When the financing tipped over, Jennifer Lopez was prepared to back herself.
The On the Floor vocalist was all systems go to shoot the motion picture accompanying her approaching album This Is Me … Now: A Love Story when her backers pulled the carpet out from under her.
Rather of attempting to rustle up funds from another source at the l lth hour, or downsizing the production from a full-length function to an easier video, JLo chose she would just spend for the whole thing out of her own pocket.
“Everybody believed I was insane when I stated I would do it,” Jennifer confessed to The Hollywood Reporter.
“We did have funding, and after that fell out. They took out at the last minute, and after that it was that minute where you go, ‘OK, do we simply make a video or do we proceed and do this thing?'”
She described the movie covers her on-again, off-again– and lastly on-again– romance with partner Ben Affleck. Ben was associated with the production, nevertheless he and Jennifer have actually stayed tight-lipped on precisely what his function involved.
“I didn’t wish to inform the story of Ben and I due to the fact that individuals understand that story,” Jennifer stated.
“I wished to do something various. We embarked upon how to do that in a visual method with singing, dancing and amusing in a life-like method.”
The movie will include looks by a genuine cavalcade of A-listers, consisting of Jane Fonda, Trevor Noah, Fat Joe, Post Malone, Keke Palmer, Sofia Vergara, Jay Shetty, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Kim Petras.
This Is Me … Now: A Love Story can be viewed on Amazon Prime from February 16.