Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez ROBYN BECK/AFP through Getty Pictures
Jennifer Lopez was sending a romantic message to husband Ben Affleck when she featured The Means We Had been in her new movie, This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.
“That’s certainly one of mine and Ben’s favourite motion pictures,” Lopez, 54, informed Leisure Weekly in an interview printed on Friday, February 16. “We watched it 20 years in the past. I truly confirmed it to him once we had been collectively final time.”
Within the narrative-driven musical, Lopez watches the 1973 tearjerker starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, repeating the strains again to herself as she cries over a previous heartbreak. Lopez informed EW that incorporating the emotional second was “particular” to her — plus she has plenty of love for the film’s lead actress.
“I’m an enormous Barbra Streisand fan,” she mentioned. “My mom actually imparted [this movie] to me. That was her favourite romantic film rising up. So it has plenty of significance for me.”
This Is Me … Now: A Love Story, which premiered on Prime Video Friday, is a fictionalized portrayal of Lopez’s life over the previous 20 years in tandem along with her new album of the identical identify. The story follows Lopez as she overcomes a sequence of dangerous relationships and blossoms into a spot of self-love earlier than being reunited with The One, impressed by her life after her 2002 break up from Affleck, earlier than the pair rekindled their romance practically twenty years later.
The Means We Had been isn’t the one basic musical that will get a shoutout in This Is Me … Now. Lopez additionally pays homage to Singin’ within the Rain through the ultimate moments of the movie with a solo dance quantity throughout a stormy night time in New York Metropolis.
“I like musicals. I all the time have,” she informed the outlet. “It’s humorous, I needed to do one thing within the rain. I didn’t need to make it Singin’ within the Rain I needed to bounce with the hummingbird within the rain, and it got here out like, ‘Oh, it’s like Singin’ Within the Rain. I’m singing and dancing within the rain.”
‘The Means We Had been’ Sundown Boulevard/Corbis through Getty Pictures
Lopez famous that “every thing” she’s performed in her life was woven into the movie. “Whether or not it’s romantic comedies and dramas, rising up on musical theater and within the MTV technology and the golden age of music movies and placing stuff out at the moment — all of it’s in right here,” she defined. “All the pieces about me. I’ve by no means performed a undertaking the place I bought to make use of every thing about myself personally and professionally in a single undertaking.”
Whereas This Is Me … Now: A Love Story remembers Lopez’s time away from Affleck, the album serves as a follow-up to her 2002 document, This Is Me … Then, which was impressed by the pair’s relationship and subsequent 2002 breakup.
After their break up, Lopez went on to marry Marc Anthony, and the exes share twins Max and Emme. She later moved on with Alex Rodriguez, however the twosome referred to as it quits in March 2021 after 4 years collectively. Affleck, for his half, welcomed children Violet, Seraphina and Samuel with ex-wife Jennifer Garner earlier than their 2018 divorce.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s relationship impressed her 2002 hit “Pricey Ben,” and their romance supplied much more inspiration when it was rekindled twenty years later. The couple had been first linked within the early 2000s, with Lopez confirming their engagement to Diane Sawyer in November 2002. The twosome finally referred to as off their wedding ceremony in early […]
Lopez and Affleck rekindled their romance in July 2021 and tied the knot one 12 months later. Throughout a February look on Australia’s “Kyle and Jackie O Radio Present,” Lopez mentioned that she wanted to “determine herself out” after her break up from Affleck and by no means anticipated they might come again collectively.
“I fell in love with the love of my life [earlier in life] and for no matter causes, we would have liked to develop and do different issues,” she mentioned. “We each went off and had youngsters with different folks and different relationships, however in my thoughts I sort of had it like, ‘Oh, that was sort of the one.’”
