Covering the Coverage: Glamour Interviews J. Lo, J. Lo Plugs “El Cantante”

The cover story for August’s issue of Glamour features a Jennifer Lopez interview that reads like a 5-page plug of the movie she’s produced, starred in, and promoted for some time now–a salsa-heavy biopic about music legend Hector “La Voz” Lavoe (played by Marc Anthony, of course) called “El Cantante”. As a courtesy to the public, we plucked through the endless fluff to bring you some highlights. For starters, the guest reporter draws a clever comparison between the film’s music and its romantic tension:

The music in the movie is electrifying, and the volatile on-screen relationship between Lavoe (played by Lopez’s real-life husband) and his wife, Puchi (played by Lopez), is equally explosive. No surprise: Lopez is, after all, a woman who knows a thing or two about failed relationships, yet she still calls herself a romantic.

The conclusion to this intro looks like the all-time understatement of J. Lo’s love life–’knowing a thing or two about failed relationships’ kinda sugarcoats dating a guy known as Puff Daddy, marrying and divorcing your back-up dancer, then ditching an engagement to the actor who played the other guy in “Good Will Hunting”. J. Lo does the rest of the heavy lifting herself, commenting on the meaning behind apocalyptic Clive Owen allegory “Children of Men” when asked about pregnancy rumors:

The message of the movie was if we don’t have children, there’s no hope for the future. And without hope, society just goes to pieces.

She might as well say the message of “Transformers” is that gigantic robots will someday invade and destroy the planet. (On second thought, maybe that is the message.)

The real clincher of the interview is the way Lopez describes her hubby’s favorite ‘version’ of her, style-wise:

[...] his favorite Jennifer is just the Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx, when my hair is kind of natural and curly and I have just a little bit of eyeliner on and big hoops and jeans.

Sign ‘em up for the comeback installment of Phil Donahue: Chongas and the Men Who Love Them! (Seriously, we hear “El Cantante” ain’t half bad.)

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