Jennifer Lopez caused sensation to Sundance: "I waited for this moment all my life!"

Jennifer Lopez caused sensation to Sundance: “I waited for this moment all my life!”

The kiss of the spider woman, this time adapted by Bill Condon, conquered American festival -goers. His star takes the opportunity to reveal his first images.

“I waited for this moment all my life!”exclaimed Jennifer Lopez After the standing ovation received by The kiss of the spider womanof Bill Condon (Chicago, Dreamgirls, Beauty and the Beast Live action for Disney …) at the Sunday Festival.

“The reason why I wanted to do this job is because my mother settled me in front of television every year for the replay of West Side Story,, she continued, relayed by Variety. I was fascinated and I said to myself: ‘This is what I want to do with my life. ‘ This is the first time I have been able to do it, play in a musical. This man made my dream a reality. “

Kiss of the Spider Woman has already inspired a film with William Hurt, Sonia Braga and Raul Julia, in 1985. Hurt had also received two prestigious prizes for his role, in Cannes and Oscars. This new adaptation of Manuel Puig’s novel is, however, is more of its scenic version. In 1993, John Kander and Fred Ebb received the Tony Award for their musical with an eponymous title, and it was from this acclaimed work that Bill Condon draws his version, with Tonatiuh, Diego Luna and therefore Jennifer Lopez. “Condon brilliantly reinvents the Broadway musical and finally gives Jennifer Lopez the role she was born to play”written for example Deadline at the exit of public projection.

The intrigue takes place mainly in an Argentinian prison during the war. Luis Molina (Tonatiuh) is a gay displacement, who purges a sentence for having sex with a man. To escape the horrors of imprisonment, he tells his new cell companion the adventures full of life of his favorite diva, which is called here Ingrid Luna (Lopez). He is a political prisoner named Valentin Arregui (Luna), who was tortured by the authorities.

The welcome of Kiss the spider woman was warm to the star, but also her director, who had not presented an independent film in Sundance since 1998. At the time, he defended there Neither gods nor demonsthe biopic of director James Whale with Ian McKellen and Brendan Fraser. A drama already dealing with homosexuality. Following the first anti-Trans decisions of Donald Trump during his re-election, the director says he is fully aware of the importance of telling queer stories today, with the support of stars as popular as Jennifer Lopez, who invested Straight, learning complicated choreographies in order to interpret complete numbers, so that he can film them in sequence.

“I came here 27 years ago, it’s true, but the experience of launching this particular film is something that I will never forget, he commented on the Kiss the spider woman. I started thinking about it several years ago. Basically, it is even a film that I wanted to make all my life. His promise is that, in one way or another, people can see themselves as an individual.

And I must say that I love to work with a diva “, He adds laughing, greeting Jennifer Lopez.

The latter also celebrated the first screening of the film on Instagram, by sharing photos of the feature film and its preview:

The reception was so positive in Sundance that the auctions are currently climbing between distributors to acquire the rights of Kiss of the Spider Woman. Deadline Specifies that Searchlight and Mubi are interested in this film produced by Artists Equity, the new company of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

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