Life is imitating art for Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda.
Fonda once played Lopez’s disapproving mother-in-law-to-be within the 2005 romantic comedy film “Monster-in-Law.” Now, the 86-year-old actress is once more not holding her tongue on the subject of the “I’m Real” singer’s real-life selections.
Fonda appears in Lopez’s forthcoming Amazon Prime Video movie, “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story,” which accompanies Lopez’s ninth studio album, “This Is Me … Now,” as a part of the movie’s “zodiac counsel.” But despite her appearance, the “Book Club” star had her hesitations due to J.Lo’s husband Ben Affleck.
“I would like you to know that I don’t entirely know why, but I feel invested in you and Ben, and I really need this to work,” Fonda says within the upcoming documentary “The Best Love Story Never Told,” which follows the making of the album and film, in accordance with Variety.”
“Nevertheless, that is absurd,” she added. “Like, it feels too very like you’re attempting to prove something as an alternative of just living it. You realize, every other photograph is the 2 of you kissing and the 2 of you hugging.”
Unfazed by her remarks, Lopez, 54, just laughed and said, “That’s just us living our life.”
Fonda also voiced her concern after seeing paparazzi pics of Affleck, 51, looking sad alongside Lopez on the 2023 Grammy Awards.
“He looks unhappy and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, what’s happening?’” Fonda tells Lopez within the documentary.
“Nothing,” Lopez retorted. “He was like, ‘I’ve turn into the symbol of the beleaguered man.’”
Before she agreed to seem in “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story,” Fonda spoke with Lopez’s manager Benny Medina, in accordance with Variety.
“I feel that everybody in the whole world is pulling for this relationship and this love,” Fonda told Medina. “And the thought of the way you present that’s so sacrosanct, so essential. It needs to be handled in a way that you simply aren’t overly flaunting it, a lot in order that it creates any type of criticism or resentment.”
Film producer Elaine Goldsmith Thomas also shared her critiques with Lopez regarding the project, which will probably be released on Friday, February sixteenth.
“I’m in Latest York, and she or he’s saying, ‘I believe I’m going to finance this myself.’ I used to be like, ‘Wait, what?’ I don’t even know what it’s. What are you doing?’ I used to be frightened. ‘Why are you sharing your story? It’s too personal. Stop it.’ It made me uncomfortable for her,” Goldsmith Thomas told Variety.
“I used to be afraid that she was telling her journey and that it will appear to be it was saying, ‘Here’s my journey from Ben to Ben.’ And it’s not about that” she added. “It’s about, ‘Here’s what I’ve been through for the past 20 years, and I kept walking into the identical wall and blaming the wall until I began to have a look at myself.’”