well Owen, Maluma congratulations and welcome to the press conference at the
global press conference for Marry Me and i'll start with a very simple question you
both play two characters that are key in the life of a musical superstar kat is charlie
and bastian how do you see them and what do you like the most about them i'll start with you owen
well i think just from that kind of introduction we were also kidding earlier just the names
bastion charlie i think you've got a lot of character information just from that charlie's
sort of ordinary kind of i guess that would be sort of a man of the people
and um and then you know bastion is this uh singing sensation and uh engaged to kat valdez and
sort of through circumstance somehow i wind up there at the concert and um you know the next
thing you know i'm on stage uh getting married and it's such a it was it's such a leap of faith
that when you read it you're kind of i wonder how that's gonna work but yet in the movie sort of
everything that leads up to it i think you kind of go along with it i felt it was kind of believable
how about you bastian yeah man i think the the character in the movie is great perfect for my
first movie too you know that is the first time that i do this kind of acting um and i felt pretty
related to the to the character asmaluma right because we have this similar things we love we
both love music we both love touring performances and everything so i felt pretty connected but
at the end of the movie uh you can tell that i don't really like that bastion right because it's
super douchebag right he he did a awful thing you know just trying to to be with with cat's
assistant right and and and that's the only part that i don't get related to the
to the to the character of course but yeah man i enjoyed it i enjoyed a lot the experience of being
in the movie and and and everything was great even the music making the music was was beautiful too
uh maluma when you both have great chemistry on screen with jennifer lopez how was it to work so
closely with her on this feel-good romantic musical comedy i'll start with you maluma
it was great man i i felt comfortable you know because for being like my first movie i
was getting kind of nervous you know i i don't know what's gonna happen i didn't know how how
it worked you know like it was my first time and then when when i was there with jennifer she was
like yo we're gonna do this you're gonna kill it uh just get a focus you know she gave me a bunch
of advices also also owen he was there for me the first scene i remember that i had to yell at him
like crazy and saying bad words in the first scene that we were shooting together and then
he at the end of the of the scene he came to me and he was like yo man i really felt that acting
and for me it meant it meant the work for me you know because it was my first scene and and of
course i was kind of nervous and everything so so yeah working with jennifer and the whole team was
was beautiful everything everything was organic everything was was natural too what about you and
how was your experience with jennifer this um this time around again i i really enjoyed it was it
was that the scene where you say to me like you're just says fan yeah you think you are just a fan
that was our first scene together man i like seeing that because they show that scene in
the preview and it always makes me laugh because charlie's like no i'm not a fan and then then you
see jen and then i say well i am now and i feel like in that scene you know is sort of the whole
movie like you know what what i like is that they don't stack the deck against any character and
it's not like bad i don't know you feel you sort of understand them and um you kind of understand
uh everybody makes mistakes and things and then charlie you can kind of relate to um
and then as for kind of working with jen for me it was very relaxing i think because jen you know
it was nice because she kind of assumed so many responsibilities uh was kind of like i didn't
have to worry about anything uh she she and elaine were kind of you know i think they had to sort of
bear the brunt of kind of you know the stress of everything but for me it just and a lot of
times when you work on a movie you kind of hear it in your head or you have casting ideas and um
and with this everything the way i sort of heard it and imagined it i felt like the casting was
just everybody was just really uh spot on and um i don't know it was a relaxing movie for me because
i wasn't worried about anything i felt it was you know that it was working while we were doing it
i feel i feel the same after the after the first scene you know because i yell at you
so after after that like everything was perfect you know yeah thank god that was the first scene
of course music is very important in this movie uh maluma and there's a specific question for
you would say what was it why was it important for you to be a part of the soundtrack and to
bring your latin essence into it too well first of all because i love singing you know i love
touring i love performing i've been doing this for for 10 years in a row almost so i wanted to
be part of the soundtrack not even acting i wanted to to bring my latino culture to the
movie too because i know that there is a lot of people from latin america they're gonna they're
gonna feel attached to the movie too you know not only because the way we're acting uh we're
talking about this main character that is called bastian and he's from latin america and it didn't
happen often you know so so for me it was pretty important to to show the world that that we as
latin people we feel proud of it too and we can we can make it in the big screen too you know
and is it true that jennifer came to your concert and that that's in the movie
yeah yeah yeah i had i had i was touring actually i was touring the in those those months i was
shooting the movie i was throwing here in the states and well the idea just came to the table to
bring jennifer to the concert and maybe we could shoot one of the scenes there and and it was a
great idea i mean it was kind of hard because it was in the middle of the concert so i had to get
ready uh and mike for the for the for the movie and then i had the other the other microphone
that was for me for the concert and then cameras they were another camera from the movie there
were cameras for the concert you know everything was like like crazy people were were yelling at
the uh the sound because they they were not understanding what was going on you know
but that was beautiful everything was worth it uh the scene for me that scene is one of my favorites
to be honest we were performing marry me the main track of the movie there is the madison
square garden full sold out 18 000 people so so yeah it was it was it was pretty nice oh and you
were mentioning before how charlie is this kind of normal guy and they're asking here that the
movie really plays into the idea that opposites uh attract do you believe that in real life
well to an extent i think opposites in a sense from you know different uh backgrounds and
and seemingly you know very different but i i think in terms of your spirit um i think there
has to be some sort of overlap in in um you know either in humor or the way you look at the world
or your what you're curious about or sense of adventure and um and so in those ways um
i think sometimes it helps to have a little bit of overlap um you know for that attraction to work
following up on that um cat obviously takes a big leap of faith when she
marries charlie what's the biggest leap of faith you've taken question for both of you
um gosh um i think you know for me i i did not study acting and sort of like
maloom was saying i didn't you know go to school for it i was an english major
but i always loved movies and um and i liked writing and so when my friend and i started
writing a movie together uh believing that i could act in it i don't know that i did necessarily but
it was more sort of you know my friend's belief that uh that i could do it and then people sort of
but i i kind of expected people to not oh you know because growing up in dallas if
you had said like oh i want to be in movies i think people would have almost laughed at
you like yeah who doesn't want to be in movies but um i i think that uh yeah that sort of uh
believing that i could uh you know maybe have a career uh doing something creative um
that was a big uh that's not the life that most people lead and so that that was a leap of faith
what about you well for me for sure is when i quit soccer i used to play soccer when i was
16 years old and my dad he thought that i was gonna be a professional soccer player also my
whole family my friends everybody because yeah that's what i wanted to be you know but then i
started writing my own songs i wanted to to write music you know and and and start creating music
then i went to the studio for the first time and i just fall in love with it and i just i just quick
soccer because i fall in love with the art and and i just i just when when i went to the studio
for the first time i knew that that was the thing that i was gonna do for the rest of my life right
so then i told i told my dad he got mad of course because imagine uh my big sometimes i i was
thinking that my my dad he used to think that my dreams they were too big you know he was like yo
are you sure you want to be a a global latin superstar are you sure you want to do that you can
go to college it's easier if you go to college and maybe i don't know you you start being a doctor or
whatever it is right and i was like no dad trust me this is what i want to do this is what what
i really love i love making music right and for me that that was the the break point when when i quit
soccer and i started making music but acting also comes natural to you would you like to
continue making movies maybe also in different genres oh yeah for sure i love the experience
i love experience right now in my life i'm in uh i'm in a spot that i just want to do what
i love man and acting was for sure one of the things that i love the most so yeah i'm
looking forward for new options new i don't know new paths let's see what what happens
speaking of the auctions uh owen did a maluma or jennifer at any time ask you to sing or dance
well you know uh i i'm not on the soundtrack for uh for this movie i i did actually have a song
on starsky and hutch and uh and i remember that was a real challenge for the producer
uh he said that i broke three auto-tune machines
to um trying to get my voice right so i'm not unfortunately i'm not a natural singer
i wanna i just wanna thank you for both of you for making this movie which is
fun which is romantic which is feel good which is everything we really need today thank you
so much both of you and congratulations thank you have a wonderful rest of the day