so jennifer uh you play musical superstar kat valdez said marry me uh who is she in your eyes
and how does her life change from the moment she decides to follow the impulse to marry a stranger
i mean to me in my eyes kat valdez is a very kind of self-assured you know artist
recording artist veteran in the in the industry who has built herself you know into something
that uh and her life into something that you know she's proud of but it also
in a way because of her personal life has has become a bit unsatisfying and um i think for her
you know there's a there's a beautiful journey here once owen comes into her life and you know
the character that owen plays charlie comes into her life and really changes it forever changes
her perspective changes her ideas of being caught sometimes you feel kind of caught like okay i'm
trapped in this fame i'm trapped in this life this is all i can do and i really don't get to have
a life like everybody else or a love like everybody else and i think what owen teaches
her owen's character character teaches her is that she can and that it is possible
and that there is hope for her and she could have a real love and a real home which she's never had
music of course is a key element of the movie can you talk about the experience of making an album
and a movie at the same time yeah yeah that was a first for me which was such a pleasure it's
like my two worlds coming together but making the album it was it was great because you know i got
to they they really allowed me to input into where and when and what these musical moments would be
for this character they really look to me to be like okay how would this be and how could we make
this feel real and and um and actually picking the music for the arc of the characters there's
nobody who understood the character more than i did and nobody who understood what you know
it was to be kind of a musical art artist and be this person within this movie and so picking the
songs for the moment was it was such a pleasure for me and then to have maluma you know kind of
fill in the blanks for his character and he did such a great job with the two songs that he did
and segundo for the moments that he introduces himself and then for the moment where he's
asking for a second chance you know um i always thought like there's a two on the nose and then
when i heard the song and what he did with what he came up with i was so pleased and i felt the
same way with all of the songs love of my life after love on my way the title song marry me i
just felt like we really found the characters within those songs speaking of the character
people would like to know how much of cats is in you and how much of you is in cat i think
there's a lot of of us in each other there is i mean i i under you know i there wasn't a
this wasn't a role where i had to research what it was like to be
a famous recording artist who does branding and who has all that i understand what all of that
is already i think the difficult part was kind of the meta part which was you know the idea of um
showing what it's really like inside my bedroom when something goes wrong and you suffer a
heartbreak like this in front of the whole world and the media kind of goes to town on you you know
to kind of unearth the story and understand it and kind of poke fun at it and you know in that
way and what that really feels like and in some of those moments you know even with scenes uh with me
and owen where he's asking like don't you want to just give up on the whole love thing you know um
you know it was just that philosophy that she has like i understand it's like no if there's a one
in a billion chance no matter what the numbers are you're a math teacher you know that's worth
it that's worth it because i think what she is craving is is is that love and that home
and so there was a lot of moments there where we i was able to bring a truth to the character in
the in the emotional life that was really authentic and real you were mentioning a
moment ago though you talked about those songs those great songs that you recorded with maluma
of course people are asking can we expect more music from you and maluma in the future
it's funny because right after the movie we did pati and lonely which bhatti wound up being
in the movie and we did them kind of as cat and bastion after we had finished the album but that
one ended up coming out before because the movie was pushed back before because of the pandemic and
it was just like but i mean i think we'll always you know look for opportunities to work together
we have a good musical chemistry um doing these songs that marry me is one of my favorite duets
i've ever done um with anyone and uh he is just he's a great songwriter and a great interpreter
of song and so um i would i would love to i would love to be able to do more together
another great question here jennifer you're so multi-talented what's something you can't do
there's so much i can't do we're not even going to get into it there's not enough time in this press
conference but i do feel very lucky to be able to do all the things that i do i feel like i'm at a
point in my career where i'm like kind of hitting my stride with what i know my abilities to be and
being confident in that whereas when i was younger i was a little bit more
you know insecure and kind of finding my way it's great to be at a point in my life where i feel
that uh really i know myself i know myself and i i trust myself um but there's there's definitely
a lot of things i cannot do i'm i really suck i always say this at basketball of all things
you've starred in some you have started some memorable romantic comedies
um is this a homecoming of sorts for you and do you have a special place in your heart for the
genre of the romantic comedy yes i do and i think that's why i've done so many throughout my career
um it's because i as a moviegoer love romantic comedies those are some of my favorite movies
of all time whether it's you know when harry met sally or prelude to a kiss or
any of these type of movies the meg ryan era and the julia roberts all of those you know
uh movies is what i grew up on in a way and i love them so much and so it is kind of a homecoming for
me because i haven't done one in a few years and then yes this year i did two and i think i'll have
two coming out i have you know this one marry me and then shotgun wedding will be out at some point
which i did with josh dumel um so i'm i'm excited to be able to to do a couple yeah for sure i love
it but following up on that they're asking is there a certain element in a romantic comedy
script that makes you want to say i want to do this oh specifically in a thing i think
you know it's hard to reinvent it every time like how do you make it different than the last one
because we kind of always know that two people are going to wind up together and that's going to be
the end and it's just like it's it's really about how interesting the journey is and the the um the
kind of interaction between the two characters and how interesting that is and if that's written well
that's what makes me want to do it we have valentine's day coming up of course so that timing
couldn't be better for the movie um but they're asking what's the ideal valentine's day for you
you know the ideal valentine's day for me is just me and my partner alone um in a place
where we don't have to worry about people watching us or um you know where it wouldn't
be a bunch of paparazzi where we can have some private moments and really talk about life and
and and love and just really appreciating uh some the company and and being in love and being
together uh marry me has some really unforgettable songs people want to know people want to know if
you have a favorite one and why oh it's hard it's hard i mean uh you know i could think of
like right off the top of my head i love nobody's watching us i l so much because i really relate
to it i the what i was just talking about love of my life after love marry me uh i mean all
of it all of it but i think on my way for me is such a life song it's like one of those
perfect sentiments in a song yes it fit well in the movie but i just thought it was a song that
everybody could relate to because we all feel like the mistakes we make are so tragic in our lives
and this is really so hopeful because it says that every single mistake that i made was leading me
down a yellow brick road to exactly where i needed to be and where i wanted to be and i do believe in
that in life and so i would have to say if i had to figure a favorite child which i would never do
it would be on my way well speaking of fitting well the movement has amazing fashion and they
want to know do you have a favorite outfit oh my god there was again so many great outfits
in that movie let me just think for a second because i haven't seen it in a few months um
obviously the wedding dress by zuhair murad was a knockout um it was very uncomfortable to wear for
the four days that we shot those scenes every time i had to wear it it was so tight on me um
but there was there was a lot there was a i'm trying to think of some of the scenes
i loved i love the sally lapont lapointe um outfit the suede kind of coral colored pants and sweater
and cap during on my way i thought that that was a beautiful setting and um again kind of a
triumphant moment in the movie where she kind of comes into her own with the music and has written
a song um from this journey that she had into her real life and you really feel her power um of like
arriving somewhere new in her life because of this love that she has for this person
just to wrap it up social media is important in the film and cat has cat has to deal with the
pressures of social media right that's a very real thing today it is a real thing you know it
used to be just the tabloids or the press and now it's social media as well which can be you know
even just as if not even more anxiety provoking um for people in the public eye but i think um
that's what also makes this one a little bit more modern is that you you have that element in it of
what that's like to have you know a heartbreak and a huge embarrassment in front of the world and how
it travels so quickly like before it was like oh it's going to come out the story is going to come
out this is what's gonna happen well we'll see if it gets picked up but it's like there's no doubt
if something happens somebody's gonna see it they're gonna get it on camera they're gonna
talk about it they're gonna share it it's just like you know and navigating that as a person in
the public eye is is can be tricky and especially when you know difficult things happen in your life
like cat suffers in the beginning of this movie which i don't wish on anybody
well thank you so much you're right the movie is very now but at the same time i think it has
that feel of these great classic romantic comedies it has it all and amazing music
thank you for everything you've done to make it possible thank you so much
and congratulations thank you bye everybody everybody else
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