A glance inside J. Lo’s world. Jennifer Lopez introduced cameras alongside as she ready to carry out on the Tremendous Bowl halftime present, however viewers discovered extra than simply how she and Shakira deliberate their units.
“It doesn’t matter what I achieved, their urge for food to cowl my private life overshadowed every little thing that was occurring in my profession. I simply had a really low shallowness,” the 52-year-old performer admitted in Halftime, which began streaming on Netflix Tuesday, June 14. “I actually believed plenty of what they mentioned, which is I wasn’t any good. I wasn’t a very good singer, I wasn’t a very good actress, I wasn’t a very good dancer. I wasn’t good at something.”
Whereas trying again at her decades-long profession, Lopez is candid in regards to the difficulties of being taken critically as a Latina girl in Hollywood. In consequence, the Grammy nominee and her staff had been lower than thrilled when the NFL opted to call Shakira because the co-headliner for the 2020 Tremendous Bowl.
“Sometimes, you may have one headliner at a Tremendous Bowl. That headliner constructs a present, and, ought to they select to produce other friends, that’s their selection,” Lopez’s longtime supervisor, Benny Medina, mentioned. “It was an insult to say you wanted two Latinas to do the job that one artist traditionally has completed.”
Lopez doesn’t slam Shakira — however she additionally doesn’t mince phrases on the subject of the choice to separate the time on stage.
“We’ve six f—king minutes. We’ve 30 seconds of a music, and if we take a minute, that’s it, we’ve received 5 left. However there’s received to make sure songs that we sing, although. We’ve to have our singing moments. It’s not going to be a dance f—king revue,” the “Let’s Get Loud” singer declared. “We’ve to sing our message. … That is the worst concept on this planet to have two individuals do the Tremendous Bowl. It was the worst concept on this planet.”
Whereas Lopez was engaged to Alex Rodriguez through the manufacturing of Halftime, the athlete doesn’t seem. Followers do, nonetheless, briefly hear from Ben Affleck (extra on that cameo beneath) and see how shut Lopez is along with her 14-year-old twins, Max and Emme, whom she shares with ex-husband Marc Anthony.
“Like, even now, I’m not gonna get into what my relationships had been like. However in the way it pertains to me and the journey that I’ve been on, I needed to be taught that the important thing was not a lot about different individuals however about your self,” Lopez defined. “It’s about being your personal keeper and never searching for any individual to offer you a house however making your personal dwelling.”
Halftime is streaming now. Scroll by way of for the most important takeaways:
