Jennifer Lopez is reliving his past and giving fans a look inside his life through a documentary titled Halftime, which will air on Netflix.
While the documentary surrounds her subsequent rise to fame, the trailer for the feature film surrounds her questioning her career in Hollywood and being “taken seriously,” especially after being snubbed for earning an award nomination. Oscar for his role in hustlers and his superbowl half-time performance in 2020.
The sadness of Jennifer Lopez
In the video, J.Lo gets excited after reading an article that predicts she will be nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a pole dancer in the film.
But the hitmaker of ‘Jenny From the Block’ she breaks down crying after realizing she missed it. The nominees in that category for that year were Laura Dern in Marriage Story (winner); Katy Bates in Richard Jewell; Scarlett Johansson in JojoRabbit ; Florence Pugh in little women ; Y margot robbie in Bombshell .
“It was difficult”, she says in the clip. “I just had very low self-esteem.”.
Lopez then says: “I had to really find out who I was and believe in that and not believe in anything else.”
Selena’s star was nominated for a Golden Globe this year.
The trailer also includes several instances of the media and tabloids discussing her career in a negative light: one moment shows Jimmy Kimmel saying that López cannot sing, while another shows the entertainment reporter Billy Bush asking about her butt.
“Didn’t you just ask me that”Lopez responds to Bush.
Ben Affleck talks to her about struggling to be ‘taken seriously’
He can also be seen in the video as her renewed boyfriend, Ben Affleckspeaks in the trailer in an interview where he reflects on Lopez’s moments in the spotlight.
“I asked him, does this not bother you?” she shared the Oscar winner, before adding that J.Lo replied, “‘I expected this.'”
Meanwhile, in preparation for her Super Bowl halftime show with Shakira, the star is heard rehearsing saying that she wanted to make a statement and provide something with more “substance” and not just be “shaking our fucking asses in the stage”.
“I’m not doing this for a prize,” Lopez adds. “I do this to connect with people and make them feel things because I want to feel something.”
Lopez is currently engaged to Affleck after restarting their romance in April 2021. Affleck took a knee last month.
“Did you ever imagine that your biggest dream could come true?” Lopez revealed in an exclusive email newsletter for fans.
“It took me totally by surprise and I just looked into his eyes smiling and crying at the same time, trying to wrap my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening again, I was literally speechless,” she wrote. .
“And he said, ‘Is that a yes?’ I said ‘YES, of course, that’s a YES'”