Jennifer Lopez Says It’s Time We Take Her Seriously

There are times when you put in your best and do everything by the book, you even go extra miles to outdo yourself yet, that your best won’t be good enough for everyone. The star of “Marry Me” Jennifer Lopez is someone that feels that way, but, instead of sitting down to brood, Lopez is standing up to take charge, Lopez is saying enough is enough, I demand to be taken seriously from this day henceforth.

Jennifer Lopez is a reality show judge, music video face-giver, and movie star. She was the first Latina paid $1 million for a movie role with 1997’s Selena and then broke records when her album and movie — J.Lo and The Wedding Planner — shot to No. 1 on the charts the same week of 2001. She’s done American Idol, Vegas residencies, dancing competitions, and scripted network TV shows.

Jennifer Lopez — While Talking About Doing Something Different

While speaking with an NFL producer in her new Netflix documentary “Halftime,” Jennifer Lopez explained that she wants something different from the normal booty shakes and belly dances we’re used to seeing, this time around, she wants it to be real, and from the tone she’s speaking with, Lopez sure means business this time.

“I want something real. I want something that’s gonna make a statement,” Jennifer Lopez said while responding to executives trying to cut out scenes of children in cages from her Super Bowl show, and she’s fed up. “I’m trying to give you something with substance; not just us out there shaking our fucking asses and fucking belly dancing,” she remarked.

Despite all the accolades Lopez gathered through the years, she doesn’t feel like she has gotten to the peak of where her efforts are really appreciated, but now she wants to be taken seriously. She’s talked about being seen as a lightweight since her Oscar snub for her role in the 2019 movie Hustlers and about how her crowd-pleasing work hasn’t always gotten critical acclaim by way of Grammys or Academy Awards. “It’s just 20, 25 years of people going, ‘Well, she’s not that great. She’s pretty and she makes cute music, but it’s not really this and that,’” she told Rolling Stone last year. “And I always acted like, ‘Yeah, I’m good. I’m fine. I’m OK.’ But it hurts to not be included. … There is an inner circle, like, ‘We are the great artists.’ And then there’s the pop artists.”

Jennifer Lopez — Lopez Is Disappointed By The Oscar Snub In 2020.

It becomes evident in the documentary that Jennifer was hoping for (and what’s more, expecting) a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2020 Oscars for her Hustlers performance, NBC reported. When that wasn’t the case, her disappointment is heartbreaking.

“The truth is, I really started to think I was gonna get nominated,” she admits. “I got my hopes up because so many people were telling me I would be. And then it didn’t happen.

But, as she always does, Jennifer picked herself up and focused on what was most important to her. “I do this to … tell stories and to effect change and connect with people and make them feel things because I wanna feel something,” she says, per NBC.

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