Jennifer Lopez Wears Spiderweb Robe for ‘Kiss of the Spider Lady’ Sundance Premiere

Jennifer Lopez premiered her very first film musical in snowy Utah. 

On the Sundance Movie Competition in Park Metropolis on Sunday, Jan. 26, the actress-singer, 55, walked the crimson carpet for the world premiere of Kiss of the Spider Lady alongside director Invoice Condon, costar Tonatiuh and extra.

For the premiere, Lopez wore a black Valdrin Sahiti lace robe fully bedazzled in Hassanzadeh jewellery forming a spiderweb from her neck to her toes. Whereas heading to the occasion, she stayed heat by carrying a white YSL fur coat over the outfit.

Kiss of the Spider Lady stars Diego Luna, who was noticeably absent from Sundance, as a political prisoner throughout Argentina’s civil conflict within the Nineteen Eighties, incarcerated alongside one other man portrayed by Tonatiuh.

“[Luna] sends his love. I do know he had a household emergency that saved him in Madrid, however he’s heartbroken to not be right here,” Condon, 69, mentioned of Luna, 45, earlier within the day throughout a Los Angeles Instances panel concerning the movie.

Kiss of the Spider Lady is a reimagining of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Terrence McNally‘s stage adaptation of Argentine author Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel. The Broadway adaptation took house the Tony Award for greatest musical in 1993. A non-musical 1985 movie tailored from the identical novel starred William Damage, Raul Julia and Sônia Braga.

An official Sundance Movie Competition synopsis for the brand new film describes it as “a textually wealthy historic and political drama with the flashy technicolor extravagance of an previous Hollywood musical.”

“Lopez is an astonishing scene-stealer in a career-highlight efficiency as Luna/Aurora, with showstopping musical numbers that underscore the exuberant prowess of her dancing and voice,” the synopsis added.

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Lopez revealed on the L.A. Instances panel that she ready for months to play movie-star-within-a-movie Ingrid Luna.

“I might’ve favored to have had a complete 12 months to do an enormous musical like this, however we didn’t have that — this impartial movie, and so all the things was crunched. We did not have a lot time,” Lopez mentioned. “It was difficult. It actually was. For me, I used to be a dancer. However for Diego and Tona, it was very difficult, however we did it and we pulled it by.”

Tonatiuh described Lopez as a drive of nature on set.

“It was watching a mastery of labor to see you earlier than each single time. There have been even occasions the place I wasn’t even within the quantity and I might present as much as set simply to be like, oh my gosh, she’s doing good once more. That is unbelievable,” Tonatiuh mentioned on the panel. “And thoughts you, we actually had been taking pictures a quantity a day. … You’re a drive of nature, actually.”

In an interview on Dwell with Kelly and Mark in Could, Lopez described Kiss of the Spider Lady as “all singing and dancing, which was equal elements exhilarating and exhausting as nicely,” per Leisure Weekly. “I’m the thinnest I’ve ever been. I’m in combating form proper now.”

Kiss of the Spider Lady doesn’t but have a distributor or launch date. Lopez, in addition to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon by their firm Artists Fairness, are among the many film’s producers.