Jennifer Lopez put the objectives of landing the main role in the 1996 cinematographic adaptation of the musical “Evita”.
“I went to audition for” Evita “for [director] Alan Parker, “said Lopez on Wednesday evening during a post-procedure question session of his new movie comedy” Kiss of the Spider Woman “. “I had been practicing for weeks and I sing my heart and he said,” You are incredible. You know Madonna has the game, right? “”
Lopez was laughing: “I said:” Ok, goodbye. Delighted to meet you. “”
Now Lopez finally gets his musical moment of film in the big screen adaptation of Bill Condon of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” opposite Tonatiuh and Diego Luna.
Lopez embodies Ingrid Luna, a movie star whose most famous role is that of a spider woman, capable of killing her lovers with a kiss. In 1981, during Dirty War of Argentina, the window convenient of the Gay department store Luis Molina (Tonatiuh), which served a prison sentence, imagined his films to escape the horrors of her current. He and political activist Valentin Arregui (Luna) become improbable friends when they are forced to share a cell together.
Lopez said she dreamed of playing in a musical since she was a child after watching “West Side Story” on television in “Little Home in the Bronx” of her family. She previously recalled also auditioned for musical films “Chicago” and “Nine”. In 2016, it was announced in a live production of NBC live from “Bye Bye Birdie”, but the project was finally put back.
Lopez remembers Condon, who also adapted the film script, telling him that the musical numbers drawn up in “Kiss of the Spider Woman” would be filmed in a single catch. “I said to myself:” We will make a blanket? ” “She said. “He was like,” no, no cover “. I said to myself: “Fuck me! I better do it.” As halfway through the catch, it happens perfectly and you trip on your dress, so it’s like, maybe we start.
She continued: “But we put our hearts and souls there and we repeated as a madman for the time we had and it was a beautiful thing and again, I saw my childhood dreams.”
Tonatiuh introduced the projection before going to the airport to jump on an airplane to New York for another work commitment.
Lopez received a standing ovation when she went on stage for questions and answers.
The music “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is by John Kander and Fred Ebb and is based on the novel by Manuel Puig and the Book of the Musical of Terrence McNally. It was created during Sundance in January.
While promoting his action thriller “continues” in December, Tonatiuh told me about working with Lopez. “She is breathtaking and transforming in so many different ways. I remember that there was a time when we repeated for the first time, and it was just a table reading. She had the first line in one of the songs and she begins to manage,” he said. “I had my iPad and my glasses thinking it would be a right table reading. I said to myself: “Oh, if we are going full, Tiend. And I just remember Bill looked at that and see his mind going to work. »»
On Wednesday Q&R, Condon said that he and the casting service had examined around 800 people before choosing Tonatiuh.
After the screening, Lopez attended a reception at Château Marmont.
“Kiss of the Spider Woman”, Lionsgate, attractions by the road and LD entertainment, will be in theaters on October 10.
