BEN THERE, DONE THAT
Sstar takes her work home with her. J.Lo (photo) personally policed the red carpet at a Roxy Hotel premiere of her NBC cop show when one reporter tried to ask too many questions. “No, you’ve had a turn, who else has a question?” she snapped at one inquisitor. The 47-year-old Bronx native then admitted that playing a cop has made more empathetic toward New York’s Finest. “Oh, yeah, whenever you play a character you have to love them in a sense and understand them completely,” she said. “Being in law enforcement and having to keep the peace, all that entails is so difficult, it’s such a hard life.” Lopez understands how some cops try and do the right thing, but themselves end up on the wrong side of the law. “What’s a good cop, what’s a bad cop?” she asked. “It’s difficult, I think, for them.” According to Lopez, paparazzi got on her bad side earlier this week when photos of her taking a selfie while not one, but two, soaking security guards shielded her with umbrellas. She calls the photo, which seems to have been taken outside of her Manhattan home, “disrespectful.”
“They upset me because I really feel like I play so fair with the media all the time, and you know I’m super gracious with everybody,” she said. “All I ask (is) for them to stay away from my kids … like, when I go home, let me go home.”
One thing Lopez does bring home after a rough day of filming is battle scars. “You’d be surprised at the different things that give you bumps and bruises when you’re acting,” she said. “It can just be having to slam a door and you don’t realize or having to punch a wall and you’re like, ‘Oh, nothing is really going to happen,’ and afterwards it’ll break your knuckles.” She also plans to punch up her Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood.
“I just finished, like, two days ago, this first run of the year. I was thinking about changing some songs,” she said. “To be honest, I haven’t told anybody yet, not even my team. I was thinking maybe there’s something here that we can update. We’ll see. And I have some Spanish music coming out and maybe an English single here and there coming out, so I might add some new stuff to the show.” Legendary “All That Jazz” star was back on Broadway Wednesday night — as a visitor. The Brooklyn-bred song and dance man (inset) checked out “Come From Away” at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, where it didn’t take long for the show’s stars to spot one of their own. “Early in the intermissionless musical, cast members spotted Vereen in the orchestra and word started spreading among the cast like wildfire,” we’re told. Vereen made his way backstage after the show and gladly signed stage bills.