Overview

• Lopez shared the behind-the-scenes detail during a post-screening Q&A this week, where she received a standing ovation.
• She recalled auditioning for 1996’s Evita and learning from director Alan Parker that Madonna already had the part.
• Director Bill Condon said roughly 800 actors were considered before casting Tonatiuh, who stars alongside Diego Luna and Lopez.
• The film premiered at Sundance earlier this year and will open in U.S. theaters on October 10 via Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate and LD Entertainment.
• The adaptation draws from Manuel Puig’s novel and the Kander & Ebb/Terrence McNally musical, with Lopez portraying a screen siren central to the story’s imagined escapism.