Jennifer Lopez Wants To 'Break The Mold' By Working With Female Directors

Jennifer Lopez is making it a point to work with more female directors, Oscar nominations be damned.


In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the Hustlers star discussed on a number of topics, including plans going forward to work with more females in film.


"It’s about breaking the mold of what folks are used to," she mentioned of networking with with females who direct films. "There are so several wonderful female directors; why aren’t we using them more? It’s hard to break patterns, even in yourself, so we have to prepare a conscious task to change the paradigm."


Though Lopez herself was curiously missing from the whole list of 2020 Academy Awards nominees for Hustlers, there was a total dearth of female directors as well. Little Women director Greta Gerwig was nowhere to be noticed, despite the film she worked on being nominated for a couple of awards, like Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Actresses Saiorse Ronan and Florence Pugh are up for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.


In Hustlers, Lopez played a role that was "really new" for her because it was the initial time she played a character that would be construed as a villain.


"It was the initial time I got to play a character who was unapologetically out for herself and sort of bad, actually taken over by greed.... She was so several different things. The perfect mom to this little girl, a best friend, and then a total savage. That was really new for me."


Speaking to USA Today, Lopez previously divulged that she's interested in making more movies about women's stories, about females of all stripes. That's exactly what she did


"Doing this movie was a big deal for me," she mentioned. "One of the things I'd like to do at my production business with my partner is to take the ladies from the background and put them at the forefront and tell their stories."


and it also looks like Jenny from the Block is going to keep doing this critical work whether the Academy sees it or not.