In 2020, at the gates of the pandemic that would paralyze the world for two years, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira accidentally starred in a kind of closure of the old world with their spectacular performance during the halftime of the Super Bowl. A tribute to the Latin culture that Lopez tell now in depth how it was prepared. He does it in the documentary half-time, presented at the opening of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Where, by the way, she dazzled with a great dress signed by Tom Ford.
Thanks to the Netflix documentary we have been able to know that the singer and actress from the Bronx always thought that it had not been a good idea put on two great latin stars at the same time to star in the famous NFL show.
“This is the worst idea in the world. That two artists perform at the Super Bowl was the worst idea in the world“JLo is seen saying in the documentary. In addition, he also appears arguing with the NFL to get more time to be able to execute his set well.
“We have six minutes. We have 30 seconds of a song, and if we take one minute, that’s it, we have five left.” Jennifer Lopez complained about the little time they had to act. “We have to have our moment. It’s not going to be a fucking dance revue,” she can be heard saying at one point.
Perhaps the reasons for his anger can be understood even better with the words of his manager, Benny Medina: “It was an insult to think that you needed two Latinas to do the work that has historically been done by a single artist,” he declares before the cameras.
Although, in principle, the reasons would have nothing to do with a feud between JLo and Shakira personally, now we do better understand the tensions that we could see prior to the famous match and the lack of chemistry between the two at the presentation press conference of the Show.
In addition to witnessing in the first person the progress in the planning and rehearsals of the show, it is also told how the performance of his daughter Emme was about to be censored. Lopez wanted to take advantage of part of the camera minutes she had to launch a message contrary to the immigration policy of President Donald Trump and, therefore, the dancing girls who accompanied her appeared in cages.
“It was very important to me that my daughter told all the girls in the world to raise their voices,” explains the singer. The full documentary will be available next June 14 on Netflix.
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