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It must be quite strange to be as famous as Jennifer Lopez<\/a>. <\/p>\n She is in the echelon of celebrities in which there is basically not really a person on the planet who doesn\u2019t know who you are, or has at least heard of you, and that must come with issues on a daily basis, I\u2019d imagine. It\u2019s probably not a surprise, then, that she tends only to fraternise with other famous people.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s all well and good, until she then tries to call in a favour and get as many of them as possible to\u00a0appear in a movie she\u2019s creating<\/a>, at which point you start to get some rather awkward-sounding \u201cUm, sorry, I can\u2019t, I\u2019m busy\u201d messages back.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n That\u2019s essentially what happened when J-Lo decided to make a film back in 2024 called This Is Me\u2026Now: A Love Story, which, as you might imagine, was not some kind of searing and dramatic expose of government corruption but in fact a bizarre, overly-financed, semi-fictional accompaniment to her ninth album with a layer of special effects and romance laid on top. <\/p>\n Now to be fair to her, when she phoned as many of her famous mates as possible to appear in it, a lot of them answered the call and followed through, meaning that making an appearance in the finished article were luminaries including Jane Fonda, Sofia Vergara and Ben Affleck, the last of which you would imagine would have been in a world of pain had he tried to wriggle out of it. <\/p>\n But a considerable number of celebrities were \u201cunavailable\u201d, industry code for \u201cI don\u2019t want to do that in case it flops and makes me look bad\u201d, including Taylor Swift, Jason Momoa, James Corden (lucky escape), Ariana Grande and Snoop Dogg. <\/p>\n Again, to give J-Lo some credit, she was quite magnanimous about the negative RSVPs<\/a> and the whole \u201cI\u2019m not available\u201d spiel, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t want to force anyone who doesn\u2019t think this is going to be fun to do this. Nobody wants to say \u2018no\u2019 to me, I get that, but when an actor doesn\u2019t like a script or is worried about it. That\u2019s what they say. I know that. I\u2019ve done it.\u201d<\/p>\n Possibly the biggest ouch she had was the fact that in dreaming up this vanity project, she had agreed funding with a major studio, who then pulled out, leaving her with a $20million bill that she had to find herself, presumably down the back of a massive diamante-studded sofa. As if the film weren\u2019t enough, J-Lo then also made a documentary about the making of the movie, in which she said the studio didn\u2019t understand the direction she took and didn\u2019t have confidence in it, which is understandable.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the end, reviews of This Is Me\u2026Now: A Love Story weren\u2019t anywhere near as bad as you might imagine, and the trailer alone is quite something.<\/p>\n Lopez has mostly focused on a return to music over the last five years or so, with the occasional movie thrown in, usually in conjunction with a major streaming site like Netflix or Prime Video. She does have a pretty big comedy coming up later this year, however, in the form of\u00a0Office Romance, starring opposite\u00a0Ted Lasso\u2019s\u00a0Brett Goldstein,<\/a>\u00a0who co-wrote the script with former SNL writer Joe Kelly.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n