What was So Darned Great About Jay Lo's Role
Everyone seemed to gush over her role. Come on, she was pulled along by the rest of the cast, the script and the director.
shareNot really. She's excellent here, playing squarely against her male co-stars with a character who is very much their equal. She plays her role intelligently, with touches of humour and a wry understanding of her motivations. She's more than up to the challenges of a well-written and smart script, and actually raises Clooney's game through being verbally and physically articulate enough to take the upper hand in their exchanges. Of course, it's written that way in places, but a lesser actress would have struggled to find the natural rhythm of the dialogue met with delicate touches and an assertiveness that's key to the role. Everything about her performance works and fits perfectly with what Clooney and the rest of the cast does.
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I agree completely. Loved JLo in the movie, she was perfect. I'm shocked so many people are dumping on her performance here. I really enjoyed everything about this movie.
shareI get the feeling she delivered exactly what they wanted.
I suppose if you thought she would steal the show, you might be disappointed, but she would have had a hard time stealing it from Zahn and Cheadle anyway, so...
I saw this last night for the first time (!) and was very impressed with her performance.
The only thing that bugged me was that her clothes and makeup were a little too perfect (but that wouldn't have been her fault).
The only thing that bugged me was that her clothes and makeup were a little too perfect (but that wouldn't have been her fault).
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The only reason this didn't bother me was because she, in the film always carried herself as someone that took care of herself.
She didn't look Kim Kardashian I spend 4 hours on make-up. But she did look like a woman that woke up an hour early to get her make-up together. I'm not hating on that.
I don't let anyone hot-comb out my HAIRitage! share
^ This.
At the time she wasn't J Lo, she was a promising up and coming actress coming off a Golden Globe nomination for Selena and a strong femme fatale effort in U-Turn. She had no music career, she wasn't the face of a multi national $330 million fashion and cosmetics brand. She had no Diva reputation. She was a young Latino dancer who'd worked her ass off to get some film roles and had been on a tear for about three years. It's not like she's ever been some wallflower stick figure type.
I saw this movie and knew that both her and Clooney were going to be massive stars. On top of Lopez's performance being an excellent one for all the reasons listed above, it was also given by someone with genuine star quality, a quality we hadn't really seen in her earlier peeformances which were equally well received.
Probably a rant, but i can't stand it when people project later baggage to diminish obviously great work.