J.Lo: “I Should Have Gotten an Oscar for El Cantante“
So Yeni gave Latina magazine quite a revealing interview, and among other things, Mrs. Bonescito let out her disappointment about not being nominated for her role in El Cantante.
“I feel like I had that [Oscar worthy role] in El Cantante, but I don’t even think the academy members saw it. I feel like it’s their responsibility to do that, to see everything that’s out there, everything that could be great.” Well, it is a little bit frustrating. It was funny; when the Oscars were on, I had just given birth on the 22nd, and the Oscars, I think, were a day or two later.”
“I was sitting there with my twins–I couldn’t have been happier–but I was like, ‘How dope would it have been if I would’ve won the Oscar and been here in my hospital bed accepting the award?’ ‘Thank you so much! I just want to thank the academy!’ But we joked about it. It’s all good. Things will happen when they’re supposed to happen. I have the utmost faith and no doubt that it will one day, when and if it’s supposed to. You can’t get all crazy twisted over it.”
Yeah, you sure can’t!
I bet those Oscar voters must have read reviews like this one from the highly-regarded The Guardian UK:
“There is something entirely dead about Lopez’s performance. No matter how superficially lively she makes it, she is always simply mouthing the lines. Never mind Jenny from the block. Jenny is the block. Of wood.”
But El Cantante did have an acclaimed soundtrack and did gross about $7.4 million dollars. Maybe her new movie The Back-Up Plan will get her some award, and hopefully not a Razzy trophy.
iris
Comment made on January 6, 2010 at 1:02 pmeveryone who has seen this movie either hated it or did not finish watching it…Jlo really overestimated herself here.
HISSIP
Comment made on January 6, 2010 at 1:25 pmIf El Cantante wasn’t the movie to have gotten her the Oscar, there just might be one in the future!!!!
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Comment made on March 22, 2010 at 12:15 pmyes she should have