The film marks the first time the number has been included in a major production.<\/p>\n
Lopez said after a screening at Sundance in January: \u201cI\u2019ve been waiting for this moment my whole life. When you talk about the importance of musicals, the reason that I even wanted to be in this business was because my mom would sit me in front of the TV\u2026 we\u2019d come on once a year, West Side Story on Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember I was just mesmerised. And I was like, \u2018That\u2019s what I want to do\u2019. And that was always my goal. And this is the first time I actually got to do it. This crowd made my dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kiss of the Spider Woman tells the story of Valentin, played by Diego Luna, a political prisoner who shares a cell with Molina, portrayed by Tonatiuh, a window dresser jailed for public indecency.<\/p>\n
Molina distracts himself by recounting the story of a Hollywood musical starring his idol Ingrid Luna, played by Lopez.<\/p>\n
She also takes on the role of Aurora, a mysterious siren who haunts the narrative.<\/p>\n
The production brings together music by Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, blending old-Hollywood glamour with the harsh reality of prison life.<\/p>\n
The musical is based on the 1993 Broadway production written by Terrence McNally, which was adapted from Manuel Puig\u2019s 1976 novel.<\/p>\n
The stage version ran until 1995, winning seven Tony Awards including best musical, best actress for Chita Rivera, best actor for Brent Carver and best featured actor for Anthony Crivello.<\/p>\n
Never You is now available to stream, before the film\u2019s release in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The film marks the first time the number has been included in a major production. Lopez said after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,5071,593,2082,1300,19727,30126,13631,117,111,139,69,1118,697,13181,699,8628,30127,223,1354,197],"class_list":["post-31347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-feature","tag-film","tag-for","tag-jennifer","tag-kiss","tag-lopez","tag-never","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-recording","tag-released","tag-releases","tag-song","tag-spider","tag-the","tag-woman","tag-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}