Jennifer Lopez Says ‘I Only Want To Do Musicals’ Going Forward After Shooting ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’
Jennifer Lopez has run the board on the big screen, from romcoms to action flicks, sci-fi, biopics, horror, animation, drama and last year’s confessional autobiographical documentary two-fer This Is Me… Now: A Love Story and The Greatest Love Story Never Told. But now that she has realized her career-long dream of toplining a movie musical with Kiss of the Spider Woman, the mutli-hyphenate superstar says she wants to narrow her focus to one genre.
“I mean I only want to do musicals to be quite honest,” Lopez told Andy Cohen on Wednesday night’s (Oct. 15) Watch What Happens Live after the host suggested she re-reboot a planned TV revival of Bye-Bye Birdie that NBC had planned to air as a live special before bailing on the project due to scheduling issues and then the COVID-19 pandemic. Or, he floated, maybe she could line up a Guys and Dolls remake now that she’s wet her musicals beak.
“All of those things! All of the things!” Lopez said enthusiastically, assuring Cohen that she has not abandoned his favorite JLo lane: romcoms. “I have one coming for you. We have a good one coming up. It’s not the typical JLo romcom that you are used to, like the sweet, wholesomeness,” she warned. “It’s a little raunchy. Think more Knocked Up, [There’s] Something About Mary.”
Earlier this week, Lopez told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show that it had been her lifelong dream to star in a musical, dating back to her breakout role in the 1997 Selena biopic. But, she noted, the stars had not aligned until she signed on to star in the the remake of the 1992 stage musical based on Manuel Puig’s 1976 acclaimed novel, which had previously been adapted into the Oscar-winning 1985 drama starring William Hurt and Raul Julia.
“I think it’s more timely now than even it was then,” Lopez said of the story of two cellmates in an Argentine prison — a political prisoner (Valentin Paz) and a gay window dresser (Luis Molina) imprisoned for public indecency — who, though seemingly completely opposite, fall in love as Molina lovingly recounts the plot of his favorite Hollywood musical, The Kiss of the Spider Woman.
In addition to her musical dreams, Lopez also answered a caller’s question about who she’d like to act with again by calling out her co-star in the 2005 romcom Monster-in-Law. “I would love to work with Jane Fonda again,” Lopez said.
Watch Lopez on WWHL below.
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