by the El Reportero’s news services
Jennifer López says The Boy Next Door was her first micro-budget movie filmed within 23 days for four million dollars, and that a bigger studio would not have cast two Latino leads.
According to López, The Boy Next Door appeals to all.
“It’s a mainstream movie, it’s not ‘a Latino movie,’ but the truth is, as a producer, I’m very proud because in retrospect, I just picked the best actor for the role,” the mother of two said. “But at the end of the day, if a big studio made this movie, I don’t know that they would’ve cast the both of us in this because of that.”
The star hopes that the film will do well with “two Latinos opening in a mainstream movie,” which would “change things.”
“I would love for the Latino community to come out and support this movie because it would give us the freedom,” López said.
The “American Idol” judge plays alongside Latino actor Ryan Guzman, who is a star of the “Step Up” franchise.
Lopez went on to say how she related to the character in the film who is an older woman that went after a younger man.The film will be released tomorrow in USA and taken to Latin America on March 19.
“It seemed so perfect for me right now in my life,” the 45-year-old pop star said. “[Claire Peterson is] late 30s-early 40s .. separated about to go through a divorce, deciding, feeling like at her lowest point in her life. You know how that is, her husband’s cheated on her. She doesn’t know how to deal with it and is not feeling desirable.”
Spain launches two books on Leon-Cuba ties
The books, Entre la cruz y el huracán (Between the Cross and Hurricane) and Tres cuentos leoneses en La Habana (Three Leon’’s stories in Havana), were launched today, on occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Leon Community in Cuba.
Entre la cruz y el huracan, by Luis Enrique Ramos, a member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, describes the life of Leon’s scientist and Jesuit Mariano Gutiérrez-Lanza, a prominent man in a meteorology who worked in the Caribbean island.
In a letter read in the activity, Ramos links Gutiérrez-Lanza’s altruistic work with that carried out today by thousands of the island’s physicians combating different diseases worldwide, and that of the scientists searching vaccines to fight cancer.
The other book, Tres cuentos leoneses en La Habana, by Alfonso García, is a recreation of the Cuban capital and the imaginary linking that city and Leon, capital of the homonimous province, in the autochthonous community of Castilla and León.
Cuban ambassador Eugenio Martínez recalled in an activity held at the Leon House in Madrid the intensive relations existing between the two countries, and the closeness of both people that have shared much history in common.
Uruguay begins the world’’s longest carnival
The Uruguayan carnival, considered the longest one in the world, began with an attractive parade of floats, dancers, artists and musicians through downtown Montevideo, with the rejoicing of tens of thousands of people.
