Jennifer Lopez was busy this weekend promoting Unstoppable. The film had its world premiere at TIFF about six weeks ago and there were back-to-back screenings this weekend at the DGA and AFI Fest.
Her outfit at AFI Fest surprised me. This is not what I would have predicted. I mean, it’s still JLo-coded, with all that leg, but if you had asked me beforehand what she might show up in, I would have said some kind of sexy dress. Instead JLo arrived in a really cute cargo belted bubble skirt under an oversized jacket and the Gucci Angel platforms that were everywhere from like 2016-2018.
JLo was at AFI with lead actor Jharrel Jerome and Anthony Robles who he plays in the film, and also his mother, Judy Robles, who she plays in the film, as all of them participated on the panel.
The press tour will continue next week in the UK as JLo is confirmed to be on The Graham Norton Show on November 8. Other guests on that episode include Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Lucy Liu, and Kate Winslet. This is three days after the US election. I wonder if that might come up. Or whether or not Graham will ask JLo about… umm… you know.
Politics, however, is the headline today, though, because at that Trump rally in New York yesterday, one of the speakers, we don’t need to say his name, at one point referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage." There was some other gross sh-t that was said about Latinx people that we don’t have to repeat. In response, JLo, who’s already endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, shared information about the Harris-Walz platform for Puerto Rico.
But also, in response, arguably the most influential artist out of Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny, posted four slides amplifying the Harris-Walz platform, confirming his endorsement. And Ricky Martin did the same.
Bad Bunny reshares Kamala Harris video on Instagram outlining her policy to uplift Puerto Ricans. pic.twitter.com/9iwtPAQlP4
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 27, 2024
Luis Fonsi too.
According to election coverage across the mainstream media and networks, the election is going to be close. (This is f-cking crazy to me considering there’s an actual monster running for president.) Obviously celebrity endorsements don’t necessarily translate to votes, but in this case it’s about awareness, and making all those millions of followers of all these artists aware of what was said, and how they’ll really be treated should these people come (back) to power.
VOTE!
