Jennifer Lopez has been doing press to promote her new musical companion film This Is Me… Now and she revealed that Khloe Kardashian had turned down a role.
Lopez, 54, has been doing press for her musical film, a companion to the album of the same name, both due out on February 16.
She revealed that there were a few Hollywood celebrities she approached for roles, and a few turned her down, including Khloe Kardashian.
There is no indication what role the 39-year-old played in the film, and Khloe has not publicly spoken or posted about the role at this time.
The news also comes as Lopez recently revealed that she had invested her own money to finance the film with this new money Variety piece that revealed she had earned more than $20 million.
Jennifer Lopez has been doing press to promote her new musical companion film This Is Me… Now and she revealed Khloe Kardashian had turned down a role
She revealed that there were a few Hollywood celebrities she approached for roles, and a few turned her down, including Khloe Kardashian.
As for Kardashian and others turning down roles for the film, she admitted that many are reluctant to put themselves in the spotlight, even someone from perhaps the most photographed family in the world: the Kardashians.
‘People are afraid to put themselves out there. I understand. It took a long time. I’m afraid. But I don’t pretend to be afraid; that’s the secret to my whole damn career,” Lopez admitted.
If Khloe had a role in the film, it would have been her first acting role in almost a decade, although Khloe played all of her roles as herself.
She guest-starred as herself in a 2011 episode of NBC’s short-lived Law & Order: Los Angeles, a 2013 episode of BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood, and a 2014 episode of USA Network’s Royal Pains.
She also appeared in a 2014 short film Hpnotiq Sparkle and in the 2019 miniseries For SKIMS for her sister Kim Kardashian’s shapewear line.
Lopez also revealed that she invested $20 million of her own money to finance not only the album This Is Me… Now, but also the film This Is Me… Now: A Love Story and finally the documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told. .
Both the album and its musical companion film will be released on February 16, while the documentary arrives on February 27.
Lopez recorded the album in a home theater, invited musicians to her home and showed them the love letters Affleck wrote her, which he called “The Greatest Love Story Never Told.”
As for Kardashian and others turning down roles for the film, she admitted that many are reluctant to put themselves in the spotlight, even someone from perhaps the most photographed family in the world: The Kardashians
If Khloe had a role in the film, it would have been her first acting role in almost a decade, although Khloe played herself in all of her roles.
She guest-starred as herself in a 2011 episode of NBC’s short-lived Law & Order: Los Angeles, a 2013 episode of BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood, and a 2014 episode of USA Network’s Royal Pains.
Lopez also revealed that she invested $20 million of her own money to finance not only the album This Is Me… Now, but also the film This Is Me… Now: A Love Story and finally the documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
Lopez’s longtime producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas recalled when she told JLo she was spending $20 million of her reported net worth of $400 million on the project.
“I’m in New York and she says, ‘I think I’m going to finance this myself.’ I was like, ‘Wait, what?’” Goldsmith-Thomas recalls.
‘I don’t even know what it is. What are you doing?’ I was concerned. “Why are you sharing your story? It’s too personal. Stop it.” It made me uncomfortable,” she admitted.
Goldsmith-Thomas admitted she never felt completely comfortable with the project, adding that she was “petrified all the time,” but now she understands.
‘I was afraid that she was telling her journey and it would seem like she was saying, “Here is my journey from Ben to Ben.” And that’s not what it’s about. It’s about “This is what I’ve been through for the last 20 years, and I kept hitting the same wall and blaming the wall until I started looking at myself,” Goldsmith-Thomas said.
