Jennifer Lopez revealed the reason she featured ‘The Way We Were’ in her new musical film, ‘This Is Me … Now’
Jennifer Lopez was sending a romantic message to husband Ben Affleck when she featured The Way We Were in her new film, This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.
“That’s one of mine and Ben’s favorite movies,” Lopez, 54, told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Friday, February 16. “We watched it 20 years ago. I actually showed it to him when we were together last time.”
In the narrative-driven musical, Lopez watches the 1973 tearjerker starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, repeating the lines back to herself as she cries over a past heartbreak. Lopez told EW that incorporating the emotional moment was “special” to her — plus she has a lot of love for the movie’s lead actress.
“I’m a huge Barbra Streisand fan,” she said. “My mother really imparted [this movie] to me. That was her favorite romantic movie growing up. So it has a lot of significance for me.”
This Is Me … Now: A Love Story, which premiered on Prime Video Friday, is a fictionalized portrayal of Lopez’s life over the past 20 years in tandem with her new album of the same name.
