“I was talking about this the other day. [My production partner] Elaine [Goldsmith-Thomas] made a post where she listed all the things I had been nominated for and won that season,” Lopez said about the “Hustlers” awards season run. “And when it came to the Oscars, it was so obviously absent. It was a sting.”
“I was like, ‘Okay, when you’re supposedly in everybody else’s mind supposed to be nominated and you’re not, what does that mean? Is it really real? Are the other ones real and this one isn’t?’” Lopez continued. “It came to a point where I was like, ‘This is not why I do this. I don’t do this to have 10 Oscars sitting on my mantel or 20 Grammys.’” Shortly after the 2020 Oscars ceremony, Lopez sat down with Oprah Winfrey for the latter’s “2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour” and got candid about not making the cut with the Academy. Lopez said at the time she “felt like I let everyone down a little bit.” “I was sad. I was a little sad because there was a lot of buildup to it,” Lopez told Oprah. “There were so many articles, I got so many good notices — more than ever in my career — and there was a lot of: ‘She’s going to get nominated for an Oscar, it’s going to happen; if it doesn’t you’re crazy.’ I’m reading all the articles going: ‘Oh my god, could this happen?’ And then it didn’t and I was like: ‘Ouch.’ It was a little bit of a letdown.” With “Hustlers” behind her, Lopez now has several film projects in development on her slate. The actress will next star opposite Owen Wilson in the Universal Pictures comedy “Marry Me” (delayed to February 2022). Lopez is also attached to film “Shotgun Wedding” opposite Josh Duhamel, who recently replaced Armie Hammer as the film’s lead. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
