Kudos to J. Lo: The Hard-Working Dual Threat Finally Gets Some Respect

As if she isn’t getting enough attention these days for her role in the new film Hustlers, Jennifer Lopez proved this week that when you’re hot, you’re really hot. She caused a sensation by closing the Versace show in Milan wearing a green dress with a plunging-to-the-belly-button neckline that was almost identical to the dress that helped make her a star 19 years ago.  Lopez “looked like she hadn’t aged a day as she strutted down the runway” noted Page Six. 

Playing Ramona, a world-weary stripper, in Hustlers—which opened as the biggest box office hit the weekend before last, with a majority-female viewership—Lopez shows much more of her great 50-year-old body. But it’s not how she looks in a bikini that makes J. Lo stand out in the film. She has made Ramona a deeply realized character. She is loving and big-sisterly to vulnerable Destiny, played by Constance Wu, whom she takes under her wing (and, literally, under her fur coat) but also abidingly tough and pragmatic.