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Jennifer Lopez in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
The Kiss of the Spider Woman star discusses whether she'd do a Broadway show in the near future.
A starring role for Jennifer Lopez on Broadway may come sooner than we think. In an interview alongside her co-star, Tonatiuh, to discussing their new movie, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Spectrum News' NY1 asked J-Lo about the possibility of her taking on a starring role on Broadway. Surprisingly, she isn't completely opposed to it.
"There's been a lot of talk about that since I did this movie," Lopez said, while referencing that one of the film's producers — Tom Kirdahy, a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and spouse of the late Terrence McNally, who wrote the book for the 1993 stage production that the movie is based on. In fact, the actress and pop star has received two calls from Sergio Trujillo, the choreographer of the Kiss of the Spider Woman film, who has seemingly brought up two ideas so far.
"Listen, I believe that everything will happen when it's supposed to, I am completely open to it, I think it would be a dream for me to do," Lopez said in the interview. "It would just have to be the right thing at the right time." When the interviewer pointed out that "we are due for a revival of Spider Woman," the multihyphenate agreed.
The two main stars of the film were the cover stars for Out's latest issue. In their interview, Lopez and Tonatiuh discussed their experiences working on this film together. Tonatiuh, who uses he/they pronouns, said that Lopez gave him some words of encouragement that filled him with gratitude during one of the filming dates on set. "I remember sitting there with him … I was in my blonde wig and smoking my cigarette, and he was sitting there kind of playing with his cigarette. And I said, ‘This is your Selena moment… It’s a blessing in your career. And it’s just beautiful to watch you doing it,'" Lopez said.
The actor recalled being so "overcome with gratitude" that after the film's director, Bill Condon (who also directed Chicago and Dreamgirls), called “cut,” Tonatiuh was instantly moved to tears.
Moises Mendez II is an Out Magazine staff writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He covers internet culture and entertainment, including television, movies, music, and more. Before joining Out, he was a Culture Reporter at TIME Magazine, and he previously worked as a freelance journalist, with work appearing in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, and more. Moises holds a master's degree in Arts and Culture journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Moises Mendez II is an Out Magazine staff writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He covers internet culture and entertainment, including television, movies, music, and more. Before joining Out, he was a Culture Reporter at TIME Magazine, and he previously worked as a freelance journalist, with work appearing in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, and more. Moises holds a master's degree in Arts and Culture journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
