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Интервью Марка и Дженнифер по случаю премьеры "El Cantante".
Seeking to avoid the intense publicity her previous romances generated, Jennifer Lopez has chosen not to talk publicly about her private life since her marriage to Marc Anthony. She can't avoid it, though, when she and her husband make a movie together.
In their newest one, "El Cantante" ("The Singer"), Marc plays the part of musician Hector Lavoe, whose music was the precursor of salsa. Jennifer, naturally, plays his wife.
After the movie was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, long before its world premiere (there's no date release yet), we sat down to talk to them and find out some details about whether Jennifer and Marc's marriage is as harmonious as it seems.
Q: Were you two cast for "El Cantante" before you became a couple in real life?
Jennifer Lopez: Yes.
Q: Since you were the producer of the movie, Jennifer, was it your personal decision to cast Marc Anthony to play the lead role?
Jennifer Lopez: The script was brought to me because "Puchi" (Hector Lavoe's wife) thought that I should play her, and then I said I would like to produce it and star in it. And I took the project from there. I called Marc (Anthony) myself on the phone. I remember that day in my office, and I asked him "Are you going to do this movie or what?" And he said, "Yeah, definitely." That's how it happened; it was way before we got together.
Q: Why did you choose Marc Anthony to play Hector Lavoe?
Jennifer Lopez: I always knew Marc was a fantastic actor. I could see it in him. Nobody could sing like that, with all that passion and all that feeling. I knew there was so much in there that he could bring to a leading role. He'd never been given the opportunity. And for me to watch that happen, he kind of drove me over the edge with his Hectorian ways. I was really, really impressed when I saw the finished product on screen.
Marc Anthony: You don't want to know how I hurt every day, thinking, "I'm doing something. I'm in the middle of a process that's difficult to articulate."
Q: Did working together on the film set make your personal life together more complicated?
Marc Anthony: I realized about halfway through the process what a luxury it was having your fellow actor know what she wants to accomplish on the set. Usually, you have a costar, and you read the lines, and you know he's going to bring his game and you're going to bring your game. But being privy to the information, driving to the set with Jen, gave me a lot of information to be able to help her, and vice versa.
She pushed those buttons. That was a luxury to truly know my costar. She knew what buttons to press, and I knew what buttons to press as well. I realized for the first time how sane we were as a couple.
Jennifer Lopez: As crazy as we are.
Marc Anthony: No, really. Doing those scenes and then coming home, I realized we're normal.
Jennifer Lopez: I would say to him that if Hector and Puchi did this for 20 years, surely we can make it through this weekend.
Marc and Jennifer have a lot more in common than just music. Both are of Puerto Rican ancestry, and both were born in New York City, less than a year apart. He was born on September 16, 1968, and she was born on July 24, 1969. They worked together once before, when Marc appeared with Jennifer in a music video, "You Don't Love Me." (Their chemistry in the video belied the title.) Experience with marriage (and divorce) is something else they have in common. Jennifer was married twice before; the first time to unknown model and actor Ojani Noa, the second time to dancer Cris Judd. She has also had well-publicized romances with Sean "Puffy" Combs and Ben Affleck.
Marc Anthony also had a child with a New York City policewoman before he was married to Dayanara Torres Delgado.
Just six months after the official announcement of Jen's engagement to Ben Affleck, and four days after Marc's divorce became final, Marc Anthony Muniz and Jennifer Lynn Lopez exchanged wedding rings at an informal party on June 5, 2004. Not even the guests knew what occasion they had been invited to celebrate.
Although the most cynical of critics predicted the marriage would end quickly, the two are still together after more than two years, and apparently in no hurry to change their marital status.
Q: What do you see yourselves doing 20 years from now? Making more movies? Music? Producing? Supporting newcomers? Raising children?
Marc Anthony: Twenty years from now? Somebody making a movie about me.
Jennifer Lopez: We're both very creative people. Twenty years from now I see us doing everything we're doing now.
Q: Do you think that love can be as deep and as destructive as it was for Hector Lavoe and Puchi and still survive for so long?
Jennifer Lopez: Obviously it did. It survived for 20 years. In the last few years, just like I say at the end of the movie, she wasn't there for him all the time, but she was there for him. He never left her heart.
"El Cantante" traces the evolution of salsa music through the life story of Hector Lavoe, starting with his move from Puerto Rico to New York City.
It shows his relationship with his long-suffering wife "Puchi," his addiction to cocaine and heroin, and his death in 1993 from complications of AIDS.
His life was filled with drama, and also wonderful music that will keep his name alive for future generations, as will this movie.
Q: What was it like to play Puchi?
Jennifer Lopez: For me it was a big challenge to play Puchi at two different times in her life. It was very helpful to have 11 CDs of her talking to the scriptwriter. I could only hear her, I couldn't see her, but being Puerto Rican, I had aunts who were somewhat like her.
She and Hector needed each other, and they were the worst thing for each other. There was a lot of love there.
Jennifer's life and career took off in a new direction when she appeared in the title role of "Selena." The movie about the Tex-Mex singer's career was an instant success, and suddenly Jennifer was the best paid Hispanic actress in Hollywood: US$1 million for the movie. Then she crossed over into parts that weren't written expressly for a Hispanic actress. That same year she starred with Jack Nicholson in "Blood and Wine" and with George Clooney in "Out of Sight."
Her musical career took off at the same time, when her album, "On the Six," went platinum only two weeks after release. She and Ricky Martin put Latin music on the charts, appealing to a wider audience.
Smart woman, Jennifer Lopez takes advantage of each and every business opportunity. She owns a restaurant, "Madres," has her own line of clothing and several perfumes bearing her signature, all the while acting in movies and running her film production company, Nuyorican Productions, which made "El Cantante."
Q: How do you manage to do so many things at the same time? What is closest to your heart?
Jennifer Lopez: My heart tells me what to concentrate on at the time. It's what I feel. Sometimes I feel like it's all about music for me, which is how it's been for the past few months.
I don't plan all these things. I am just a creative person, and I like creating things from nothing, whether it's a perfume or a song, a movie, a character, or a movie from scratch.
I don't say to myself "I can't do this," or "I can't do that," "I'm an actress so I shouldn't sing." I feel like it, so I do it.
Q: The rest of us mere mortals have 24 hours a day. How do you make it work with 24 hours and not 72?
Jennifer Lopez: I do what I feel at the moment. And quickly.
Marc Anthony: I've been in the business about 27 years now, and I've never met anybody with such laser focus, with such clarity.
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