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Why Jennifer Lopez Financed Her New Music Movie, ‘This Is Me. . .Now: A Love Story,’ Herself · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer Lopez created one of the most ambitious music video
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  Speaker 2: projects the world's ever seen with her new sixty five
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  Speaker 2: minute cinematic musical This Is Me Now, a love story,
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  Speaker 2: which is all the more ambitious because Jado actually financed
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  Speaker 2: it herself. A high budget, high concept project which blends
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  Speaker 2: a rich story with elaborate visuals and razor sharp choreography
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  Speaker 2: interwoven with her new album would have been a risk
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  Speaker 2: simply creatively, but Jayla was so inspired she chose to
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  Speaker 2: back at herself, telling the Hollywood Reporter, everybody thought I
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  Speaker 2: was crazy when I said I would do it. We
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  Speaker 2: did have the financing, and then it fell out. They
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  Speaker 2: pulled out at the last minute. It was the moment
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  Speaker 2: where you go, do we just make a video or
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  Speaker 2: do we go ahead and do this thing. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about whether or not I do this or I just
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  Speaker 2: go make two videos and go the normal route. I
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  Speaker 2: decided to see this vision through. We didn't have endless
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  Speaker 2: funds from a studio, and this was a very independent project,
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  Speaker 2: so it was a very challenging production towards a j
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  Speaker 2: Lo there who took a daring risk and paying for
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  Speaker 2: a new feature link music video. This is Me Now,
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  Speaker 2: a love story, debuts on Prime Tomorrow.
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