Fans couldn't wait to watch Jennifer Lopez's new Netflix documentary, Halftime, which first premiered on June 8 at the Tribeca Film Festival, and became available to stream on June 14.
It provides a pretty interesting look at the 52-year-old superstar's life and career so far, as well as how J Lo has her sights set on the future. Here are some neat facts that we've learned from Halftime.
The 2020 Super Bowl double headliner was definitely an entertaining halftime show, and while Lopez felt honored to share the stage with a legend like Shakira, she was frustrated over time constraints.
The two evenly split their time, but Lopez felt they should've been given more. "If it was going to be a double headliner, they should have given us 20 minutes," she said in a call with Shakira. "That's what they should've [expletive] done."
Maybe you already knew this one, maybe you didn't, but that green dress she wore to the 2000 Grammy Awards was such a high search query for the then-text only engine, that the execs at Google had to figure out a way to give the people what they wanted (pictures of Lopez in the dress).
Part of J Lo's performance features kids (including her own) in "cages," which takes inspiration from migrant children who were separated from their parents and detained in border facilities.
Outraged with what she saw on the news, Lopez knew she had to make a statement, despite generally staying out of politics.
But she stuck to her guns: "To take out the cages and sacrifice what I believe in would be like not being there at all. The Super Bowl is tomorrow and we're not changing anything."
In the early 2000s, J Lo's public relationship with Ben Affleck (a relationship referred to as "Bennifer") was often the butt of media jokes and the source of a lot of mockery toward the star.
During this time, Lopez's self-esteem was at an all time low, and it caused her enough grief to want to quit her acting and singing careers.
She and Affleck broke things off in 2004, but have reconciled in recent months, even getting engaged earlier this year.
J Lo came into prominence at a time when curves weren't part of the beauty standard: "When I started working, the beauty ideal was very thin, blonde, tall, not a lot of curves."
"But I wound up affecting things in a way that I never intended to affect them," she said during the documentary.
2019's Hustlers was critically acclaimed, with many believing J Lo would receive her first Oscar nom for it. But when that didn't happen, it hit Lopez hard.
"I got my hopes up because so many people were telling me I would be. And then it didn't happen. I had to ask myself, what does that mean?"
"I do this to tell stories and to affect change and to connect with people and make them feel things, because I want to feel something."
She was up for a Golden Globe as well, but ultimately did not win.
Reflecting on her career, seeing herself "thriving," Lopez said, "I’m going to be unafraid to get loud and use my voice in the best way that I can."
The documentary is available to stream on Netflix.
