{"id":177609,"date":"2025-10-03T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/177609\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:54:11","slug":"jennifer-lopez-reveals-what-she-told-ben-affleck-to-make-kiss-of-the-spider-woman-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/177609\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez Reveals What She Told Ben Affleck to Make \u201cKiss of the Spider Woman\u201d ‘Happen’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n

Jennifer Lopez shared how Ben Affleck helped ensure her new movie Kiss of the Spider Woman made it to the big screen in a new interview<\/p>\n

“I told him, ‘This is a role that I was born to play,’ and I wanted to do it, and he said ‘Okay,’ and he helped make it happen,” Lopez said<\/p>\n

Affleck produced Kiss of the Spider Woman with Matt Damon through their company Artists Equity<\/p>\n

Jennifer Lopez<\/a> is sharing how her ex-husband Ben Affleck<\/a> helped bring her first movie-musical to fruition.<\/p>\n

When Lopez, 56, appeared on the Sunday, Sept. 28 episode of CBS News Sunday Morning<\/a>, the actress noted that Affleck, 53, and his production company Artists Equity<\/a> helped finance her dream project, Kiss of the Spider Woman<\/a>. “He is,” Lopez said, when asked about Affleck’s role as an executive producer on the film. “The movie wouldn’t have been made if it wasn’t for him and Artists Equity. That is right, and I will always give him that credit.”<\/p>\n

During their two-year marriage (Lopez\u00a0filed for divorce<\/a>\u00a0on Aug. 20, 2024), Affleck and his longtime friend and producing partner Matt Damon<\/a> worked with Lopez to bring Kiss of the Spider Woman, an adaptation of the 1993 Broadway musical, to the big screen. Lopez is also an executive producer on the project.<\/p>\n

When asked if Affleck “was pushing” for Lopez to take a role in the movie, she replied, “No, because they financed it.” She added, “I told him, ‘This is a role that I was born to play,’ and I wanted to do it, and he said ‘Okay,’ and he helped make it happen.”<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Lopez in Kiss of the Spider Woman<\/p>\n

Kiss of the Spider Woman is not the only movie Affleck and Lopez worked on together during their marriage. Damon and Affleck also produced Lopez’s 2024 boxing biopic Unstoppable<\/a>, in which she played the mother of real-life wrestler\u00a0Anthony Robles<\/a>\u00a0(Jharrel Jerome<\/a>). That movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival<\/a> in September 2024, which Affleck skipped<\/a> in the wake of their divorce.<\/p>\n

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Taylor Hill\/Getty; Eric Charbonneau\/Amazon MGM Studios via Getty<\/p>\n

Jennifer Lopez on May 26, 2025; Ben Affleck on April 16, 2025<\/p>\n

Lopez’s Kiss of the Spider Woman made its world premiere at the\u00a0Sundance Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0in January.<\/p>\n

“Valent\u00edn (Luna), a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency,” an official synopsis<\/a> for the movie reads. “The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Lopez).”<\/p>\n

At the Sundance premiere of\u00a0Kiss of the Spider Woman,\u00a0Lopez got emotional and said during a Q&A appearance<\/a>, “I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life.”<\/p>\n

“When you talk about the importance of musicals, the reason that I even wanted to be in this business was because\u00a0my mom\u00a0would sit me in front of the TV … we’d come on once a year,\u00a0West Side Story\u00a0on Thanksgiving,” she recalled.<\/p>\n

“I remember I was just mesmerized,” she added at Sundance. “I was like, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ That was always my goal. And this is the first time I actually got to do it. This crowd made my dream come true.”<\/p>\n

Kiss of the Spider Woman\u00a0is in theaters Oct. 10.<\/p>\n

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