Jennifer Lopez’s opinion on her fellow actresses in a 1998 interview

J-Lo makes Camille Paglia seem nurturing.

Her comments present a great opportunity to appreciate Claire Danes’s ‘limited range.’

My So-Called Life: angsty, awkward grungy teen

Romeo + Juliet: lovelorn, beautiful teen

Brokedown Palace: Wrongfully imprisoned teen

The Hours: Zenful but concerned, supportive daughter

Stardust: Ethereal, strongwilled fallen star

Temple Grandin: Autistic cattle ranching genius with panic attacks

Homeland: Badass, often ugly mentally unstable CIA agent

That doesn’t count Little Women, Les Meserables and others. She’s one of Hollywood’s all-time most unsung great actresses.

Jennifer Lopez, she’s pretty.

r2 You’re not unsung when you have three Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She gave up on My So Called Life too soon for a movie career that quickly fizzled our after the successful Romeo + Juliet. I think she’s also claimed that she passed on Titanic which was a bad career move. It’s not a writing masterpiece but it would have opened doors and made her an A-lister. Kate Winslet has only started a handful of mainstream films in her career and she’s still been permanently A-list because of that film. Kate Winslet also took a lot of other early 2000s American roles I think Claire Danes would have done well in too.

Meanwhile, Claire’s prime(youth and attractiveness wise) was spent giving great performances in mediocre films. I guess she had a bad agent? She finally turned it around by going back to TV but now she’s wasted a great deal of her remaining youth on a show that’s been beneath her for the last 4-5 seasons. I guess it’s because the checks are good and she has a family to support? The show is finally ending this year but she’s 40 now so it’s a bit late to turn herself into the A-list leading lady. She’s still securely B-list and young enough to get good, meaty roles. Maybe she’s excepted the bring screen isn’t for her and she’ll do a Netflix/Hulu series next. She’s like a slightly prettier Elizabeth Moss.

R3 She may have awards, but I still think she is underappreciated as an actress. Even I usually don’t think of her when I consider great actresses of her era (Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow (yes, I said it), Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, Renee Zellweger) but then when she comes to mind I always think of her among their company. She just seems to have less of a public movie star persona but she can play plain, pretty, homely, dignified and regal, rough and ragged, brilliant and naive, all seemingly with ease. She’s extremely versatile and always convincing.

JHO is a jealous no talent hack who can't sing or act. She's 5 clicks above Meghan Markle's level of acting. Just barely.

Jennifer Lopez had a broad range...chubby at 25, strikingly gorgeous at 50.

This concludes Jennifer Lopez’s range.

r4 Well as I said, that’s all due to the roles she took in the late 90s and early 2000s. Talent means nothing if the parts/films aren’t good. She gets her due from the public and the industry when she stars in something worthy of talent. It can’t be argued that My So Called Life and Romeo + Juliet aren’t huge parts of 90s nostalgia. Homeland was quite popular for a while. She’s had her moments in the sun, they’re just few and far in between a lot of mediocre stuff.

Hey, R4, I would include Frances McDormand in that group.

R8 Isn’t she older? She seems like a baby boomer in my mind. All the others are gen X.

r9 Yeah, she’s 62. I wouldn’t put her in that age group either.

I remember the interview it was in Movieline which had a way of getting people to say regrettable things, I loved that publication. Lopez... wasn't wrong but no one has ever said she is a great actor and the idea she deserved an Oscar for that boring jiggle movie was laughable.

Jlo thought she should have won the 2007 Oscar for that Spanish movie she did with Marc Anthony. She claimed the Academy didn't bother to watch it, thus denying her a nomination.

Jho is neither talented or beautiful. Even with all that slap.

Oh come on, you can't say she's not gorgeous. That is the one thing she has going for her. Jennifer Lopez is a beautiful looking creature.

This is the worst she has been caught looking, without makeup or hair. She's gorgeous. Her voice is more limited than Madonna's. Her dancing is poorer than Madonna's. Her acting is a little better than Madonna's. But she is a stunner.

J lo is just like madonna: mad ambition not much talent

the only thing I liked JLO in was Selena and that had more to do with liking the source material

Oh, brother.

Jlo never really got her boobs out in her career. Just once in Money Train and again in U-Turn, even then she was being jumped by mongers Wesley Snips and greasy Sean Penn so diminished the overall impact. If she'd shown them off more then she might have been offered better roles. They were delectable.

[R14] she has beautiful warm coloring even with no makeup. Where is the yellow bone troll?

Have any of you marys seen Out of Sight. She was brilliant in that.

JLo is gorgeous but she didn’t always look like JLo. Back in her Flygirl days she was chubby with wild curly hair dyed too black, thick black eyebrows and pasty white skin. None of the JLo glow of today.

Brilliant is a strong word R20. She was good and she peaked in that.

R21 this is chubby? She looks fit to me.

JLo got famous by fucking all the right black guys. That's her only real talent.

R11 I keep hearing that about Movieline, but the only example given is usually this JLo interview. Were there any other PR bombs of this caliber?

r23, to fully appreciate her chubbiness, you need to watch the earliest videos of her on ILC. The word that comes to mind is thick.

R14. That is not the worst. She is unexceptional-looking and greatly helped by professionally applied makeup. Someone on another site said she looks like unseasoned chicken without makeup, LOL.

She does have a nice complexion here.

She is nowhere near gorgeous r14, ever. Cindy Crawford in her prime was gorgeous. Linda Evangelista was gorgeous. Jennifer doesn't come close. She's very plain and average. You pass prettier girls in the street.

r28, not sure I would agree. Cindy and Linda were amazing but each has a totally different type of beauty. JLo was the OG Big Ass with a twist of Puerto Rican too! She ushered in curves bodies and caramel skin all by herself. So, just different kinds of beauty. Most men don’t find Linda attractive at all but want to bang JLo.

Before and after:

46-years-old, in unfiltered HD, with lots of makeup. Yikes!

R26 I see what you mean.

if Selena didn't die she would be working at taco bell.

r33 Lies

She's a butterface.

Movieline was legend for getting these types of interviews. I remember this one and recall being surprised Lopez made any success in the entertainment industry, she was right but this is much shit talking.

And yet no one can pull up another instance of "these types of interviews" Movieline was "legend" for, R36.

Stephen Dorff bashing all his peers, specifically Chris ODonnell.ODonell mocking his too intense peers and sidestepping Dorffs put downs, very funny stuff .

After this interview, Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow pointedly, with deliberate obviousness, exited the room when JLo appeared at a party thrown by some "A" List power-agent.

I envision both at that party, sitting together, whispering about JLO "Mean Girl" style. Of course, now those two don't speak to each other, speculation being that Paltrow hit on Guy Ritchie.

Anyway, that's all I remember reading in that old gossip rag, Vanity Fair.

[quote]if Selena didn't die she would be working at taco bell.

Selena or Jennifer?

Wow DL is way too picky. The HD photo isn't even bad for mid 40s and in the direct sun.

She's 100% right about GOOP, who would be doing Hallmark Holiday movies if it weren't for her connections.

WTF? Selena was a superstar with talent and good looks!

r43 She was too Mexican. She would have never been a star

At least Jello has a great body, that's about it.

I did enjoy her in that movie where she was stalked by her crazy controlling husband, think it was called ENOUGH?