Among everything we could see this week, ranging from a new romantic series For the latest film by Chris Hemsworth, we have chosen a documentary because it has never been so necessary to put a name and surname on the work of a lifetime.
Documentaries related to music, such as Beyoncé or Britney Spears’s, give us the opportunity to meet our favorite artists in a more intimate way. When you finish watching it, they may show you that all that admiration also deserves respect for a lifetime of work well done. With Jennifer Lopez documentary on Netflix just that happens.
We could try to convince you to see it by telling you that it is a diva, that it is one of the queens of the summer songs, or tell you that Jennifer Lopez is a woman who hasn’t had it easy, although you might think otherwise if you see her in a limousine. with a powerful story behind, Jennifer Lopez: Halftime shows us a woman as strong as she is vulnerableand we love that.
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She grew up in the Bronx, in a Puerto Rican family, and to make a living from dancing she soon went to live alone. From a very young age she had to fight with conditions that made it difficult for her at the beginning and that over the years, empowered her: being a woman and Latina. But the luck is that resilience is the greatest virtue of the artist.
Before being a singer, she started as an actress. Her first role as a leading lady came in 1993 and she continues to act (her last job of hers has been a romantic comedy with Owen Wilson and Maluma, Marry me). In the world of music everything began on June 1, 1999 with the release of his first album, On the 6a tribute to the subway line in New York that he took every day to go to his singing classes.
Judgments on her image (such as becoming the first viral image in Versace’s famous green dress), the impostor syndrome that is glimpsed throughout the documentary, the fact that they did not take her seriously and doubted her talent haunted her even when One more night either Let’s Get Loud I used to hit it on the dance floors.
Hear firsthand how has had to work triple to reach the top It is just a sample of what the documentary teaches us, of his struggle with the industry, with prejudices and with his own level of demand.
He talk to us about the preparation of the Super Bowl with Shakirashows us his training and rehearsals not only to go on stage but to star in blockbusters such as Wall Street Scammers. The documentary is a glimpse into a successful life that hides a lot, a lot of work.
Being born as JLo did not seem easy to us before seeing her documentary Jennifer Lopez: Halftime on Netflix. But after seeing it we make sure that the singer, producer, actress, businesswoman and above all, diva, has been a fighter in a world that has never made it easy for her.
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