Press conference with Jennifer Lopez and Dave Meyers in which they explain what the production of This Is Me…Now: A love story was like, an original and intimate project for Amazon Prime Video.
This February, Jennifer Lopez premieres her new project on Amazon Prime Video, This Is Me…Now: A love story, a mix between a music video and an autobiographical film about her love life, which she directs. Dave Meyers.
On the occasion of the premiere of this peculiar proposal, Jennifer Lopez and Dave Meyers have met to reveal all the ins and outs of the film and admit that, indeed, it is unclassifiable.
This Is Me…Now: A love story is not a movie or a video clip
When Jennifer Lopez finished recording his new album, This Is Me…Now, he thought: “There is something more to this story. There’s something bigger I want to do with this music. […] So I called Dave and we sat down and talked about it, and I played him some of the music and said, I want to do something. “I don’t know exactly what I want to do.”
And so they created something that had never been done before,”It was like I didn’t fit into any category. specific. Not a movie, not a video clip, but it was a story after all. “It is something very original.”
His vision was so different from the usual that Dave Meyers and Jennifer Lopez had a hard time making their project known, something that became one of the biggest challenges of the production. “We started putting it in writing, trying to describe it to people,” the singer explained. “They didn’t understand it at all, and we had to write a script so they would understand it”.
To find their final approach, they had several references, from musical films of all eras, such as Funny Girl (1968), West Side Story (1962) o Live of illusion (1962) until MTV of the 80s and 90s and all those “epic video clips that were made at that time” that Jennifer Lopez grew up with.
Without forgetting “every Disney movie” that the singer has seen, placing special emphasis on Beauty and the Beast (1991). “And by combining all these experiences, we were able to do something that seems really novel to me.”
Jennifer Lopez compared to Luke Skywalker
For This Is Me…Now: A love story of Amazon Prime VideoDave Meyers has returned to work together with Jennifer Lopez twenty years after their previous collaboration, and confesses that he has seen their evolution like that of Luke Skywalker from Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1997) to Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983).
Dave Meyers assures that Jennifer Lopez has matured, she has become braver, brave to show his vulnerability, but also “bolder, stronger and without complexes.” And he acknowledges that, if she is Luke Skywalker, he would “probably” be Obi-Wan Kenobio Yoda. Something that her partner agrees with: “He is all wise counselors.”
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story, the new work by Jennifer Lopez and Dave Meyers, premieres on Amazon Prime Video next February 16th.