Jennifer Lopez recently joined Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show for a candid and wide-ranging interview that touched on her famous exes, the buzz around Bad Bunny’s upcoming Super Bowl Halftime Show, and her latest film, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
During the interview, Stern asked Lopez if there was ever a
role she passed on that she later regretted. Lopez admitted there was one:
Adrian Lyne had offered her the lead in Unfaithful, the 2002 erotic
thriller that ultimately starred Diane Lane alongside Richard Gere and Olivier
Martinez. The film followed the breakdown of a suburban marriage after the wife
has an affair, and it went on to gross $119 million worldwide.
Lopez explained her reason for saying no: “The script wasn’t
good,” she said, referring to the screenplay by Alvin Sargent and William
Broyles Jr., which was adapted from Claude Chabrol’s 1969 French film La
Femme Infidèle. Despite her reservations about the writing, she
acknowledged, “Adrian [Lyne] made it great.”
Stern brought up the fact that Diane Lane earned a Best
Actress Oscar nomination for her performance — going up against Nicole Kidman (The
Hours), Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven), Salma Hayek (Frida),
and Renée Zellweger (Chicago). When asked if that was hard to live with,
Lopez responded honestly: “It’s funny. It haunts me. It haunts me a little bit.
It’s like the one that I turned down where I think, ‘Why did you turn down
working with Adrian Lyne? What were you thinking?’ I didn’t even know what was
going on in my head at the time.”
At the time she turned it down, Lopez was in the middle of a
booming career in both music and film. She had just released hits like The
Wedding Planner (with Matthew McConaughey) and Angel Eyes (with Jim
Caviezel). Around the same period as Unfaithful's release, she starred
in Enough, Maid in Manhattan, and Gigli — the latter
becoming one of the most notorious flops of her career.
Now, Lopez may be looking at a different awards outcome. Her
performance in Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman is already
generating early Oscar buzz, possibly giving her another shot at Academy
recognition.
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