When Jennifer Lopez needed to share the Tremendous Bowl halftime stage co-headlining with Shakira in 2020, some — myself included — puzzled why Jenny wanted anyone else on her block.
Though the 2 Latina divas performed good and hugged it out on the Onerous Rock Stadium in Miami, it seems Lopez wasn’t feelin’ so good about having to squeeze in a single typical headliner’s present in half the time.
The 52-year previous Bronx icon vents her frustration about it throughout “Halftime,” the J.Lo documentary that opened the Tribeca Movie Competition Wednesday evening on the United Palace Theater earlier than it premieres on Netflix June 14.
“This was the worst thought on this planet,” says a pissed-off Lopez, who's seen combating with the NFL for extra time to do her set justice.
Whereas Lopez doesn’t come proper out and say why she needed to break up her stage time with Shakira, her longtime supervisor, Benny Medina, doesn’t mince phrases concerning the disrespect.
“It was an insult to suppose that you just wanted two Latinas to do the job that one artist traditionally has achieved,” he says.
And whereas Lopez is seen on Zoom with Shakira making an attempt to make the most effective of a not-so-super state of affairs — “We will deliver everyone collectively on this second,” she says — the friction didn’t precisely make for the friendliest of rehearsals between the 2.
They’re cordial and professional at finest, however let’s simply say Shakira shouldn’t expect an invite to Bennifer 2.0’s wedding ceremony.
However who can blame La Lopez? This was her second, and he or she deserved to personal it herself.
“That is one thing I've been working for and hoping for for years,” she says.
“Halftime” additionally reveals that Lopez fought with the NFL over utilizing youngsters in cages to ship a political message about former President Donald Trump placing migrant youngsters into detention camps.
“The NFL had an actual concern about making a press release about immigration,” says Medina.
However after the NFL requested Lopez to take away the cages the day earlier than the Tremendous Bowl, she didn’t again down. “We’re not altering the present,” she advised them.
About half of “Halftime” is concerning the Tremendous Bowl, taking you behind the scenes of rehearsals.
The Tremendous Bowl can be positioned as the large, final win for Lopez after she misplaced out on an Oscar nomination for “Hustlers.” And the star is open about her disappointment for her and her group after getting the hype—and her hopes—up within the awards-season marketing campaign path.
However the documentary glosses over different areas of Lopez’s profession and private life. There’s hardly something about Lopez’s relationships together with her well-known flames right here — though fiancé Ben Affleck briefly seems to weigh in on his woman having to take care of disrespect within the enterprise as a Latina.
And Lopez herself is aware of about that every one too properly. Originally of the documentary, she says, “My entire life I've battled and battled to be heard, to be seen, to be taken significantly.”
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