One of the crucial revealing moments of Jennifer Lopez‘s Prime Video documentary The Biggest Love Story By no means Instructed is the behind-the-scenes take a look at the casting course of for her musical movie, This Is Me…Now: A Love Story.
Within the Heights‘ Anthony Ramos turned down a suggestion to seem out of respect for his good friend and Lopez’s ex-husband, Marc Anthony. Khloé Kardashian was allegedly alleged to make a cameo, however rejected the position. Taylor Swift was a no. Ariana Grande was busy filming Depraved. Jason Momoa was not accessible, as had been Jennifer Coolidge and Snoop Dogg. Lizzo was additionally stated to be unavailable.
After watching the documentary, Lizzo took to TikTok to disclaim that she rejected a task within the musical movie. “Ain’t no one informed me nothing!,” she stated. “No person requested me! JLo, I like you.”
It’s attainable somebody may have handed on the supply on behalf of the “About Rattling Time” singer. A fan identified within the feedback why Lizzo was doubtless unavailable: “You had been on tour!” Lizzo spent the spring and summer season of 2023 on her Particular Tour, which was across the time that Lopez was engaged on her venture.
Lopez deliberate a three-part venture for the discharge of her first album in over a decade, This Is Me…Now. She made This Is Me…Now: A Love Story as a visible car for her document, giving followers a wider glimpse at her many difficult romances and reunion with now-husband Ben Affleck. The documentary, The Biggest Love Story By no means Instructed, was filmed to indicate the method of self-financing the musical film, in addition to giving a take a look at the multi-hyphenate’s dynamic with Affleck behind closed doorways.
Whereas talking with THR about This Is Me…Now: A Love Story, Lopez defined why she determined to make a musical film expertise, relatively than creating particular person music movies for the album. “I didn’t assume it was proper to throw out a video and do the traditional factor. I wished to do one thing actually completely different with this. I referred to as [music video director] Dave Meyers, we sat down collectively and I performed him a number of the music. He says that I sang a number of the music to him, too,” she stated.
Lopez continued, “I informed him that I made this album 20 years in the past, and now we’re right here, and he stated, ‘That’s the story. The story you simply informed me is the story.’ I informed him that I didn’t wish to inform the story of Ben and I, as a result of individuals know that story. I wished to do one thing completely different. So we embarked upon how to do this in a visible method with singing, dancing and humorous in a life-like method.”
