Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are just like us. They too are social distancing and staying at home to slow the spread of coronavirus. Naturally, they have a lot more time on their hands, and they’re spending some of it filming iconic dancing videos with their kids (Emme, Max, Natasha, and Ella).
Case in point: this new clip Rodriguez posted on Instagram of him, J. Lo, and the whole fam. “Worst to best ?❤️,” he wrote in the caption. He kicks things off and J.Lo, of course, is the encore. Watch the video for yourself, below:
Talent definitely seems to run in this family. Emme, whose father is superstar Marc Anthony, performed on stage with her mom during this year’s Super Bowl and blew everyone away with her voice and poise. Those pipes!
Earlier last week, Lopez posted a funny video of her son, Max, delivering drinks. “We can’t go out to any restaurants or anything but the service and entertainment here is pretty good…? #StaySafe #familytime,” she wrote on Instagram.
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez have not said anything yet about their upcoming wedding. (The couple announced their engagement in March 2019. They’ve been dating publicly since February 2017.) According to reports, they were set to wed this summer. But given the uncertainty of what the next few months will look like in the United States, it’s unclear at this point if the nuptials will be postponed
In the meantime, we are very much looking forward to more dance videos from this fun-loving family. Maybe J.Lo can post some tutorials of the dances from some of her most famous videos, like “Jenny From the Block.” #JLoChallenge, anyone? With all this time at home, I should be able to master at least one combination of choreography, right? Right?!
LW: I thought that was so moving and brilliant, and I loved Taylor’s response to her, too. I thought what Nikki Glaser was saying made so much sense. She said, “This is Psych 101; I was projecting because I was struggling with an eating disorder at the time.” I thought that was a really brave and incredible thing to say. That made me think about if there’s ever been a time where I’ve made fun of someone, I was probably projecting my own insecurities on them as well, you know? We did notice when we were looking at that archival material that a lot of that stuff was coming from other women.
God, I almost tear up like thinking about some of the notes I’ve gotten from teenagers about how they look in the mirror and they hate their body and they hate the way they look. But now that they’ve seen that Taylor has struggled with some of these same things too, and she’s gotten through it and she’s stronger and happier as a result, and that inspires them to keep going. It’s just so moving.
What was the most unexpected thing about filming Taylor?
LW: The contrast between the extraordinary elements of her life and the ordinary elements. [There are] the very big and massive, spectacular, glittery times, but then these very mundane, normal moments. I really love the scene where she’s eating a burrito. I know people have really responded to this scene, and I think it’s because it’s just her putting a chip in a burrito for crunch. There’s something so great about when you get to a point when you’re filming someone and they can relax enough to eat lunch and shoot the shit with their friends in front of you.
When you can film the boring stuff and you have that comfort level with someone, then you know you have access. You know, at that point. It’s weird, but that was like a breakthrough moment for me because it feels like the camera isn’t there.
When did that moment come? How long had you been filming her before you felt like you broke through to that point?
LW: At least a few months. But I will say that the first interview we did was the first interview she’d done in three years, and we did that audio-only. I think that was the moment when we really got to know each other and when I really started to see what the story of the film was, that first audio-only interview. It was just me and her, in a room for hours with a recorder.
Did any of that audio make it into the film?
LW: Oh yeah. When she talks about the sexual assault trial, that’s from the audio interview.
Did Swift see the film at different points in the editing process, or did she not see it until it was finished?
LW: I wanted her to see it before it was finished because there’s stuff in here—like her talking about an eating disorder—that I think is really important for her to be comfortable with that kind of stuff going out into the world. It was great because when we showed her the first cut, she loved it immediately. She was never like, ‘No, I don’t want to go there.’ There was no off-limits area other than anything that would compromise her security.
Taylor’s feedback was great. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh no, we can’t do this.’ It was feedback from another storyteller. She’s such an extraordinary storyteller. So it made sense to me.
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Before I let you go, I have to ask: When InStyle asked you about a potential engagement ring you said, “I’ll have to watch the scene again.” Did you watch the scene again?
LW: I was confused by what that person was talking about. They said it’s the scene in the car where she was talking about her eating disorder, that there were flash frames of a ring. And I was like, I don’t remember that. There was definitely nothing like that there. I know that people on the internet are freaking out about this later scene where she’s wearing a ring. I don’t know anything about…I think she just wears a lot of rings. I think people are overreacting to it a little bit. As far as I could see she’s constantly just wearing lots of rings! [Laughs]
If you’ve ever dreamed of living like a member of the British royal family, now’s your chance.
Fans of both the real-life royals and the fictionalized ones on The Crown can now rent the massive home known as The Earl of Fitzroy—exterior shots of the residence were featured in the second season of the Netflix show. But, those who rent it won’t just be gaining access to the home; they’ll also gain access to an entire royal lifestyle too. But, fair warning, that lifestyle will cost you.
“We’ve been getting a bit overexcited about the release of The Crown’s third season,” Plum Guide, the rental company in charge of the listing, wrote in a blog post. “So, to celebrate we’ve created the ultimate experience of frivolity and excess worth over £50,000 in one of London’s most splendid homes.”
That “frivolity” includes access to a personal butler, a delicious banquet dinner, as well as a royal-worthy horse and carriage ride through Fitzrovia Square. Those who also shell out almost $65,000 for the luxury accommodation will also have afternoon tea surrounded by several regal corgis. And they won’t have to worry about picking up the wrong spoon as guests will also receive training (just like Meghan Markle reportedly did) from one of the world’s leading etiquette instructors, William Hanson. Guests will also reportedly be greeted with a box full of goodies from all the Queen’s favorite brands.
But if you want in on this action you better act fast since The Royal Experience at Earl of Fitzroy will only available in December. (Guests also must commit to a seven-night stay.) Hopefully, the house comes with its own Netflix account so guests can stream season three of The Crown while getting waited on hand and foot too.
“I have experienced mental illness firsthand, and I’ve seen what it can do to the people around [the sufferers] as well,” the actor who plays Sansa on GoT tells Marie Claire. “[In my teen years] my metabolism suddenly decided to fall to the depths of the ocean and I started to get spotty and gain weight, and all of this was happening to me on camera.”
Unfortunately, people weren’t so kind to Turner as she was growing up in the public eye. In a podcast from two weeks ago, she talked about the comments she would receive from fans about her appearance. “People used to say, ‘Damn, Sansa gained 10 pounds,’ or ‘Damn, Sansa needs to lose 10 pounds,’ or ‘Sansa got fat,’” Turner revealed. “It was just a lot of weight comments, or I would have spotty skin because I was a teenager and that’s normal, and I used to get a lot of comments about my skin and my weight and how I wasn’t a good actress.”
Turner says therapy helped her deal with this pressure. “Everyone needs a therapist, especially when people are constantly telling you you’re not good enough and you don’t look good enough,” she also told the magazine. “I think it’s necessary to have someone to talk to, and to help you through that.”
Sophie Turner has often been transparent about her mental health journey. Just last month she told Dr. Phil on his podcast that she experienced depression in her late teen years—in part, she thinks, because she was living at home filming GoT while her friends were at college. She frequently turned to her onscreen sister, Maisie Williams, for support but admitted at one point their friendship had a “destructive side” because they spent time only together.
“Maisie and I used to [stay inside] together,” she told Dr. Phil. “I think being friends with each other was quite destructive because we were going through the same thing. We used to get home from set, go to a Tesco across the road, a little supermarket, and just buy food. We’d go back to our room and eat it in bed. We never socialized for a couple of years. We didn’t socialize with anyone but ourselves.”
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Jennifer Lopez‘s new movie Hustlers since the full cast was announced. The comedy, based on this 2015 New York magazine article, centers on a group of strippers who scam their rich, sleazy male clients out of thousands of dollars. That concept and Lopez alone are enough to hook me, but check out who else is in the film: Constance Wu, Lili Reinhart, Cardi B, Julia Stiles, KeKe Palmer, and Trace Lysette. It’s literally a who’s-who of stars.
And it looks like filming has already started. Lopez and Wu were photographed on the set of Hustlers Thursday, March 28 sporting incredible looks. The context of what they filmed is unknown, but I’m already deeply invested. Take a look at the photos, below, and you’ll see exactly what I mean.
At some point in Hustlers, Lopez literally feeds Wu a smoothie. Unless, of course, this just happened off-camera. Hydration is important!
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But I’m going with this being a plot point. There’s no way Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu drink shopping mall smoothies. They only drink diamond-infused water or some other rich-person beverage (kidding).
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Can we talk about this dog, though? He or she is absolutely a part of the strippers’ scam.
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See the look on the dog’s face? That’s the look of a skilled, savvy scammer. J.Lo doesn’t have to do anything except sit back and chew her gum. The dog has it covered.
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Seriously, I need to be this dog.
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Actually, wait, never mind. Now J.Lo is pissed at the dog. I don’t want to be this dog.
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What are Wu and Lopez glaring at here? The dog? What did that dog do?!
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Wu’s dress here is absolutely fire.
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As is Lopez’s fuzzy purple coat. Please bury me in this exact outfit.
Yup, this movie is about to be so iconic. Here’s live footage of Jennifer Lopez accepting all the money is my bank account and celebrating with a smoothie.
The hair sagas of the women of Westeros continue as Sophie Turner just revealed that she wasn’t allowed to wash her hair while filming certain seasons of Game of Thrones. And all this after the natural blond spent years alternating colors between her born-with-it shade and Sansa Stark’s eye-catching red.
During an interview with InStyle, the actress spilled her “dirty” secret. After being asked about how the men on the show were famously forbidden from washing their hair so it looked more in-character, Turner revealed this fun fact: “For the first few seasons I was allowed to wash my hair because I was an aristocratic young girl, but towards season 5 they started asking me to not wash my hair and it was really disgusting. Now I wear I wig so I can wash my hair whenever I want, which is nice. But yes, for a couple of years I was living with pretty greasy hair.”
That sounds less than fun, but honestly it’s not the worst thing that’s happened to her poor head. “A few years ago I was trying to go back from red to blond, and it destroyed my hair to the point that I had to use a wig for Game of Thrones,” she toldGlamour in November. “They wouldn’t let me dye it back red or my hair would’ve fallen out.”
Apparently, being on the biggest show is the world is a real detriment to the beauty routines of its female stars including Turner’s co-star Emilia Clarke, who chopped her hair short after damage inflicted while filming. “My hair was, like, dying!” she said last fall after chopping it into a pixie. “So I’ve cut it a little bit shorter. It’s almost the shortest it’s been. I’m honestly trying to grow out the blond, because it’s just killed my hair, and I miss having nice hair.”
Thankfully they’ve have adapted quite nicely—courtesy of some serious masking tips. “The biggest thing [to keeping my hair healthy] is WellaPlex,” Turner told Glamour. “It’s a hair mask that you put on, leave in for 10 minutes, and then wash out. It repairs the bonds in your hair so that it doesn’t just feel strong and healthy, it actually is stronger and healthier afterward. I use it every week, because with the job I have, it’s a lot of dyeing, straightening, curling, and heat damage. I’ll put in on after showering, watch a bit of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and then I go back and wash it off.”
