Jennifer Lopez has a golden nugget of fact to share with an leisure enterprise perpetually centered on the brand new younger factor: getting older is attractive, too. Possibly even, sexier.
“As you become old and you’ve got extra expertise, you turn into a richer human being and you’ve got extra to supply,” Lopez, 54, instructed Elle journal. “The thought of, ‘There’s nothing actually precious about watching a girl over 30’ is so ridiculous, it’s the alternative of proper. It simply makes me giggle.”
The truth is, Lopez mentioned, “Individuals have realized that ladies simply get sexier as they become old. They get extra realized and extra wealthy with character. All of that may be very lovely and enticing, and never simply bodily, however on the within, the sweetness that you just acquire as you become old, the knowledge you acquire.”
Lopez is gearing as much as launch her long-awaited ninth studio album, This Is Me… Now (Feb. 16), her first full-length launch in practically a decade and a companion album of kinds to 2022’s This Is Me… Then. The multi-hyphenate star govt produced the gathering with Rogét Chayed, Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman and HitBoy and she or he’ll pair it with the Dave Meyers-directed This Is Me… Now: The Movie, which can air on Prime Video in greater than 240 international locations.
It’s a full-court press of tasks from the star, who instructed the journal that she sees herself working so long as she needs to, no matter age. “I don’t know what that age is. It is perhaps 70, it is perhaps 80, it is perhaps 90, I don’t know,” she mentioned. l”However I do know that it’s there for me if I would like it and I wish to create it. That has all the time been the mindset that I’ve had: to by no means let anyone put me in a field due to the place I used to be born, the place I’m from, what age I’m, something like that. These boundaries don’t exist for me.”
Lopez — whose Nuyorican Productions shingle has been behind movies similar to Hustlers and The Mom — additionally defined why it’s necessary for her to make tasks for and about ladies. “You wish to make nice films, on the finish of the day. You wish to make nice tv. And that ought to hit everyone. However on the identical time, telling tales from a girl’s perspective does draw extra of a [female] viewers, or they relate to it extra, or they get extra fanatical about it and obsessive about it as a result of they will really feel that it’s not from the male gaze,” she mentioned.
“With all the good ladies producers, administrators, and actors who’re taking extra management of their careers and creating their very own materials, we’re in a really thrilling time for girls in Hollywood,” she added. “We’re not simply on the corners of life or on the skin of the tales. We’re the tales.”
For that purpose, Lopez mentioned that one of many key classes she’s realized through the years is that ladies should take possession and might’t wait round for different folks handy them roles, whereas acknowledging that taking cost is essential to getting issues executed. “A variety of actresses proper now, they produce their very own films and develop their very own materials, and I believe that’s key as nicely,” she mentioned.
