said she found it deeply exciting learning how the singer was tied in with many of Latin pop’s most prominent and legendary performers. “Yeah, I mean I didn’t know a lot of ... |
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