Lopez says plenty of the movie — during which Affleck seems — feels “very autobiographical,” however with a surreal or meta twist.

The Prime Video venture, which drops on February 16, coincides along with her first studio album in a decade and, per the streamer, “showcases her journey to like by her personal eyes.” Anybody who’s seen the trailer for the movie, nonetheless, is aware of this is not a straight-forward narrative — and as a substitute is one full of dance breaks, many a metaphor and a few very surreal moments because the self-described “hopeless romantic” works her manner by heartbreak.

One such heartbreak making its manner into the movie, in keeping with director Dave Meyers, is the one which got here after J.Lo and now-husband Ben Affleck broke up for the primary time within the 2000s. Talking with press alongside Lopez this week, Meyers stated a scene which takes place in a manufacturing facility and sees the singer making an attempt to cease the meltdown of a literal heart-shaped furnace was impressed by that cut up.

“That stemmed from her telling me the ache that she’s been in, particularly the ache that she went by when she broke up with Ben the primary time,” stated Meyers. “There was plenty of honesty that was shared the primary assembly. So the center manufacturing facility turned a titanic-level meltdown, which was a metaphor for what she was giving me so far as her fact.”

Whereas there are plenty of out-there parts in This Is Me … Now, the director stated plenty of these nonetheless stemmed from Lopez’s “actual story.”

Lopez, in the meantime, stated together with these nuggets of fact is not something new — and, after her renewed relationship with Affleck impressed new music, she was able to put all of it on the market for her followers.

“There’s not a venture that I’ve ever been concerned with, whether or not it is music or motion pictures or something, that I did not put a bunch of my life into and plenty of my private expertise,” she shared.

“As an artist, that is all you actually have to attract on, the experiences you’ve and the experiences of different individuals round you that you simply bore witness to and with this one, it appeared like such an vital second in my life, a turning level in my life and I used to be at a a degree in my life the place as an individual and an artist, I may actually take a look at all of the issues I used to be good at and the issues I felt and knew about myself and put all of them into this venture,” she continued. “Sure, there’s elements of it that really feel very autobiographical and there is elements of it which might be type of meta, not precisely what occurred, however the feeling of that’s what occurred.”

Saying some inventive licenses had been taken for storytelling functions, Lopez believes the combo of non-public and fantasy “makes it shifting, entertaining and on the similar time tremendous actual.”

In line with Lopez and Meyers, quite a few studios handed on the movie as she and Affleck pitched it round Hollywood. The 2 stated lots of people “did not fairly get” what they had been making an attempt to do, with Affleck even giving them some “mentor-level” recommendation on methods to get the venture going. Per Meyers, Lopez funded the venture herself — and referred to as up her personal celeb mates for cameos.

“They did not perceive what they had been doing, they had been on the market carrying humorous costumes on a inexperienced display screen,” he stated, referring to forged members like Sofia Vergara, Derek Hough, Keke Palmer, Publish Malone and Kim Petras.

“They had been like, ‘What am I doing?’ I used to be like, ‘Simply belief me, it is gonna be high quality, I’d by no means make you look loopy and if it appears loopy, we’ll throw it within the rubbish,’” stated Lopez. “A number of them have seen the movie and are so excited.”

Being with Affleck and dealing on this movie particularly has triggered a shift in Lopez, who referred to as this time in her life the top of 1 chapter and the start of a brand new one.

“Ben stated this to me, I used to be like, ‘I do not write, I do not do that.’ And he was like, ‘You do you write, you produce, you do all of the issues, begin moving into that, begin proudly owning that a bit of bit. Begin proudly owning who you’re,’” she revealed.

“[This Is Me … Now] ended this 20 yr journey and plenty of questions I had about love and being myself a hopeless romantic and what it means to enter right into a more healthy, extra self-accepting part for myself,” Lopez continued.

“What the film exhibits is that there have been struggles, there have been exhausting instances that no person knew about, that I saved to myself,” she concluded. “Gaining the arrogance to be susceptible and to confess sure issues to the world, I feel has solely made me extra snug in my very own pores and skin and empowered me to step into this subsequent part of my life as an artist and as a human being … an entire new chapter of me feeling extra free to specific myself in plenty of completely different and thrilling methods.”

This Is Me … Now hits Prime Video on February 16.