Jack Nicholson's five-year battle over Jennifer Lopez's arse
Jack Nicholson knows how to hold a grudge, with the legendary actor spending half a decade arguing over Jennifer Lopez's rear end.
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Film » Cutting Room Floor
Sat 1 February 2025 3:30, UK
Given his reputation as one of Hollywoodâs most legendary lotharios, ladiesâ men, and hard-partying hell-raisers, it probably doesnât raise an eyebrow that Jack Nicholson spent years locked in a heated debate with a close friend and regular collaborator over somebodyâs arse.
Not just anybodyâs arse, either, but Jennifer Lopezâs rear end. Knowing that Nicholson was once the industryâs leading source of drink, drugs, and sex-fuelled debauchery, itâs reasonable to assume that something seedy was afoot when the actor spent five years battling over a pair of cheeks. However, it wasnât anywhere near as near-the-knuckle as his reputation would suggest.
When Nicholson finds a filmmaker he enjoys working with, heâs often made a point of reuniting with them. Whether itâs Roger Corman, James L Brooks, Monte Hellman, or Rob Reiner, the three-time Academy Award winner tends to return to auteurs who know how to bring out the best in him.
That especially applies to Bob Rafelson, a longtime associate of Nicholsonâs who directed him in Head, Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Man Trouble. However, their sixth picture together turned out to be their last, although there are no guarantees it was Lopezâs posterior that proved to be the breaking point of their bond.
1996âs Blood and Wine was an important movie in a different way after it convinced Michael Caine that he didnât want to retire from acting after all. For Lopez, it was her final screen appearance before her breakthrough turn in the biopic Selena. Playing the mistress of Nicholsonâs character, he was adamant that one particular scene demanded to be in the movie.
âThe arguments were simple, and the onward discussion was simple,â he told Peter Bogdanovich. âJennifer Lopez was going to be famous for her ass. When Bob overslept, we staged the short dance number in the picture with my hands on her ass in an inset. He wouldnât put it in the picture. I said, âBob, youâre insane.'â
Wildly misogynistic, absolutely, but nonetheless on-brand for Nicholson. âThat was the first five years of the discussion,â he continued. âWhich then transformed into: the studio made him take it out. I said, âIsnât it a little late to tell me?â Now, another few years go by, and not only didnât the studio take it out, but his new argument is, âYouâre crazy; itâs in the pictureâ. Fortunately, it came on TV; I looked, itâs not in the picture.â
Objectification is hardly a new thing in Hollywood, but did Nicholson really have to spend years going back and forth with Rafelson and repeatedly voicing his dissatisfaction with a shot that only runs for a couple of seconds at most being excluded from the theatrical and televised versions of Blood and Wine? Absolutely not, even if itâs a very Nicholson-esque thing to hold a grudge over.
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