Jennifer Lopez Takes Fans Inside Her Life in ‘Halftime’ Documentary Trailer — and Ben Affleck Makes Cameo
18.05.2022 - 23:07
/ usmagazine.com
Sharing her story. Jennifer Lopez is ready to open up about the more challenging side of fame in the first look at her Halftime documentary.
“It was hard [and I] just had a very low self-esteem,” the Marry Me star, 52, says in the documentary trailer, which was released on Wednesday, May 18, describing how she felt after Hustlers was snubbed at the Academy Awards. “I had to really figure out who I was and believe in that and not believe anything else.”
She continued: “I do this not for an award, no, I do this to connect with people and make them feel things because I want to feel something. … My whole life I’ve been battling to be heard, to be seen, to be taken seriously.”
Directed by Amanda Micheli, Halftime is set to offer an “intimate peek behind the curtain revealing the grit and determination that makes Jennifer Lopez the icon she is,” according to a synopsis from Netflix. The doc — which hits the streaming platform next month — follows Lopez’s career achievements, including her 2020 Super Bowl halftime performance alongside Shakira and her rendition of “America the Beautiful” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
In the clip, the “Let’s Get Loud” songstress gets candid about life in the public eye and dealing with widespread attention about her looks and love life. As throwback footage from her decades in Hollywood flashes across the screen, Lopez’s fiancé, Ben Affleck, shares his perspective.
“I said to her once, ‘Doesn’t this bother you?’” the 49-year-old Tender Bar actor — who proposed to the New York native for a second time last month — says to the camera. “And she said, ‘I expected it.’”
While the Shades of Blue alum rose to fame as a pop star — with hits such as “Love Don’t Cost a Thing,” “Jenny From the Block,”