The Mother, a film starring Jennifer Lopez, helped her “overanalyse” her relationship with her own children. The 53-year-old singer-and-actress, who has 15-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex-husband Marc Anthony, portrays an assassin who emerges from hiding to protect her estranged daughter in the Netflix movie and she discovered that working on the movie benefited her own personal life because it made her reevaluate her bond with her children and how it changes as they grow older.
In a recent interaction, Jennifer told Mexico’s Vogue magazine that it certainly helped her overanalyze it, because when you’re living your life, you’re not really analysing it, however, when you’re working on a character, you dive deeper into what they’re going through.
She added, “It made me think what does she need to do to move from a mother-baby relationship to her adult relationship? Are you going to hide things from me or are we going to be open and forthcoming? All those questions were coming up in my mind.”
The ‘Hustlers’ star, who got hitched to Ben Affleck also discussed how she felt stereotyped as an actress in her early days.
She said, “At first I think I only got parts where I had an accent. And then it gradually changed because I stood my ground. She added, “I just wanted to play ‘a girl’, you know, I didn’t even want to know what her last name or her first name was.”
She reflected: “Normally you would have seen figures like Meg Ryan, Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts in that role. But once that happened, once I was given that role, I think things really changed.”