Jennifer Lopez

The artist has a lot to say in her new documentary, "Halftime," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last week and rolled out on Netflix on Tuesday.

"The truth is I really started to think I was going to get nominated," she says in the documentary. "As an artist, I kind of lost a little bit of who I was in trying to kind of build a perfect life, a family life," she said. "That's something I fought for in my career," she says. "When I started working, the beauty ideal was very thin, blonde, tall, not a lot of curves," she says. "There were many times where I was like I think I'm just going to quit," she says. It was seeing images and footage of kids in cages at the border that made her feel like she "couldn't believe" what she was watching. "It made me realize that I had a responsibility to not be quiet," she adds. "And a lot of those people are just good people who are looking for the American dream. "I said to her once, doesn't this bother you?" "But I was living in a United States I didn't recognize. She says she stood her ground, asserting that "The Super Bowl is tomorrow and we're not changing anything." Emme, Lopez's daughter, also joined her mother on stage and sang a few bars of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" as Lopez unfurled a feathery flag that featured the American and Puerto Rican flags on it.

"I believed a lot of what they said, which is that I wasn't really good," she says in her new Netflix documentary.

Halftime serves as the kickoff to the second half of Lopez's life, as she lays bare her evolution as a Latina, a mother, and an artist, taking agency in her career and using her voice for a greater purpose." "No matter what I achieved, [the media's] appetite to cover my personal life overshadowed everything," she says in the film. In Halftime, the Netflix film that explores her decades-spanning career as a giant in the entertainment industry, Lopez opens up about wanting to leave Hollywood for good.

The singer and actress, 52, said she was propelled to fame at a time when the celebrity body ideal was super-skinny and said not fitting the mould ...

But it wound up affecting things in a way that I never intended.” She said in her documentary ‘Halftime’: “There were many times where I was just like, ‘I think I’m just going to quit.’ I had to really figure out who I was. I grew up around women with curves, so it was nothing I was ever ashamed of.

In the Netflix documentary about Jennifer Lopez's life and career by the director Amanda Micheli, the political moments are brief, and then it's back to ...

She says that worrying about her children’s futures, and “living in a United States she didn’t recognize,” galvanized her. A film about Jennifer Lopez and her performance at the Super Bowl in 2020 was bound to generate headlines, but the Netflix documentary “Halftime” makes sure it happens. Complex topics like being a woman in a male-dominated movie industry and Hollywood double standards are explored briefly; more often, Lopez comments on fan-service subjects like the tabloids and that iconic Versace dress from the 2000 Grammys.

Netflix's documentary following the pop star and Hustlers actor is more revealing than you might expect.

Painting Lopez as equal parts glamour (constantly attached to a brilliantly ludicrous bejewelled soda cup) and grit (relentless in her pursuit of the perfect performance), it provides just enough vulnerability to at least feel as though we are getting the tiniest of glimpses behind the glittery curtain. Although we see some childhood photos and a fleeting interview with Lopez’s mother, Halftime rockets through her biography – the ingenue, the popstar, the rom-com era, the tabloid fodder, the “diva” – in favour of focusing on the present day. Decades of battling racist stereotypes and being made a punchline (as evidenced by grubby late night talk show clips) have left Lopez still desperate for validation from her own industry.

J.Lo and A-Rod became engaged in March 2019, but announced their split in March 2020.

Since the split, Lopez has reconnected with Ben Affleck, who she had dated from 2001 to 2003. "I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years, this was happening all over again. I'm so grateful for where God and and and the light has really put me, and I'm really looking forward. He's come to terms with the fact that it's over now." People reported at the time that the reason for their split was because Lopez had trouble trusting Rodriguez, with a source telling the publication: "She insisted on it. "We wish the best for each other and one another's children.

In the Netflix documentary Halftime, Jennifer Lopez plays a different role: cultural underdog.

In the end, it’s not so much that Halftime is a watchable film because Lopez is especially sympathetic as a multimillionaire A-lister underdog. “The truth is I really started to think I was gonna get nominated,” she says to the camera. “Frankly it’s thrilling to see a criminally underrated performer” — her voice catches in her throat — “get her due from prestige film outlets.” Recent documentaries about white women celebrities in the ‘90s and aughts have accused the media of mistreating these stars. It’s really about the industry politics surrounding Lopez, including the reception of Hustlers. The documentary shows her getting her hopes up with the press reaction to the movie and even reads a flattering article on camera. She quickly segued from a dancing Fly Girl on the comedy show In Living Color to Selena, and then finally to Hollywood A-lister and major pop star. But as she gained power and celebrity, there were persistent backlashes and jokes about her ethnicity and body. She was the first Latina paid $1 million for a movie role with 1997’s Selena and then broke records when her album and movie — J.Lo and The Wedding Planner — shot to No. 1 on the charts the same week of 2001. Recent documentaries about white women celebrities in the ’90s and aughts have accused the media of mistreating these stars. Then again, at least Lopez is honest about her aims (one of her albums is simply called Love?). In typical Lopez fashion, there are full-glam confessionals where she sits in a director’s chair and reflects on her life as images flash onscreen. I want something that’s gonna make a statement,” Jennifer Lopez says to an NFL producer in her new Netflix documentary, Halftime. She’s responding to executives trying to cut out scenes of children in cages from her Super Bowl show, and she’s fed up.

In her new Netflix documentary Halftime, J. Lo gets candid about the repercussions of fame on her psyche and wellbeing.

"People could see me for who I was and that changed everything." "I said to her once, 'Doesn't this bother you?'" he reminisces in the film. "There were many times where I was just like, 'I think I'm just going to quit,'" she says in the film.