First was Sonia Braga in Hollywood; Then, Chita Rivera on Broadway and Valeria Lynch in Buenos Aires. Now, it is the turn of Jennifer Lopez. The Bronx diva was put in the skin of Aurora, the “spider woman” created by the Argentine Manuel Puig in Kiss of the Spider Womanone of the most important musical film bets of 2025. And this Thursday the first trailer was known in which she is seen shining as if she were a star of the golden age.
Kiss of the Spider Woman It is an adaptation of the musical of Terrence McNally, John Kander and Fred EBB, based on the book Spider -woman kissfrom Puig. It is directed by De Bill Condon, and starring Lopez, Diego Luna, Tonatiuh Elizarraz and Argentina Josefina Scaglione.
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In the movie, Lopez plays Ingrid Luna, a fabulous diva of the screen whose most famous role is that of the spider womancapable of killing their lovers with a kiss. Unlike what happens in the musical, in which the plot takes place in an indefinite country in Latin America, the film takes up Puig’s original idea and places the action in a Buenos Aires prison, in 1983, under a dictatorial regime.
The story takes place in a dungeon in which Luis (Tonatiuh) meets a sentence for the simple fact of being homosexual. Valentín, a political prisoner of the left is transferred to that same cell. Unexpectedly, A link arises among them thanks to the magic of music and cinema, and the continuous evocation of that film character that gives name to the film.
In the trailer, Lopez can be heard singing one of the most famous themes of the musical, “where you are”. In total, the film has 13 numbers, played by Lopez, Tonatiuh, Scaglione and Luna.
Its director, Condon, the head of other musicals taken to the big screen, such as Dreamgirls and Beauty and the beastand also of the saga Twilightamong several titles.
Scaglione, the only local credit of the lavish project, produced by Lopez, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, told a while ago to The nation How was the experience of filming with the rest of the cast. “In January, my manager writes to the United States, Danielle Thomas, and proposes to audition for Marta’s role (Valentín’s wife, the revolutionary imprisonment that Luna interprets). They ask me for a Self tape Or Autocasting, in which I had to sing the song that, then, played a duo with Aurora (Lopez): “I do Miracles.” I filmed the self tape as I could, for those things of motherhood, with my little son next to him, giving the track to which he had to sing. I did it in my house, in the middle of a familiarly complicated day. It was very stressful, it is that in the Autocasting you go from being a camera actress, illuminator and even editor! Then I sent it without great expectations. I knew I had given my best within the conditions pointed out, but also that I could have made a better video. So I released it, ”he said first.
His talent could more, and soon he learned that he had achieved the role. “Most of the film was shot in New Jersey, but my scenes were just filmed in Uruguay. It is that a part of the story transcurre in Buenos Aires, so they wanted to film here or in a similar place. Here it could not be done unfortunately because, as they told me, a different budget passed to the production every week and they could never project the costs. Then they chose to go to Montevideo and film the exteriors in Ciudad Vieja (simulating San Telmo). And also in Montevideo the set of jail was armed, where my scenes pass. In short, in Uruguay all the scenes corresponding to the realistic plane of history were filmed, and in the United States, which have to do with the dream plane (where Aurora’s musical numbers pass), ”explained the actress.
Kiss of the Spider Woman It will premiere in the United States on October 10 of this year.
