The “Selena” movie, starring Jennifer Lopez, returns to theaters 0:37 (CNN Spanish) – 25 years ago the biographical film “Selena”, in which the life and death of “La Reina del Tex- Mex”, was released in theaters in the United States. The film came just two years after Selena Quintanilla’s tragic death at the hands of Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club. “The great success of this film is due to the magnificent spirit of a young woman who [nos dejó] too soon,” Gregory Nava, director and writer of “Selena,” told Pop Zone CNN. As part of the celebration for the quarter century since its premiere, the company Iconic Events decided to bring the film back to theaters. A decision that , says Nava, constitutes a miracle. “Tell me! A movie in theaters again [tras] 25 years, never happens in history, never. It is an example of Selena’s light, because in her life she overcame incredible obstacles and now that light is still overcoming obstacles, in the case of the movie Selena,” Nava explained to Zona Pop CNN. The movie, which premiered in 1997 , marks Jennifer Lopez’s first leading role in the cinema, a role she played masterfully, which led her to a Golden Globe nomination for best actress a year later.The film was originally released by Warner Bros., part by WarnerMedia. It is considered by the Library of Congress of the United States as one of the classics of the country’s cinema. Worldwide, the film collected a box office of US$ 35.1 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo. The two Mexican girls who made it possible for “Selena ” existed Gregory Nava remembers that many people insisted that he not make the film about the singer. “[Me dijeron] you are a very important director… and I was thinking of not making the film,” he tells Pop Zone CNN. However, two Mexican girls -without knowing it- were the engine for Nava to venture to create one of the biographical films that more have permeated popular culture, not only in the United States, but in Latin America: “I was walking in Los Angeles, near my house, and I found two angels, two Mexican girls, one 8 years old or 10 years old and they had t-shirts with pictures of Selena on them,” she recalls. “I asked them why do they want Selena? And they told me because she looks like us. And at that moment I knew that they did not have a princess, they did not have an image like them, with their brown skin on the screen. That moment touched my heart and I decided to make the movie for them,” he explains. Why did you choose Jennifer Lopez to play Selena? Since the death of “The Queen of Tex-Mex,” there have been movies and series about her life, but few have managed to penetrate, or at least the main character, as Jennifer Lopez’s performance did.Although his choice was criticized, Nava downplayed it, saying that “that is very common in cinema.”For the director, Lopez was the “perfect” woman for the role,” she says. “She’s considered one of the best performances in the entire history of musical biographies,” she explains. Nava explains that, although she had worked with Lopez on the film My Family, and that her performance in that film had been excellent, he could not immediately offer the role to the actress, he had to go through the famous auditions, “The Quintanilla family and Warner Bros. wanted to see her, she had to audition for that role”, he explains. “Thousands and thousands of young so many actresses came to Chicago, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Miami to audition,” he recalls. Of them they chose 20 and the one who captivated the team was Jennifer López. The scene that moved JLo and his director The film begins with Selena’s last concert, a tremendous full house at the Houston Astrodome. The image of Selena wearing a maroon jumpsuit with glitter went down in history after that concert. And precisely that was the scene with which the tape opens. “35,000 people came for free to fill the stadium,” recalls Nava. “And they stayed all day! They came for love and that’s what Selena’s spirit inspires in everyone, love.” After shooting this scene and experiencing the emotion of the public that came as an extra, the crying, the screaming, Nava and López hugged each other and cried, she recalls. “For me the moment in the stadium shooting the Houston Astrodome concert scene with thirty-five thousand people celebrating, crying, the emotion of that moment. Jennifer, imagine in front of 35,000 people, everyone was screaming and the family [de Selena] I was there,” he says. “After we shot that scene, Jennifer and I were together hugging each other. She and I, crying from the emotion of having captured that moment in Selena’s life and felt the spirit and light of Selena in that moment,” she explains. Are you interested in reliving the “Selena” experience 25 years later? If you are In the United States, you can buy tickets through Selena25anniversary.com.
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