The Official Poster for Netflix Documentary ' Halftime" / Credit: Netflix
“I’ve been battling to be heard, to be seen, to be taken seriously.”
I have always been fascinated with the ever radiant Jennifer Lopez whose on-screen glamour never dims, whether she’s playing a hardworking wedding planner, a documentarian or a relentlessly confident exotic dancer. Jennifer Lopez is always powerful and posed, more goddess than a woman. In the superstar’s documentary, Halftime, which premiered on June 14, she flips those expectations, taking viewers behind the curtain of mega-celebrity as she juggles her 2019 Super Bowl halftime show and the awards race for Hustlers. This is your chance to meet the real-life J.Lo.
The vulnerable person behind the fearless stripper heel strut and megawatt red carpet smiles — and she has a lot to say (as does one of her very famous love interests).
“I’m trying to give you something with substance,”
Lopez says into a phone in the trailer, paired with shots of her stunning Super Bowl performance.
“Not just us out there shaking our fucking asses. I want something real!”
This is precisely the kind of moment the public didn’t see in the lead-up to the seemingly smooth show.
Halftime performance looks by Shakira and Jennifer Lopez
To take in all the majesty of Lopez’s tireless work as an entertainer, businesswoman and mother.
Without giving you any spoilers, here is a celebration of the spectacular look over the years that cemented her as an icon:
Jennifer Lopez wearing the infamous jungle dress by Versace / Credit: 1dMag
On the cusp of a new millennium — twenty years ago to be precise — Jennifer Lopez wore a navel-plunging tropical-print gown from Versace’s SS00 collection at the Grammy’s and broke the baby internet.
“At the time, it was the most popular search query we had ever seen,”
wrote then-executive chairman of Google Eric Schmidt in 2015.
“But we had no surefire way of getting users exactly what they wanted: JLo wearing that dress.”
The result was the invention of Google Image Search. It was created because of that very fashion moment. Two decades later, it broke the internet again. Jennifer Lopez closed the Versace show last night in that very dress and, as if it were an oracular symbol of the culture that would come — of fashion becoming entertainment, of the red carpet becoming a catwalk — the phone-wielding audience projected it onto timelines and digital platforms everywhere, the image going viral once again. This time, it was in seconds. The pace of communication may have supersonically sped up, but the sentiment remained the same.
Halftime is now streaming now on Netflix.
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