Jennifer Lopez Says ‘I Only Want To Do Musicals’ Going Forward After Shooting ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’

Jennifer Lopez has tally the committee connected the large screen, from romcoms to enactment flicks, sci-fi, biopics, horror, animation, play and past year’s confessional autobiographical documentary two-fer This Is Me… Now: A Love Story and The Greatest Love Story Never Told. But present that she has realized her career-long imagination of toplining a movie philharmonic with Kiss of the Spider Woman, the mutli-hyphenate superstar says she wants to constrictive her absorption to 1 genre.

“I mean I lone privation to bash musicals to beryllium rather honest,” Lopez told Andy Cohen connected Wednesday night’s (Oct. 15) Watch What Happens Live aft the big suggested she re-reboot a planned TV revival of Bye-Bye Birdie that NBC had planned to aerial arsenic a unrecorded special earlier bailing connected the task owed to scheduling issues and past the COVID-19 pandemic. Or, helium floated, possibly she could enactment up a Guys and Dolls remake present that she’s bedewed her musicals beak.

“All of those things! All of the things!” Lopez said enthusiastically, assuring Cohen that she has not abandoned his favourite JLo lane: romcoms. “I person 1 coming for you. We person a bully 1 coming up. It’s not the emblematic JLo romcom that you are utilized to, similar the sweet, wholesomeness,” she warned. “It’s a small raunchy. Think much Knocked Up, [There’s] Something About Mary.”

Earlier this week, Lopez told Howard Stern connected his SiriusXM amusement that it had been her lifelong imagination to prima successful a musical, dating backmost to her breakout relation successful the 1997 Selena biopic. But, she noted, the stars had not aligned until she signed connected to prima successful the the remake of the 1992 signifier philharmonic based connected Manuel Puig’s 1976 acclaimed novel, which had antecedently been adapted into the Oscar-winning 1985 play starring William Hurt and Raul Julia.

“I deliberation it’s much timely present than adjacent it was then,” Lopez said of the communicative of 2 cellmates successful an Argentine situation — a governmental captive (Valentin Paz) and a cheery model dresser (Luis Molina) imprisoned for nationalist indecency — who, though seemingly wholly opposite, autumn successful emotion arsenic Molina lovingly reco...