{"id":74302,"date":"2025-10-12T18:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74302\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:58:06","slug":"bill-condon-gushes-over-jennifer-lopezs-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74302\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Condon gushes over Jennifer Lopez&#8217;s performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/628270_2460616_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Jennifer Lopez receives praise from\u00a0Bill Condon\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0Jennifer Lopez receives praise from\u00a0Bill Condon<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lopez is earning glowing praise for her latest role in Kiss of the Spider Woman.<\/p>\n<p>In a new chat with PEOPLE Magazine at the film\u2019s New York City premiere on Monday, October 6, writer-director Bill Condon called Lopez\u2019s performance \u201cpowerful and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPowerful and beautiful and you\u2019re just left in awe,\u201d he said of Lopez, who also served as executive producer alongside her ex-husband Ben Affleck and Matt Damon under their Artists Equity banner.<\/p>\n<p>Condon added that Lopez brought her extensive experience and eye for detail to every part of the production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knows so much about everything to do with movie musicals \u2014 musical performance, choreographers, dance \u2014 so she always had a wonderful eye for everything that was going on, and casting everything. She was a great sounding board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker also teased what audiences can expect from the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cKiss of the Spider Woman is a tribute to the musicals that I love, but it\u2019s also a very serious movie \u2014 so there are two movies in one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want movies to give you the full meal; when you go to a restaurant, you don\u2019t just want a dessert or an appetizer,\u201d Condon added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I feel you get a deeply emotional experience, but then there\u2019s this big dollop of entertainment that makes it easier to accept,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo:\u00a0Jennifer Lopez receives praise from\u00a0Bill Condon Jennifer Lopez is earning glowing praise for her latest role in Kiss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-74302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74302","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=74302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}