Netflix's Jennifer Lopez Documentary Is Out Now
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The Jennifer Lopez news just keeps coming. Lopez, fresh off her engagement to Ben Affleck, is now the subject of a brand-new Netflix documentary, Halftime.
The film primarily features Lopez in the lead-up to her Super Bowl show. "I'm trying to give you something with substance," she says in the trailer. "Not just us out there shaking our fucking asses. I want something real." In Halftime, Lopez talks about the impact the tabloids and living in the public eye has on her, and the "low self-esteem" she felt when she was snubbed for an Oscar nomination for her performance in Hustlers.
The documentary also features an interview with her fiancé Ben Affleck. In the trailer, he says, "I said to her once, doesn't this bother you? And she said, 'I expected this,'" referring to the media frenzy around her.
Halftime had its world premiere on opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival in Washington Heights. Per the festival, "Halftime offers an intimate peek behind the curtain revealing the grit and determination that makes Jennifer Lopez the icon she is, from her performances onscreen and on stages around the world, to her Super Bowl halftime show, to the recent presidential inauguration."
Lopez sang "This Land Is Your Land" and "America the Beautiful" at President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021, and her halftime performance with Shakira at the 2020 Super Bowl has been viewed over 231 million times on YouTube. As the description specifically notes these two moments, it's likely Halftime will cover JLo's life and career 2020 and 2021.
"The documentary focuses on an international superstar who has inspired people for decades with her perseverance, creative brilliance, and cultural contributions. And it's only the beginning," the statement continued. "Halftime serves as the kickoff to the second half of Lopez's life, as she lays bare her evolution as a Latina, a mother, and an artist, taking agency in her career and using her voice for a greater purpose."
This is not the first Jennifer Lopez documentary; Jennifer Lopez: Dance Again premiered on HBO in 2014 and, per the description, "combines riveting musical performances with a raw and candid look at Lopez's personal and professional life over a defining six-month period, when she challenges herself to go on tour with her two young children in tow." In addition, Jennifer Lopez in Concert, a TV special, premiered in 2001 and was reworked as Jennifer Lopez: Let's Get Loud in 2013, and Jennifer Lopez: Feelin' So Good, came out in 2000.
How to watch Halftime:
The film will premiere during Tribeca Film Festival on June 8 at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Halftime will be available to stream on Netflix staring June 14. If you need another endorsement, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro described the film as "powerful storytelling."
"Powerful storytelling—whether in music, film, or games—encourages us to fight for universal values that bind humanity together," he said in a statement. "Halftime, featuring Jennifer Lopez, reminds us of that."
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