Jennifer Lopez could have gotten a ton of awards season buzz for her work within the 2019 drama “Hustlers,” however she didn’t stroll house with any main honors.
In reality, she mirrored on not receiving any prime prizes within the leisure world at Monday’s Elle Girls in Hollywood occasion. “I don’t have an Oscar. And I don’t have a Golden Globe. And I don’t have a Grammy or a SAG Award or a BAFTA or a Critics Alternative or a Hollywood Movie Award,” the multi-hyphenate mentioned after being introduced with this yr’s Icon Award by Common Photos boss Donna Langley.
“However that is my fifth Icon Award,” Lopez mentioned. “Of all of the issues that I believed I’d develop as much as be once I was somewhat lady, the very last thing you understand I used to be gonna have on my record was icon.”
Not that Lopez is complaining in regards to the recognition.
“This award is all about being a consultant image, on this case, what it’s to be a lady in Hollywood,” she mentioned. “However once I take into consideration that, and in regards to the issues that I spent my life doing and dealing at, you understand, I began off as dancer. After which I began making films after which data after which creating my very own model someway and corporations that every step of the best way. And every transition, there appeared to be great opposition, each literal like bodily and emotional, to the concept you could possibly do many various issues and be taken significantly.”
Earlier within the night, Lopez’s husband joked with Selection that he had “PTSD” when he noticed his spouse’s metallic breastplate ensemble as a result of it gave him “flashbacks” to his Batman swimsuit.
Fantasia Barino and Colman Domingo (in Ralph Lauren).
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Elle’s honorees additionally included Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, America Ferrera, Jodie Foster and Eva Longoria. Oprah Winfrey was available to honor “The Coloration Purple” stars Fantasia Barrino Taylor, Danielle Brooks and Taraji P. Henson.
“I need to thank my grandmother who gave me the identify Fantasia, which I hated once I was a child as a result of they by no means had the identify on the gasoline stations,” the “American Idol” star mentioned, referring to customized novelty license plates. “I instructed her once I get grown, I’m altering my identify. Now I need to thank her now. She’s in heaven now. I need to thank her for my identify. It’s an excellent identify.”
Taylor mirrored on her troubled previous. “I used to be a younger woman who went by a whole lot of issues and misplaced lots,” she mentioned. “I misplaced every little thing twice. I by no means thought I’d be again right here in entrance of y’all.”
Henson talked about “The Coloration Purple’s” theme of redemption. “That’s why I hate cancel tradition,” she mentioned. “How will you throw a rock after we all dwelling in glass homes? Minimize it out. We don’t must stroll our paths alone.”
Greta Lee hits the carpet in a Ralph Lauren robe.
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“Previous Lives” star Lee’s dad and mom attended the occasion. “My dad has been asking me for the final 20 years, ‘Are you medium-famous but?’” the “Previous Lives” star mentioned. “I needed to deliver them right here simply to show that that is actual. I’m lastly medium-famous. It has been a wild trip to get right here — to medium-famous.”
Danielle Brooks, in Moschino, arrives to Elle Girls in Hollywood.
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The visitor record at Elle Girls in Hollywood, which came about at Nya West studios, included Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sofia Carson. Alicia Silverstone, Colman Domingo, Lauren Sanchez, Jurnee Smollett, Zooey Deschanel, Bebe Rexha, Jameela Jamil, Kate Beckinsale, Lake Bell, Bella Ramsey, Normani and Madison Beer.
