Jennifer Lopez Says Her New Film Has No Message
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Romance, Comedy, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, New Releases, Scripts,
Here’s some shocking news: Jennifer Lopez‘s new film does not have a profound message.
The 40-year-old singer and actress admits The Back-Up Plan - which tells the tale of a single woman who becomes artificially inseminated the same day she finds the love of her life - says the movie is a romantic comedy many will be able to associate with:
“It’s not a message movie. It’s a romantic comedy. It definitely deals with modern issues, which I love. When I read it, that’s one of the things I really liked about it, it had a very modern voice. It seemed very up to date. I think that’s very important for romantic comedies - that they do deal with issues. It doesn’t feel like it’s a story from 20 years ago, which some romantic comedies can be like. So, that was one of the things that really attracted me to it.”
The mother-of-two also admits the movie imitated her own life because of her pregnancy with twins Max and Emme, two. “So many things in this movie were art imitating life for me because I had just gone through the pregnancy. It was just fresh in my mind. When Kate Angelo wrote the script, she had just gone through a pregnancy as well. She came up to me and I had just signed on to the movie. I was really excited about it.”
The Back-Up Plan comes out tomorrow, April 23.
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Role Refill: Kate Winslet Subs for Kidman
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Weinstein Company, Adaptation, Period, Romance, Casting, Upcoming Releases,
Although an unexpected pregnancy is usually a producer’s worst nightmare, Nicole Kidman’s recent announcement couldn’t have come at a better time. Her decision to drop out of The Reader, an adaptation of a 1995 novel, allowed the filmmakers to cast their original choice: Kate Winslet.
Winslet, who had expressed interest in Reader a while back, couldn’t commit due to a scheduling conflict. (She was busy filming Revolutionary Road with her Titanic co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, and director-husband, Sam Mendes.) That was when Nicole Kidman stepped in. Months down the road, their roles have reversed. With her work on Road now complete, Kate is free to star opposite Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient) as an older woman who has an affair with a teen in Post-WWII Germany.
Given Kidman’s role in 2004’s unsettling Birth, this whole thing may have worked out for the best. One movie about a relationship with a much younger man is really enough.
Variety