“I think George Clooney’s getting $10 million for this movie,” she said. The piece describes her demand for $5 million for Out of Sight, (a sum it characterizes as “flat-out outrageous”), while glossing over the fact that her co-star George Clooney was making twice that amount.īut J.Lo kept it real. In this 1998 Moveline interview, Lopez was already bluntly and publicly raising the issue of disparity in pay. This year, Jennifer Lawrence made headlines after writing an essay for Lenny Letter titled “Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars?,” which described the problematic gender pay gap in Hollywood.īut before there was a J.Law, there was a J.Lo. Like he’ll come onto the set going, ‘Aggghh, I was up fucking until four in the morning until I passed out.'”ģ On why she deserved more money for 'Out of Sight' He loves talking about how he sleeps with women. “He doesn’t hide anything when it comes to sex in his life. “I just went in there and we hit it off and I flirted with him, got tough with him and he just loved it.”Īlso, apparently Oliver Stone loves to talk about his gross sex life. “That’s the best way to deal with these bigwigs,” she explained. To hear her tell it, it wasn’t long before Stone was eating out of the palm of her hand. I’ve got Selena and I’m getting a million dollars for it,” she told Movieline about her thought process. “I have the upper hand here because I don’t care about this movie. When J.Lo initially auditioned for famed director Oliver Stone, he kind of curved her, offending her so much that she vowed to never work for him.īut when Stone called her up years later to discuss an opportunity to act in U-Turn, she felt she had more leverage. You all should really read the whole thing, but below we’ve pulled out some of her realest real talk moments:Ģ On playing hardball with Oliver Stone + his middle-aged sex life. The interview is so infamous, that nearly 20 years later there are entire threads dedicated to dissecting it and reliving its glory (sample commenter: “part of me will always love that she gave not a single fuck about coming for Hollywood’s lily-white chosen ones of the day.”)
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Lo was riding high on a string of successful movies, including the one that helped her become a household name, Selena. And the starlet on the rise was feeling herself so hard that she gave a now-legendary, no holds barred interview with Movieline that touched an all the taboo things celebrities never reveal (who makes what, who wants to have sex with who, and who is a talentless hack). And, a time when Jennifer Lopez had so much swagger and confidence that she could hardly imagine flops like Gigli and Maid in Manhattan lay in her future. A time when the ascent of a caramel woman with a big ol’ booty was enough to send shock waves through Hollywood. A time before camera phones and Twitter, when celebrities didn’t calculate their every move, friendship, and seemingly spontaneous comment.