Jennifer Lopez and Simu Liu need to speak about their new movie, Atlas. Nothing else!
During a press occasion in Mexico City Wednesday, Liu and Lopez rapidly shut down a reporter attempting to finagle a response about rumors that Lopez and Ben Affleck had cut up.
“Is your divorce from Ben Affleck real?” requested the reporter in a seemingly joking voice as Lopez let loose a chuckle.
Liu rapidly interrupted. “OK, we’re not doing that,” interjected Liu earlier than wrapping the convention, which was not meant to be a Q&A.
“You know better than that,” added Lopez.
“Don’t come in here with that energy,” stated Liu.
The clip then cuts to Liu praising Lopez for her work on Atlas as a producer. “The reason why I am here and why Sterling [K. Brown] was in this beautiful movie is because Jen cares,” Liu stated. “And Jen cares about things like representation and diversity, and she’s a boss.”
The reporter’s query about her marriage to Affleck got here days after reviews in a number of superstar magazines, together with People, that the couple’s marriage is “not in the best place.” As rumors swirled, the duo have been captured by paparazzi in Santa Monica earlier this week.
The rumors of her cut up from Affleck arrived simply three months after Lopez launched her album (and its companion movie) This Is Me… Now, impressed by her rekindling romance with Affleck. The two tied the knot final 12 months.
“I would describe this as my most honest, free, empowering, [and] loving era,” Lopez told Rolling Stone in February. “There is such a thing as true love, and some things do last forever, and maybe it doesn’t have a perfectly straight road, but it’s real. Don’t give up on that because a life lived is really about love and the people that we share our life with.”
In Atlas, Lopez performs a lady on a mission to cease a rogue synthetic intelligence often called Harlan (performed by Liu), who’s threatening life in a world with flying automobiles and robots. The Brad Peyton-directed sci-fi thriller premieres on Netflix May 24. In addition to Lopez and Liu, the movie stars Brown, Gregory James Cohan, Abraham Popoola, Lana Parrilla, and Mark Strong.
From Rolling Stone US.