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Following a rough 2024 that saw her have to cancel an entire tour, star in a largely reviled Netflix movie and go through a public, drawn-out divorce from her husband Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez scored a much needed win at Sundance Film Festival over the weekend, where her new film Kiss of the Spider Woman premiered.
Similar to Jennifer Lopez’s other new movie — the Anthony Robles biopic Unstoppable, which hit Prime Video in January — Kiss of the Spider Woman was produced by Artists Equity, which is the production company that was founded by her ex-husband Ben Affleck and his longtime pal Matt Damon.
Kiss of the Spider Woman which does not yet have a distributor and therefore no release date, is based on the 1976 novel of the same name, which was also adapted into a Broadway play that won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1993.
Following the premiere of the film, the Sundance crowd gave Lopez and the film — directed by Chicago and Dreamgirls filmmaker Bill Condon — a standing ovation, which is a moment that the 55-year-old pop star and actress said she’s been waiting for “her whole life.”
“I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life. The reason I even wanted to be in this business is because my mom would sit me in front of the TV and [‘West Side Story’] would come on once a year. I was mesmerized and was like, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ This is the first time I actually got to do it. This man made my dream come true,” Lopez said following the standing ovation at the film’s Sundance premiere on Sunday, January 26, according to Variety.
Jennifer Lopez arrives to the #Sundance2025 premiere of her new film #KissOfTheSpiderWoman pic.twitter.com/zinMsPxqPg
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 27, 2025
In addition to Lopez, Kiss of the Spider Woman also stars Andor lead Diego Luna, Tonatiuh Elizarraraz, Tony Dovolani, Josefina Scaglione, Bruno Bichir, Aline Mayagoitia, and more.