{"id":23214,"date":"2022-06-09T06:37:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23214"},"modified":"2022-06-09T06:37:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T06:37:18","slug":"video-jennifer-lopez-and-halftime-kick-off-tribeca-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/09\/video-jennifer-lopez-and-halftime-kick-off-tribeca-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Jennifer Lopez and \u2018Halftime\u2019 kick off Tribeca Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">The\u00a0Jennifer Lopez documentary \u201cHalftime\u201d\u00a0kicked off the 21st Tribeca Festival, launching the annual New York event with an intimate behind-the-scenes portrait of the singer-actor filmed during the tumultuous year she turned 50,\u00a0co-headlined the Super Bowl\u00a0and narrowly missed out on an Oscar nomination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">The premiere at the United Palace in Washington Heights served as an appropriate opener for the Tribeca Festival, which has jettisoned \u201cFilm\u201d from its name to better reflect the wide array of concerts, talks, television premieres, podcasts and virtual reality exhibits that increasingly fill its busy live-event schedule alongside movies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Halftime | Jennifer Lopez | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rpMZOZTqcQw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">This year\u2019s festival, running through June 19, will trot out plenty of big personalities, from Al Sharpton (the subject of the festival-closing documentary \u201cLoudmouth\u201d) to Taylor Swift (who will sit for a talk with filmmaker Mike Mills about the 2021 short film she directed), to fill some of Manhattan\u2019s biggest theaters. There will be reunions (Michael Mann\u2019s \u201cHeat\u201d) and directorial debuts (among them Ray Romano \u201cSomewhere in Queens\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">But after a scuttled 2020 edition and a largely outdoor 2021 festival timed to\u00a0New York\u2019s initial pandemic cultural reopening, Tribeca has turned to Bronx native Lopez, whose hits include \u201cLet\u2019s Get Loud,\u201d to bring Tribeca all the way back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Component-hubPeekEmbed-0-2-325 HubPeek noBorderBottom-0-2-113 compressedEmbed-0-2-114\">\n<div class=\"hubPeekContainerWide-0-2-329\" data-key=\"feed-card-hub-peak\">\n<div class=\"columnLayout-0-2-335\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">\u201cHalftime\u201d director Amanda Micheli hopes the documentary, premiering June 14 on Netflix, presents a new \u2014 sometimes vulnerable, often resilient \u2014 side to its famous subject.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">\u201cI had the impression of her as a wildly successful, glamorous person,\u201d Micheli said in an interview. \u201cThen when I met her I was like, \u2019This woman is a world-class athlete. She\u2019s a jock. The way she carries herself and the way she works. She\u2019s an artist but I really connected with that side of her. She\u2019s a fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">\u201cHalftime\u201d bears some of the usual hallmarks of artist-developed documentaries. It\u2019s designed to be an affectionate portrait. But \u201cHalftime\u201d distinguishes itself by capturing the challenges that even superstars face in an entertainment industry not always welcoming to Latina performers. In one early clip, a journalist asks Lopez about her backside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">\u201cJennifer always was trying to prove herself,\u201d says Micheli. \u201cI don\u2019t want to minimized it to: Oh, she\u2019s a woman of color and women of color have a harder time. But it\u2019s true, especially in the entertainment industry. You look back at those press junkets for \u2018Selena,\u2019 and people on the red carpet are like, \u2018Can you speak a little Spanish for us, honey?\u2019 It was a novelty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">For the documentary, Micheli assembled footage shot in late 2019 and early 2020 by Lopez\u2019s team and others, as well as some 1,000 hours of archival footage. In the time span covered in the film, Lopez was starring in and\u00a0producing the acclaimed drama \u201cHustlers,\u201d\u00a0winning her Oscar buzz, and she was tapped to perform in the 2020 Super Bowl with Shakira.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">The two events were high points for Lopez yet still reflected some of the struggles she faced along the way. Splitting the Super Bowl stage is sometimes seen in \u201cHalftime\u201d as a matter of frustration. Lopez calls having two headliners \u201cthe worst idea ever,\u201d not because she isn\u2019t enthusiastic about the collaboration with Shakira but because of the time pressures of fitting in each others\u2019 songs. Lopez also fights to have the plight of immigrant children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border incorporated into the performance. Lopez initially sought a cameo by Bruce Springsteen to sing \u201cBorn in the U.S.A.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">At the same time, Lopez was unexpectedly looked over for her first Academy Award nomination for \u201cHustlers,\u201d a female-led production about making your way in a male-controlled industry. The weight of those expectations is seen in scenes like one following the Golden Globes, where Lopez says \u201cI let everyone down\u201d after not winning. Missing on an Oscar nomination, she says, was disappointing because so many had suggested it was inevitable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">\u201cThe truth is I really thought I was going to be nominated,\u201d Lopez says in the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t want it to seem like the world\u2019s smallest violin,\u201d says Micheli. \u201cBut it\u2019s compelling to see someone really striving and wanting something so badly. Stars are not supposed to admit they want an Academy Award. But she admits in the film that she got her hopes up, she wanted that recognition. Who wouldn\u2019t?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">Micheli thinks that before making \u201cHalftime,\u201d Lopez hadn\u2019t really processed some elements of her life depicted in the documentary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">\u201cThe way the press treated her looking back is kind of crazy,\u201d she says. \u201cWatch the clip of people talking about her ass. I didn\u2019t understand until I met her how that affected her, that she really felt like people were questioning her talent and still do sometimes. I think she really felt like she was fighting to prove herself always and had to work twice as hard as anyone else to prove herself. I think a lot of marginalized people feel that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">When Micheli first showed Lopez a 12-minute sample reel of just behind-the-scenes footage, she nervously awaited Lopez\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-327 Component-p-0-2-317\">\u201cShe looked at me and said, \u2018My body\u2019s shaking. I haven\u2019t seen myself like this before,\u2019\u201d says Micheli. \u201cIn that moment, seeing herself, she had a realization of what that fighting was for.\u201d<br \/>\nAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Jennifer Lopez documentary \u201cHalftime\u201d\u00a0kicked off the 21st Tribeca Festival, launching the annual New York event with an intimate behind-the-scenes portrait of the singer-actor filmed during the tumultuous year she turned 50,\u00a0co-headlined the Super Bowl\u00a0and narrowly missed out on an Oscar nomination. 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