Jennifer Lopez suffers from some critical love overload within the first trailer for her upcoming Amazon authentic movie That is Me… Now: A Love Story. The 2-minute clip that dropped on Wednesday morning (Jan. 17) offers a peek at what seems to be like an epic story of Lopez’s everlasting seek for love, full with an all-star supporting solid that features Fats Joe, Trevor Noah, Kim Petras, Submit Malone, Keke Palmer, Sofia Vergara, Jenifer Lewis, Jay Shetty, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sadhguru, Derek Hough and extra.
“I do know what they are saying about me… about hopeless romantics,” Lopez says in voiceover amid a swell of dramatic strings and a shot of the singer/actress first sharing a passionate kiss on the bottom after which on having her veil lifted on her marriage ceremony day. The she provides, “…that we’re weak. And I’m not weak.”
A fast-cut of Lopez strolling solemnly in a steamy subway, staring blankly right into a firepit and racing throughout a lake on a motorbike earlier than crashing out ends with the ominous warning: “Not all love tales have a cheerful ending.”
Longtime pal rapper Fats Joe then pops into body as Lopez’s cozy sweater-wearing therapist earlier than a roomful of her friends stage an intervention, telling Jen that they worry the “Love Don’t Value a Factor” singer is perhaps a intercourse addict. The preview options footage from the just-released film musical-style video for the earworm single “Can’t Get Sufficient” — the primary style of JLo’s upcoming This Is Me… Now album — as a part of a movie a launch describes as a, “narrative-driven cinematic odyssey, steeped in mythological storytelling and private therapeutic.”
The “genre-bending” authentic venture guarantees to showcase “her journey to like via her personal eyes. With fantastical costumes, breathtaking choreography, and star-studded cameos, this panorama is an introspective retrospective of Jennifer’s resilient coronary heart.” The trailer additionally finds Lopez in a assist group describing her childhood sharing a room together with her sister, mendacity awake at evening questioning how anybody can get shut-eye “when your coronary heart by no means goes to sleep.”
The narrative-driven quick movie from Amazon MGM Studios was directed by Dave Meyers (Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift) and written by Lopez and Matt Walton based mostly on a narrative by the singer, Meyers and Chris Shafer; it’s due out on Prime Video globally on the identical day because the album, Feb. 16.
In step with Meyers’ legendarily over-the-top, effects-laden clips for artists together with Harry Kinds (“Adore You”), Grande (“No Tears Left to Cry”) and Swift (“Me!”), the This Is Me movie preview options futuristic landscapes, elaborate, Gene Kelly-esque dance sequences and a parade of well-known faces all through.
The solid additionally contains husband Ben Affleck, in addition to Trevor Jackson, Paul Raci, Bella Gagliano, Brandon Delsid, Ashley Versher, Malcolm Kelner, Alix Angelis, Danielle Larracuente and Matthew Regulation.
In an Instagram publish that includes the trailer, Lopez wrote, “I’ve not been this nervous, excited, scared and thrilled to share one thing with you in years!! The story of the journey from This Is Me…Then to This Is Me…Now is probably the most private factor I’ve ever achieved.”
Take a look at the This Is Me… Now: A Love Story trailer beneath.
