She earned some of the best reviews of her career for her scene-stealing supporting performance in the 2019 crime dramedy Hustlers.But Jennifer Lopez was particularly disappointed at getting snubbed when the Academy Award nominations were announced and her film earned zero, her new Netflix documentary Halftime reveals.'I got my hopes up,' the 52-year-old actress and singer admits in the film.
Missed out: Jennifer Lopez delved into her feelings of disappointing after she was snubbed for an Oscar for Hustlers (2019) in her new documentary Halftime; pictured June 8 in NYCFollowing a string of critically derided movies that were intended as crowd pleasers, Jennifer won over a bevy of critics with her role in Hustlers.The movie was inspired by the New York Magazine articleThe Hustlers at Scores, and it followed a group of strippers with wealthy clients who began drugging the men before running up exorbitant tabs on their credit cards.Jennifer played the ringleader of the group, though she appeared in a supporting role to Constance Wu's lead.
Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Timesraved that 'Lopez gives her most electrifying screen performance since Out Of Sight, slipping the movie into her nonexistent pocket from the moment she strides out onto a neon-lighted stage in a rhinestone bodysuit.'Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribunewrote that the actress was 'dining out on her best role in years,' while the New York Times' A.
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