“I should have pulled back”: Jennifer Lopez Reveals Major Regret From Her Early Hollywood Career
Singer-actress-businesswoman, Jennifer Lopez is one of the most successful and popular artists in the world who is often regarded as Latin Pop Culture Icon and someone who has a very significant amount of influence on entertainers in the world.
Jennifer Lopez recently announced a sequel to her 2002 This Is Me.., Then album titled; This Is Me…Now which is scheduled to be released in 2024. The upcoming album marks the singer’s first studio album in ten years since her release of A.K.A., in 2014. The artist opened up about the challenges she has faced to survive in the industry over the years in a recent cover story.
Jennifer Lopez recalls having to fight for different roles
Jennifer Lopez who is known as someone who excels at everything she does in a recent cover story for Elle that as a Latina woman, she had to fight for different roles in the industry and not typecast herself for playing a housekeeper or a maid. She said,
“I really came in blind. I knew that I had a love of singing, dancing, performing, and acting that was my big dream. When I entered into it, I didn’t know any of the logistics of Hollywood or how it worked or what I should be looking for. I learned everything as I went along.”
Lopez continued to share,
“I didn’t get called in for everything someone who wasn’t Latina would get called in for. I got called in for very specific things. As I started getting more leads here and there, I should have pulled back. I took that mindset with me instead of going, ‘I should only work with certain kinds of directors that I really want to work with. I should choose this material in a different way’.”
The singer-actress noted that if she could start over, she thinks she would have done that knowing that the director is at the helm of the project when one’s acting, and just like in singing, the producer’s artists work with are very important.
Jennifer Lopez talks about the current state of women in the entertainment industry
In her conversation with Elle, the singer-actress mentioned that there are still so many obstacles women have to go through in the entertainment industry adding that it’s not everything they would want it to be but at least they can see a diverse cast in a movie where the leads are of different race and genders.
Jennifer Lopez who is currently married to actor-writer-director Ben Affleck mentioned that the minor changes that people now see are encouraging;
“I think that’s encouraging, that we fought for that. I like to think that having been able to break into certain things, that I didn’t settle, knowing in my heart that I was just another girl and I could tell a story of a woman. One of the things I’ve learned too is that we have to take ownership. We can’t sit around and wait for people to hand us roles.”
Lopez acknowledged the fact that a lot of actresses now produce their movies and develop their material, which is very significant as well. JLo mentioned that she sees herself working as long as she wants to adding that if she wants an opportunity for herself, she will create it because she has never let anyone put her in a box because of where she was born. She said those boundaries do not exist for her.
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