J. Lo Had a Romantic Reason for Featuring 'The Way We Were' in Her New Film | HFFUW70 | 2024-02-18 23:08:01
Jennifer Lopez was sending a romantic message to husband Ben Affleck when she featured The Approach We Have been in her new movie, This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.
"That's one in every of mine and Ben's favorite films," Lopez, 54, advised Entertainment Weekly in an interview revealed on Friday, February 16. "We watched it 20 years ago. I truly showed it to him once we have been collectively final time."
In the narrative-driven musical, Lopez watches the 1973 tearjerker starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, repeating the strains back to herself as she cries over a past heartbreak. Lopez advised EW that incorporating the emotional second was "particular" to her — plus she has lots of love for the movie's lead actress.
"I'm a huge Barbra Streisand fan," she stated. "My mom really imparted [this movie] to me. That was her favourite romantic film rising up. So it has plenty of significance for me."
This Is Me … Now: A Love Story, which premiered on Prime Video Friday, is a fictionalized portrayal of Lopez's life over the past 20 years in tandem together with her new album of the same identify. The story follows Lopez as she overcomes a collection of dangerous relationships and blossoms into a spot of self-love before being reunited with The One, inspired by her life after her 2002 cut up from Affleck, earlier than the pair rekindled their romance almost 20 years later.
The Approach We Have been isn't the one basic musical that gets a shoutout in This Is Me … Now. Lopez also pays homage to Singin' in the Rain through the ultimate moments of the movie with a solo dance quantity during a stormy night time in New York City.
"I really like musicals. I all the time have," she advised the outlet. "It's humorous, I needed to do one thing within the rain. I didn't need to make it Singin' within the Rain I needed to bop with the hummingbird in the rain, and it got here out like, 'Oh, it's like Singin' In the Rain. I'm singing and dancing within the rain."
Lopez famous that "every thing" she's executed in her life was woven into the movie. "Whether or not it's romantic comedies and dramas, rising up on musical theater and within the MTV era and the golden age of music videos and putting stuff out at that time — all of it's in here," she defined. "Every little thing about me. I've never executed a challenge the place I obtained to use all the things about myself personally and professionally in one venture."
While This Is Me … Now: A Love Story recollects Lopez's time away from Affleck, the album serves as a follow-up to her 2002 report, This Is Me … Then, which was inspired by the pair's relationship and subsequent 2002 breakup.
After their cut up, Lopez went on to marry Marc Anthony, and the exes share twins Max and Emme. She later moved on with Alex Rodriguez, but the twosome referred to as it quits in March 2021 after 4 years collectively. Affleck, for his half, welcomed youngsters Violet, Seraphina and Samuel with ex-wife Jennifer Garner earlier than their 2018 divorce.
Jennifer Lopez Says She Never 'Planned' on Reconnecting With Ben Affleck
Lopez and Affleck rekindled their romance in July 2021 and tied the knot one yr later. During a February appearance on Australia's "Kyle and Jackie O Radio Show," Lopez stated that she needed to "determine herself out" after her cut up from Affleck and by no means anticipated they might come again collectively.
"I fell in love with the love of my life [earlier in life] and for whatever causes, we would have liked to develop and do different issues," she stated. "We each went off and had youngsters with different individuals and different relationships, but you already know in my thoughts I type of had it like, 'Oh, that was type of the one.'"
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