Jennifer Lopez is braving the Sundance snow to tease her buzzy new project — which, as she noted, is her very first movie musical. At the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Sunday, Jan. 26, the actress-singer, 55, discussed her upcoming project Kiss of the Spider Woman alongside director Bill Condon and costar Tonatiuh as part of the Los Angeles Times Talks series, presented by Chase Sapphire Reserve.
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00:00Any time would have been the right time to step into my movie musical role. I love musicals since I was little
00:08It's always been my dream I thought I was gonna do Broadway when I was little and I feel like you know
00:13This is this is when the opportunity came, you know, I've auditioned for some before and this was it. This was
00:20The thing that when I read it, I thought to myself. Oh this role was
00:25Made for me like this is the role. I was bored. This is the one and I had to wait, but it was worth it
00:32You know, and so I'm very excited for people to see that. I love
00:37Even more than that that it's within this movie that is so relevant right now
00:43You know, even a book that was written 50 years ago
00:46Has themes that are also still with grappling with today and in a different way that people can hear it and accept it more
00:53I'm excited. I'm really really excited and I really think it's something that people will embrace