Jennifer Lopez Rejected Film Function That Landed Another Starlet an Oscar Nom: “It Haunts Me”

Jennifer Lopez took a seat with Howard Stern for his SiriusXM program for an extensive discussion that covered her well-known exes, the swirl surrounding Bad Bunny’s upcoming Super Bowl Halftime Program and her brand-new motion picture, Kiss of the Spider Lady.

It was a dishy interview that continued to perform when Stern asked the super star entertainer if she ever refused a motion picture function just to regret it later on. “Adrian Lyne provided me Unfaithful,” Lopez verified, pointing out the filmmaker’s 2002 steamy thriller that followed the unraveling of a rural couple’s marital relationship when the spouse enjoys an adulterous fling. Richard Gere and Diane Lane toplined as the couple, with Olivier Martinez playing her enthusiast. Michelle Monaghan likewise starred in the Fox 2000 Pictures and New Regency Productions task, which made $119 million around the world.

When Stern asked Lopez why she turned it down, she chalked it approximately the writing. “The script wasn’t great,” she stated of the movie, penned by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr. and based upon Claude Chabrol’s 1969 initial movie La Femme Infidéle. However regardless of the script, she included, Lyne “made it excellent.”

Adding fuel to the fire, Lane snagged a finest starlet Oscar election for her operate in the movie in a classification that likewise consisted of Nicole Kidman ( The Hours), Julianne Moore ( Far From Paradise), Salma Hayek ( Frida) and Renee Zellweger ( Chicago).

” Is that difficult to deal with?” Stern inquired about Lane’s Oscar election, to which she reacted, “It’s amusing. It haunts me. It haunts me a bit. It resembles the one that I refused that it was similar to, ‘Why did you reject dealing with Adrian Lyne? What were you believing?’ I didn’t even understand what the hell was going on in my mind at the time. Who understands what was happening with me at the time.”.

At the time, Lopez was handling a red hot music and acting profession that included current releases like 2001’s The Wedding Event Coordinator with Matthew McConaughey and Angel Eyes with Jim Caviezel. Around the time Unfaithful was launched, she had such movies as Enough, Housemaid in Manhattan and Gigli, the latter of which showed to be among the most significant ticket office dissatisfactions in her profession.

However she might have a possibility to get some shine from the Academy next year as she’s currently creating Oscar buzz for her supporting turn in Expense Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Lady. See Lopez on Stern listed below.