Jennifer Lopez Is Proud Of Her Scars
W Magazine|March 2017

Jennifer Lopez is zipping a fresh corpse into a body bag.

Jason Gay
Jennifer Lopez Is Proud Of Her Scars

It’s midafternoon on the Queens set of her NBC cop drama, Shades of Blue, and the 47-year-old globally famous actor– musician–entrepreneur–force majeure is filming a grim scene with a person whose cause of death is unknown. I am happy to report that when the scene wraps, the corpse climbs back out of the bag and goes to get lunch.

Lopez gets a break, too, and when I meet her a few minutes later upstairs in her modest dressing room (neutral colors, candles), she politely introduces herself as “ Jennifer,” as if we’re helping ourselves to coffee at a Tuesday-night PTA meeting. No introduction is necessary, of course. This is Jennifer Lopez—effing J.Lo!—and within seconds it becomes clear how she became who she is. Still in costume as her tough Shades character, Harlee Santos (navy sweater, matching slacks), Lopez in conversation is thoughtful, unabashedly direct, and funny—and deft with an expletive.

“I have no patience for anything that’s not real,” she says.“Just no bullshit.”

This story is from the March 2017 edition of W Magazine.

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