Jennifer Lopez Gives Surprising Response to Who Should Play Her in Biopic

In a world where the lives of public figures have long been given the big screen treatment, Jennifer Lopez has responded to a question on who she would like to portray her if ever she becomes the subject of a biopic.

The singer and actress, 53, recently became the latest participant in Vogue's popular "73 Questions" series, where she was quizzed quick-fire style after welcoming interviewer Joe Sabia into her palatial Los Angeles property.

In the midst of the interview, Lopez, who portrayed late Tejano singer Selena Perez in the 1997 movie Selena, was asked: "Who do you think should portray you in a movie about the story of your life?"

After handing her interviewer a cup of tea, the mother of two was seen mulling her answer for a few seconds before she responded: "She hasn't been born yet."

With a varied career to draw on, Lopez was also asked what her favorite music video was, to which she answered "If You Had My Love," explaining that it gets the special top prize "because it was the first."

She was also asked which of her movies she would most like a sequel to, answering—perhaps surprisingly—that her choice was Gigli.

The movie, which was released in 2003, turned out to be a critically panned box office flop. But it was also the film in which she first worked with her now-husband, Ben Affleck.

In her interview with Vogue magazine, Lopez revealed that she took Affleck's last name after their recent marriage for "tradition and romance."

The remarks came after an opinion piece from The New York Times suggested Lopez was not representing feminism by legally taking Affleck's last name. In the article, novelist Jennifer Weiner called Lopez's name change following the July nuptials "dispiriting."

"People are still going to call me Jennifer Lopez. But my legal name will be Mrs. Affleck because we're joined together. We're husband and wife. I'm proud of that. I don't think that's a problem," Lopez told Vogue.

When asked by the magazine about the possibility of Affleck taking her last name, she laughed off the suggestion.

"No! It's not traditional... It feels like it's a power move, you know what I mean? I'm very much in control of my own life and destiny and feel empowered as a woman and as a person," Lopez said. "But if you want to know how I feel about it, I just feel like it's romantic. It still carries tradition and romance to me, and maybe I'm just that kind of girl."

Lopez and Affleck first began dating in 2002 and became engaged later that year. However, their wedding was postponed in 2003 before they officially split in early 2004. In the nearly 20 years they were apart, Affleck married actress Jennifer Garner and had three children, while Lopez wed singer Marc Anthony, who fathered her teenage twins.

The romance between Lopez and Affleck was rekindled after they both found themselves single in 2021, she told Vogue. Lopez had recently called off her engagement to retired baseball star Alex Rodriguez, while Affleck had just broken up with his girlfriend, actress Ana de Armas.

In a cover story for InStyle published in April of 2021, Affleck joined bold-faced names like Michelle Obama, Matthew McConaughey and Donatella Versace in praising Lopez's impact on culture.

"She remains, to this day, the hardest-working person I've come across in this business," Affleck said.

Lopez told Vogue that Affleck emailed her to give her a heads-up about his comments, which led them to talking again. Soon, they were meeting again in person.

"Obviously we weren't trying to go out in public," she said. "But I never shied away from the fact that for me, I always felt like there was a real love there, a true love there. People in my life know that he was a very, very special person in my life. When we reconnected, those feelings for me were still very real."