Jennifer Lopez Documentary ‘Halftime’ Reveals Frustrations With NFL Over Co-Headlining Show With Shakira: ‘This Is The Worst Idea In The World’

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Putting together the 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show was full of frustration for JLo. In her new documentary, “Halftime”, Jennifer Lopez is shown dealing with the NFL after the league’s decision to make Shakira a co-headliner for the show, which Lopez’s manager Benny Medina calls an “insult.” “Typically, you have one headliner at a Super Bowl.

That headliner constructs a show, and, should they choose to have other guests, that’s their choice,” Medina says. “It was an insult to say you needed two Latinas to do the job that one artist historically has done.” READ MORE: Jennifer Lopez’s ‘Halftime’ Doc Reveals Why Daughter Emme’s Super Bowl Moment Almost Didn’t Happen Among the difficulties with managing the co-headlining act was trying to figure out how the performers would split the time. “I know that the Super Bowl people want us to be weaved throughout the show.

I haven’t had a confirmation about how many minutes I’m going to have,” Shakira tells Lopez at one point. “Let me address that really quick.

They said 12 minutes,” Lopez responds. “I got kind of a good confirmation that we could have an extra minute or two, so now we’re at, like, 13, 14 minutes.