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Did Jennifer "burn bridges" with her 1998 interview with Movieline?


By being too "frank" about her peers at the time:

http://movieline.com/1998/02/01/the-wow-jennifer-lopez/

Cameron Diaz? "A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she would have done more with. She's beautiful and has a great presence, though, and in My Best Friend's Wedding, I thought, 'When directed, she can be good.'"

Gwyneth Paltrow? "Tell me what she's been in? I swear to God, I don't remember anything she was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt than I ever heard about her work."

Claire Danes? "A good actress. Her emotional and inner life are available to her, which is a good start. But I feel like I see a lot of the same thing with every character she does. She's not that way in U-Turn, though."

Winona Ryder? "I was never a big fan of hers. In Hollywood she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love her.' She's cute and talented, though, and I'd like her just for looking like my older sister, Leslie."

Madonna? "Do I think she's a great performer? Yeah. Do I think she's a great actress? No. Acting is what I do, so I'm harder on people when they say, 'Oh, I can do that--I can act.' I'm like, 'Hey, don't spit on my craft.'"


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Ha ha. J-Lo thinks she can act!

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Well, I shouldn't think it endeared her to many people.

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This interview is crazy. Especially this part:

"What did you learn about Oliver Stone's sensitive side from being directed by him?" I ask. Letting out a hoot, Lopez observes, "That he's a wild man. He doesn't hide anything when it comes to sex in his life. He loves women, he has a lot of sex. He loves talking about how he sleeps with women. Like he'll come onto the set going, 'Aggghh, I was up fucking until four in the morning until I passed out.' Oliver is a great guy, highly sexual, and he was so good to me making the movie. Oh, and something else--I'm attracted to scent and he smells really great, like spicy lavender. You know what those expensive purple candies smell like in your mouth? The ones nobody has here but you can get in New York and Europe? That's what he smells like."

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"in your mouth?" Who tricked her into what? WTF is she talking about? I liked her comments in the OP but this is more in line with the insanity I'm familiar with from her.

Not shocked at all to find out that Stone lacks decorum or a filter. He was always a classic stage-one thinker.

On Lopez: Other than in Out of Sight, I am unimpressed with her acting. I don't find any of her music interesting at all; it's all hook-free distillations of the genre. Like she got what was left over in the "songs for sale" bin after the decent ones were poached. She is pretty and is maintaining that beauty into her years very well. Yet still, I am more attracted to most other actresses than her.

Did she burn bridges? Nah. Nothing she said would change her position in the biz. She was already in the low rung category.

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