The two have such incredible chemistry onscreen, it’s hard to believe that they weren’t already good friends before filming began. It is wildly implausible, yes, but it’s also very funny and charming, and full of new songs from both Lopez and Maluma (expect an album, and if we are still in quarantine by the time it comes out, expect to deeply, deeply miss being at a club when you listen to it). Lopez and Maluma star as Kat and Bastian, two larger-than-life pop stars who are about to get married during a world-televised joint concert, when Kat finds out Bastian is cheating on her, and decides to marry a random guy in the audience instead (Owen Wilson). She has just released two songs with the 27-year-old Colombian singer Maluma, “Pa’ Ti” and “Lonely,” as an amuse-bouche to get fans excited for their major upcoming project: a romantic comedy called Marry Me, which she also coproduced and which is scheduled to be released in May. It’s the kind of face that brings to mind the word effortless.Īppearances aside, Lopez’s real life is anything but effortless. Subtle browns and bronzes on her eyes and cheeks, a glossy pink lipstick. (Want a glamorous way to enjoy your drink like Jennifer Lopez?) Her face is, of course, flawless. Throughout our conversation, she takes sips of water from a pink bedazzled tumbler with a straw, a signature accessory that was once available for sale in a similar style at the official JLo store, and has since yielded copycat versions on Etsy. Pink crewneck sweater and thick gold hoops, with her hair pulled back in a high bun, she is sitting inside a conference room in a nondescript office in Los Angeles, the setting sun reflecting in the window behind her, at one point setting behind her right ear and giving her an otherworldly glow. This is Spanish music becoming American music, becoming global music,” Lopez tells me over Zoom. “I was part of that, and that was Latin artists coming over and singing in English, but now this is such a different thing. Now we are in the midst of another Latin explosion, and Lopez is still here, going head to head and toe to toe with the new wave of brilliant Latin performers like Bad Bunny and Maluma. She looks even better now than when she rocked that famous Versace jungle-print dress, which led to the invention of Google Images, for God’s sake-defying, in the process, all the rules of Hollywood, of celebrity, and possibly of the concept of time itself. This is important to note right away, because you are likely looking at the photographs that accompany this profile and thinking to yourself, Wait, how old is JLo again? Because it’s not that Lopez “looks good for her age,” it’s that she somehow looks even better than she did when she was in her twenties and thirties, when she originally hit the scene and became part of the first wave of pop music’s Latin explosion.
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