Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner's cuddling and the gossip that Selena Gómez told Taylor Swift competed for prominence with the other great viral episode of the Golden Globes: Brie Larson's fan moment with Jennifer Lopez. While the captain marvelnominated for a Golden Globe for the series Food with chemistry, was being interviewed, JLo appeared and excitement broke out. Brie Larson fanned herself with her hands and threatened to start crying: “Oh my god, I can't handle JLo. She was the reason why I wanted to be an actress,” she confessed to the journalist as the singer inexorably approached. Finally, they both met and Brie Larson was able to tell him in person that she went after seeing her in Selena when he decided he wanted to pursue acting: “Your work ethic is so important, thank you. “I have wanted to tell you this for a long time,” she told him. One of the most viral moments of the night in which Jennifer Lopez also got emotional, because it reminded her of herself when she was a child, as she said on January 10 in an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1. “I remember how as a child I saw West Side Story and how much Rita Moreno meant to me. “I saw myself and that little girl and to think that I did something like that for someone is really exciting,” she said.
Last year marked the 25th anniversary of the premiere of Selenaa biopic of the Latin artist who was murdered in 1995—when the artist was only 23 years old—by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar. Two years later, in 1997, the film was released that told the story of her, played by an almost unknown actress with Puerto Rican roots, somewhat highly criticized then by those who claimed that a Mexican should be the one to play the role. Jennifer Lopez's excellent performance surprised everyone, putting her name on the Hollywood map. This was a role that changed her life, not only did it make her the first Latin actress to earn a million dollars for a leading role, but it also taught her a lot about the price of fame: “It's been like that since Selena,” Jennifer Lopez explained to a journalist from W Magazine who accompanied him for an interview and witnessed how the crowd accompanied the artist wherever she went: “I never thought about fame until then. After that movie I had panic attacks. I remember walking down the street and having someone I didn't know yell my name. From that moment I realized that she could never be alone in public again,” she said.
Selena Not only did it mark a before and after in Jennifer Lopez's career, but it has also been a symbol for the Latin population in the United States and it was after its premiere that Hollywood began to have more Latin actors and produce series and movies related to this community. In 2021 a petition was made for Selena out included in the National Film Registry of the United Statestrusting that this would add pressure on Hollywood to increase the Latino presence in the industry and to do so by moving away from the stereotypes that usually mark the roles played by Latinos, such as hypersexualized women or gang members and drug traffickers.
Last year, when it celebrated its quarter of a century, the film once again occupied theaters in the United States, playing in more than 500 theaters. “The return of this film is a sample of the magic of Selena. It's surprising for us. The fact that the movie is now more popular than when it was released. “It means a lot to everyone,” declared the director of the film. Gregory Nava, a NBCNews. Nava also recalled one of the most exciting scenes in the film, the last concert that Selena gave in Houston in front of 35,000 people: “There were no special effects there. All those people were real, they were really filling the stadium. As a director you sit in front of that huge crowd, Jennifer comes on stage and performs incredibly. People went crazy, crying and celebrating. Her family was there. “I have never experienced anything so exciting.”
Brie Larson was 8 years old when the film was released and for her, and judging by the anecdote from the Golden Globes, also Selena It was one of the most exciting moments of his life.
#Brie #Larson #unexpected #vindication #Jennifer #Lopez #reason #actress
