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Jennifer Lopez and nan squad down “The Mother” are already reasoning astir a sequel.
“I deliberation it would beryllium ‘The Daughter,’” Lopez told maine Wednesday nighttime astatine nan premiere of nan caller Netflix action thriller.
In nan film, Lopez plays a erstwhile assassin who is pulled backmost into her deadly activity erstwhile her 12-year-old daughter’s (Lucy Paez) life is put successful danger.
Paez agreed. “The sequel will decidedly beryllium ‘The Daughter,’” nan young character said.
Not only does Lopez’s characteristic termination astatine slightest a mates twelve men successful nan movie, but nan actor’s awesome stunt activity besides includes motorcycle chases and gunfights while riding a snowmobile. “I was achy, but not hurt,” Lopez said. “I don’t deliberation I’ve ever done an action movie for illustration this. I do a batch of my ain stunts because I’m athletic. But I person kids truthful I’m not going to consequence anything.”
In fact, Lopez said she was looking retired for everyone’s information while filming. “I’m much skittish than anyone connected nan set,” she explained. “Even pinch nan babe cub wolves, I was like, ‘Let’s beryllium careful. I don’t want anyone getting bit. I don’t want anyone getting hurt.’ That’s thing I conscionable don’t messiness astir with. Safety comes first.”
That said, location wasn’t overmuch Lopez wouldn’t do, according to head Niki Caro. “It’s astonishing to watch her because nan first clip she does something, it goes into her musculus memory,” Caro said. “And past she tin conscionable do it complete and complete and complete again.”
The head past recalled 1 of her first meetings pinch Lopez. “I said to her, ‘Can you run?’” Caro said, laughing. “She looked astatine maine and was like, ‘What do you mean tin I run?’ I didn’t know.”
I joke pinch Lopez that nan movie seems for illustration an audition for her to play James Bond. “Are they considering a female for James Bond?” she replied. “That would beryllium hilarious. We could do anything.”
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MAY 10: (L-R) Liz Tan, Molly Allen, Marc Evans, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Lucy Paez, Jennifer Lopez, Niki Caro, Omari Hardwick, Yvonne Senat Jones, Paul Raci and Courtney Baxter be “The Mother” Los Angeles Premiere Event astatine Westwood Village connected May 10, 2023 successful Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Netflix) Getty Images for Netflix
Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas recalled surviving together erstwhile they were connected location successful distant Canada woods. “I was really frightened because she caught maine eating carbs,” Goldsmith-Thomas said. “She didn’t eat immoderate carbs. I was like, ‘Me, too! Solidarity!’ But past I snuck immoderate Cheetos. She was a beast. I don’t cognize if she was successful amended style for this aliases ‘Hustlers,’ but she was a beast.”
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MAY 10: (L-R) Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez be “The Mother” Los Angeles Premiere Event astatine Westwood Village connected May 10, 2023 successful Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Netflix) Getty Images for Netflix
Fitness trainer Tracy Anderson, creator of nan Tracy Anderson Method, has worked pinch Lopez for galore years. “She’s personification that I perfectly garbage to return in installments for. There are galore group wherever I’m like, ‘Look, I really worked difficult connected this person, and I merit nan credit,’” Anderson said. “But she’s really not 1 of them because she is genetically extraordinary. If personification could postgraduate pinch nan highest honors successful beingness literacy, she would beryllium for illustration summa cum laude. She knows her assemblage truthful well.”
