Jennifer Lopez wishes she'd landed more action roles

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Despite the speculation that there’s trouble in paradise for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, a new report swears that they are still going strong!

Jennifer Lopez expressed feeling guilty when she cannot protect her children. During a conversation with Audacy, Lopez opened up on the things she wishes she could protect her children from.“Everything. There’s so many things.

The Mother is a mutha of an intimately scaled action film, a violent female-centric drama about a hardened combat veteran who has great difficulty adapting to being anything other than a tough soldier, and that includes being a mother. Joining Kathryn Bigelow, Patty Jenkins, Gina Prince-Blythewood, Mimi Leder and the Wachowski siblings among women responsible for notable action features, Aussie director Niki Caro (Whale Rider, Mulan) has delivered a film that could easily have veered into sentiment at any moment but instead remains tough as nails and doesn’t go soft at the end. The film would surely have an even greater impact on the big screen but, as it is, launched Friday on Netflix.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In a movie career that stretches back 25 years, Jennifer Lopez has on occasion done flaked-out underworld thriller romance (“Out of Sight”), capery action (“Parker”) and revenge (“Enough”). Yet she has never placed herself at the center of such a down-and-dirty, grimly overwrought, execute-now-and-ask-questions-later B-movie as “The Mother.” I’m tempted to call the film “minimalist,” because if you consider its bare-bones screenplay (by three writers!), its convoluted utilitarian set-up, its 2D villains, and its essential formulaic momentum, it’s a prime example of action filmmaking made basic. Yet “The Mother” is a Netflix action movie, which means that it has a certain flavor of ambition mixed into its pulp stew. The movie, which should have been 90 minutes long (it’s 116), is lumpy and inflated, it’s sketchy yet a touch grandiose, and it’s full of tersely dramatized scenes that somehow feel overly broad. Lopez, as a military sniper turned broker of underground arms deals turned FBI informant turned savagely cool-headed protector of her 12-year-old daughter, is playing a badass not so far removed from those played by Jason Statham or (in his grade-B prime) Bruce Willis, and she’s up to the task. She shoots, she stabs, she chops windpipes, she motorcycles down stone stairways in one of those chase-through-an-ancient-city action scenes (this one takes place in Havana), she tortures a man by punching him with a fist wrapped in barb wire, she grimaces in muscle-torn agony but mostly looks frozen and implacable. Even more important, she puts her own spin on those familiar motions.

The Mother” is like a lot of Netflix action-dramas of late: A mix of different genres with hints of a darker, possibly richer story, that ended up being excised due to budget and/or time constraints. There is a lot of well-worn inspiration to be found in its familiar plot, from the survivalist parent/daughter relationship found in the 2011 feature “Hanna” to another Jennifer Lopez feature, 2018’s “Second Act” in which Lopez’s character is also at odds with a daughter she gave up at birth named Zoe. All of this is to say a film like “The Mother” shouldn’t work, and it doesn’t completely gel 100 percent.

Jennifer Lopez is opening up about her newest action thriller, The Mother.

The power of manifestation! Jennifer Lopez is opening up about remarks her mom recently made about how badly she always wanted the actress to reconnect with Ben Affleck.

Jennifer Lopez is opening up about remarks her mom recently made about how badly she always wanted the actress to reconnect with Ben Affleck.Lopez and Affleck walked the red carpet at the premiere of her new action thriller,, at the Westwood Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles on Wednesday.The couple packed on the PDA while posing for cameras, and a beaming Lopez spoke with ET's Kevin Frazier about her mom's recent comments with the Today show about how she'd been hoping the pair would rekindle their romance for over two decades.«It's so funny, she never said that to me,» Lopez told ET, laughing. «We never spoke about it.»Lopez and Affleck got married last August, after rekindling their romance.

Ben Affleck‘s opinion matters when it comes to Jennifer Lopez picking out and editing movie projects.

Jennifer Lopez opened up about her relationship with Ben Affleck while on Live with Mark and Kelly.

Jennifer Lopez said Thursday she would "walk out" if she found out Ben Affleck was having an affair.  The "Shotgun Wedding" star, who married the "Air" actor last summer, was asked the hypothetical on "The View" while the co-hosts were discussing "Vanderpump Rules" star Tom Sandoval’s alleged affair with Raquel Leviss when he was with Ariana Madix.  "I think I'd just walk out. Just walk out," Lopez said.

Listen up, Ben Affleck! Jennifer Lopez won’t be putting up with any BS if she ever discovered you cheated with any of her besties — like Tom Sandoval!

Jennifer Lopez felt “very empowered” by her latest role in “The Mother”.

Jennifer Lopez gives her kids space, even when it’s hard.

Jennifer Lopez is hard at work promoting her new Netflix movie!

Jennifer Lopez is weighing in on the drama surrounding Vanderpump Rules!

Jennifer Lopez showed some love for animal prints this week in New York. The actress was spotted on her way to “Live with Kelly and Ryan,” wearing cheetah prints in all elements of her outfit. Why Ben Affleck wasn’t at the Met Gala with Jennifer LopezJennifer Lopez praises Ben Affleck’s role as a fatherJlo’s mom ‘knew’ her daughter and Ben Affleck would reuniteLopez was photographed on the outside of the show, wearing a long sleeve cheetah top and matching pants.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s love story has the world captivated. After calling off their wedding in September 2003 and splitting in January 2004, they remained one of the most iconic Hollywood couples. When they got back together in May 2021, Bennifer 2.0 was here to stay.

never gonna give up.Jennifer Lopez’s mom revealed Wednesday that she always knew her daughter would find her way back to Ben Affleck, 50.While Lopez, 53, was interviewed by “Today” host Hoda Kotb, 58, Guadalupe Rodríguez sat off-camera with Savannah Guthrie for a private conversation they ended up sharing with the world. “When you talked about Ben, what did you tell me?” Guthrie, 51, prompted Rodríguez, 77, to repeat on-air.“I knew that you would always get back together,” Rodríguez claimed, “because I prayed for 20 years that you would.”“OK,” Lopez rolled her eyes, insinuating that this wasn’t the first time she’s heard that from her mother.“Let’s keep going,” Lopez said, urging Kotb to shift the conversation back to business.