{"id":8383,"date":"2025-11-02T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:47:03","slug":"the-two-of-them-are-the-same-lorene-scafaria-reveals-the-1-key-personality-trait-that-proved-jlo-was-born-to-play-her-golden-globe-nominated-hustlers-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=8383","title":{"rendered":"“The two of them are the same” Lorene Scafaria reveals the 1 key personality trait that proved JLo was born to play her Golden Globe-nominated Hustlers role!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, one of the most persistent claims around Jennifer Lopez\u2019s acting career has been that she is limited \u2014 a performer who looks compelling on screen, but who isn\u2019t built for serious character work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Director Lorene Scafaria strongly disagrees.<\/span><\/p>\n

And she has the receipts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The artistic case for Lopez \u2014 built from the inside of production<\/span><\/h3>\n

When Scafaria finished the screenplay for Hustlers<\/em> \u2014 the 2019 crime drama based on a real group of women who engineered a complex financial scheme \u2014 she says she did not have to go through a casting grid.<\/span><\/p>\n

She already knew who the emotional center of the film was.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe moment I finished the script, I realized \u2014 Ramona is Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer Lopez is Ramona,\u201d she later told interviewers. \u201cThe two of them are the same.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It was the opposite of typecasting. In Scafaria\u2019s view, Lopez was not playing toward image \u2014 she was playing toward capability.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The preparation \u2014 not surface glamour, but full immersion<\/span><\/h3>\n

Scafaria says the public never saw most of the work Lopez put in.<\/span><\/p>\n

The headlines came from the styling.<\/span>
The performance, she says, came from discipline:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Lopez trained physically and technically for months.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    She rejected body double assistance for complex movement sequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    She adopted specific physical behaviors to quickly enter character mindset.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    It was not done for aesthetic effect \u2014 it was because the character required psychological grounding.<\/span><\/p>\n

    A career pattern \u2014 not an exception<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Industry veterans point out that Hustlers<\/em> was not Lopez randomly attempting \u201cserious work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    She already had dramatic credits that critics praised, including:<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Out of Sight (1998)<\/strong> \u2014 a performance that earned widespread respect in the crime-thriller space.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Shades of Blue (2016\u201318)<\/strong> \u2014 a network drama built entirely around her lead character\u2019s internal conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Across these roles \u2014 and in Hustlers<\/em> \u2014 Lopez\u2019s strongest contributions were not about wardrobe or marketing appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n

      They were about internal choices.<\/span><\/p>\n

      The label vs the evidence<\/span><\/h3>\n

      The recurring claim that Lopez is \u201conly playing glamour\u201d remains a public clich\u00e9 \u2014 but the people who\u2019ve directed her, acted beside her, and edited her performance frames say a very different thing:<\/span><\/p>\n

      she is not selling attitude \u2014 she is building characters.<\/span><\/p>\n

      Scafaria says Lopez succeeded because she didn\u2019t imitate<\/em> Ramona.<\/span><\/p>\n

      She understood<\/em> her.<\/span><\/p>\n

      And in the director\u2019s eyes \u2014 that\u2019s what makes an actor serious.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      For years, one of the most persistent claims around Jennifer Lopez\u2019s acting career has been that she is limited \u2014 a performer who looks compelling on screen, but who isn\u2019t built for serious character work. Director Lorene Scafaria strongly disagrees. And she has the receipts. The artistic case for Lopez \u2014 built from the inside…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}