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Jennifer Lopez answered questions about the most impactful movies in her life on Brett Goldstein’s podcast Films to Be Buried With
Asked for “the worst film you’ve ever seen,” Lopez named 2020’s Nomadland, saying, “It’s just not for me”
“A slow-moving thing about grief,” the Office Romance star explained, is “not why I go to the movies”
Jennifer Lopez knows there is an audience for the Frances McDormand-starring Nomadland. She’s just not part of that audience.
When her Office Romance costar Brett Goldstein asked on his podcast Films to Be Buried With about her most formative films, Lopez, 56, elected not to skip his most notorious question: “What’s the worst film you’ve ever seen?”
“It’s hard to say ‘worst’ because it’s a beautiful film,” said the actress-musician, naming the Chloé Zhao-directed Nomadland, which at the 2021 Academy Awards ceremony won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress for McDormand. At Goldstein’s prompting, Lopez made it clear the indie drama is her “worst type of film.”
Jennifer Lopez at the UK premiere of ‘Office Romance’ on June 3
Credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage
“You can tell from my taste in movies what I think about this,” said Lopez with a laugh, having listed 1961’s West Side Story, 1983’s Flashdance and other musicals and comedies among her favorites.
“It’s not why I go to the movies,” the Grammy winner said of Nomadland. “I like musicals. I like romantic comedies. I like thrillers, you know? And it’s a slow-moving thing about grief and there’s no escapism to it. And I do like some movies like that… but that one I just didn’t.”
Based on Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, Zhao’s movie stars McDormand, 68, as Fern, a widow living and traveling in her van across the U.S. amid the 2007–2009 recession.
Calling McDormand “amazing,” Lopez said “there’s no surprise” that the movie won the actress her third and fourth Oscars. “She deserves all the Oscars. But I just didn’t enjoy it. It’s just not for me.”
Frances McDormand in ‘Nomadland’
Credit: Searchlight Pictures
She added, “It’s just a taste thing. And I know we need movies about grief! I understand.” Goldstein responded, “You just don’t wanna watch them.”
“I just don’t wanna watch them,” Lopez agreed. “The same way I don’t wanna watch horror films.”
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Earlier in their conversation, the Kiss of the Spider Woman star admitted that Dave Franco and Alison Brie’s thought-provoking 2025 horror film Together was an exception to her rule about not liking horror movies. “I would do one,” she said, “because I think the horror genre has kind of evolved.”
Lopez and Goldstein, 45, costar in the Ol Parker-directed Office Romance, co-written by Goldstein and Joe Kelly. The rom-com is on Netflix as of June 6.
Episodes of Films to Be Buried With air weekly on Wednesdays.
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