Jennifer Lopez Was ‘Worried’ To Go Blonde For ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’

Jennifer Lopez recently discussed the risks she experienced when changing her appearance for her latest movie, Kiss of the Spider Woman. In a recent interview on The Howard Stern Show, the 56-year-old

singer and actress revealed that she was “worried” about deviating from her usual hairstyle and going platinum blonde for the role of Ingrid Luna.

Despite embracing the blonde role for the movie, Lopez stated that she had no plans to maintain the appearance after the shoot. After production was over, she restored her more comfortable tones. However, the encounter left an impact on her both personally and aesthetically since she completely embraced a role that required transformation.

Jennifer Lopez’s bold transformation

Lopez noted how the casting required a complete metamorphosis in addition to performing. “Everything changed. I turned into a different person,” she stated, emphasising how even her posture, movements, and skin tone had to be reinvented.

She admitted that she had never tried full platinum hair before and that the blonde wigs she had tried in the past “always looked so terrible” on her skin tone, as per PEOPLE.

Host Howard Stern praised Lopez’s performance and commented on the eye-catching hairstyle. “I like you as a platinum blonde,” he stated, before adding, “I know you were thinking I don’t want to be [blonde] in the movie.”

“It was so different. I was just worried because I’d never had platinum blonde hair,” Lopez said, acknowledging that she had those same reservations.

She also gave appreciation to her makeup artist, Scott Barnes, for helping her adapt. “I know how to do it. We are going to make it beautiful,” Barnes reassured her, Lopez recalled. The entire makeup routine had to change because Lopez acknowledged that the new hair colour would not go well with her usual lipsticks.

Lopez claimed to have experienced a profound change in character. “My hands moved differently. My body was different. Colours that I wore,” she told Stern.

About Jennifer Lopez’s Character in Kiss of the Spider Woman

Lopez portrays Ingrid Luna in the 1993 Broadway musical’s film adaptation, Kiss of the Spider Woman. The movie follows the lives of two inmates in a harsh South American jail: Diego Luna plays a Marxist revolutionary, and Tonatiuh plays a gay window dresser who has been imprisoned for “immoral behaviour.”

The two protagonists envision a Hollywood musical featuring Lopez’s alter ego, Ingrid Luna — who is represented by her dazzling new appearance — as a way to escape their depressing reality.

Lopez’s blond makeover has narrative significance since Ingrid Luna’s appearance is meant to be glitzy, elegant, and drastically different from the depressing surroundings of the convicts. Her dedication to playing the character can be seen by her readiness to go through a complete visual makeover.