Jennifer Lopez is about to get nominated for an Oscar for the musical drama, ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’. This is going to be the very first Oscar nomination of Lopez, which is turning the internet upside down. However, previously, the singer and actor was about to get an Oscar nomination but couldn’t get it as she turned down the project. It is a decision that the artist still regrets.
From her conversation with Howard Stern on the SiriusXM show, the artist said that she turned down the offer. In 2002, she was offered the film ‘Unfaithful. It was directed by Adrian Lyne. In the interview, when she was asked whether she had ever rejected any project or not, she immediately said yes. Then she stated that she refused to do ‘Unfaithful’, which is one of her biggest mistakes.
After her rejection, the movie was offered to Diane Lane, whom she accepted. The artist stated ‘Adrian Lyne offered me Unfaithful. [I turned it down because] the script wasn’t good. And then he made it great! And Diane Lane got nominated for the Oscar! However, later Diane Lyne was nominated for the Best Actress category at the Oscars. She was nominated with other actresses like Julianne Moore for ‘Far From Heaven’, Nicole Kidman for ‘The Hours’, Salma Hayek for ‘Frida’, and Renee Zellweger for ‘Chicago’. At the end, Nicole Kidman was the winner for the Best Actress category.
Whether Lopez would win it or not, being nominated for an Oscar is already an achievement. And that is why she regrets it even now after decades. If she had agreed to do the film, she would have already gotten an Oscar nomination in her career, which could have been an achievement for the singer and actor.
Lopez even said, ‘It’s funny. It haunts me. It haunts me a little bit. It’s like the one that I turned down that it was just like, ‘Why did you turn down working with Adrian Lyne? What were you thinking?’ I didn’t even know what the hell was going on in my mind at the time. Who knows what was going on with me at the time’. From her statement, it can be understood that she is not very pleased about this particular decision in her career.
For every artist, Oscar is considered the biggest achievement. If one can win an Oscar, it can seem like they have gotten the biggest recognition in their life. However, all these have happened a long time ago. Now, Lopez is on the verge of getting her very first Oscar nomination, which is making her fans more excited. The drama, ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ starring Diego Luna, who is a political prisoner. It has been set during the time of Argentina’s civil war during the 1980s. He is imprisoned with another man that has been done by Tonatiuh. It is an interesting drama directed by Bill Condon. This director has given various excellent movies before, like ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 1’. However, his latest creations are generating much sensation that have been released on 10th October.