- Hey everyone.
Thank you for watching In Studio.
We are here with Jennifer Lopez.
How are you today?
- I'm great.
- Thanks for coming in.
(laughing)
You got your coffee.
You're gonna hang out.
- I do, we're doing being cas right now.
- Cas, this is a very cas talk.
So I'm just gonna talk about you have a new song out,
World of Dance is about to premiere,
but I want to talk about Shades of Blue.
So, playing Harlee, what about that character
has impacted you the most over the years, I guess?
- I mean, I've played her for three years.
This season that you're about to see is probably
the most intense of the three.
And I don't know, we announced it as our last season,
and it was so bittersweet for me
because I hated having to leave this character.
She, honestly, of all of the movies
and things that I've done is a character
that has really kind of permeated my soul in a way
that helped me grow and look at life differently
and be stronger because she's so much stronger
and tougher than I am (laughs) in any way, shape, or form.
It was just a really special character to play.
She was so complex and so dedicated and committed
to her daughter and her family and her cop family
and still so coloring outside the lines of morality
and ethics and what's right and what's wrong.
And it was just a pleasure.
For an actress, it was like a dream role.
And I will miss her.
I will really miss her.
- That's awesome. - Yeah.
- Is there, do you think you'll ever get
a role like that again where it's like a Harley character?
- I hope so.
I hope so, I mean, in a different way.
In a different way because I really feel like I did that
and I did it for three years.
And being in that skin for 12 to 16 hours a day,
five days a week for six to seven months out of the year,
it does something to you.
And hopefully I'll get something that I,
yes, I absolutely will do many things
that I enjoy like that, but how it will affect me,
I don't know.
I know that this one did.
I know that this one did
and it made me a stronger, better person.
Made me look at life a little bit different, you know?
- That's really great.
Now, your new song dropped last week.
Music video was great.
- Thank you. - It was crazy.
- Thank you (laughs).
- What was shooting that music video like?
- It was fun (laughs).
- And how was it different than I guess
your other resume of music videos?
- (laughs) I know.
I know, all so many, yeah. - The long list.
- This was really fun.
I think it was one I was most excited about in a long time
to do this video and the whole idea of this kind of
all these queens coming together
and talking about this guy who wants to propose.
- Do you have a favorite queen in there?
- Who wants to propose to you.
I mean, I love the Asian queen.
You couldn't see her face
because they put this thing on her face,
but it was so gangster.
It was so amazing.
♪ Me tratas como una princesa me das lo que pido ♪
♪ Tú tienes el bate y la fuerza que yo necesito ♪
But all of them.
The African queen looked, bleh, I mean, the whole thing.
All of them, all of them, all of them were just amazing.
The Nordic queen, all this.
I just felt like that whole idea
of all these queens coming together and this one king
having to fight before he could even
get down on a knee to propose to her.
It was just very symbolic of
how we should look at ourselves,
that we're not just queens, we're goddesses
and people have to fight to be in your life.
And you have to understand your worth and your value.
And it was a lot of fun to do and kind of put that out there
and understand that that's what the song is about.
- That's awesome.
Now, are you recording other new music right now?
Are you in the studio?
- Yeah, I just, I have another song that's gonna come out
in the next couple weeks.
I think around, in the middle of May
with Cardi B and Khaled called Dinero.
I'm about women speaking up and demanding what they want.
I want my ring, I want my money, you know what I mean?
It's just like, what's up.
And I feel like that's where the world is at right now
and I'm always very influenced by, obviously in my music,
what's going on in my life, but in the world.
And it just feels like that.
It's like we don't have to mince words anymore.
We found our voice, we're being strong,
we're standing up for ourselves,
and how do you make that into fun, danceable music?
- That's so great.
Speaking of dance, World of Dance about to premiere.
What's the best part of being back for season two,
and what were the conversations like going into this season?
Kind of keep it different even though--
- You know we were like--
- Last season was, everyone loved it.
- It's gotta be better than last year!
That's what the conversations were like (laughs).
What are we gonna do?
And it was just about scouring
and really finding the right talent.
And the conversations really were just like
how do we make it better than last year?
Because the first season was so phenomenal
and it so far exceeded all of our expectations (laughs)
that we were like, oh crap.
Now we have to make it even better this time.
But it was good because now everybody knew what the show was
so we attracted a lot more talent than even the first year.
We all kind of were more in our comfort zone
and knew what we had to do.
And it was just, everybody was like,
okay now we know what we're doing.
The first time it's kind of like a trial thing (laughs).
And it was like, oh, it worked!
It was great!
Now it's, now we're really gonna kick into high gear.
- Now, season one you guys filmed it without any of you guys
dancing or without you, Derek, NE-YO, and Jenna dancing.
Season two, are you guys dancing together?
- We dance a little bit in a promo,
but we tried last year, but they didn't,
I don't know what happened.
- It got cut? (laughs)
- No, it didn't get cut.
It was for a, we did it at my house,
and I just don't think that it was just like,
it wasn't enough for what the show was.
And then we were like, no, we really have to do something.
We can't just play at doing something.
So this year we planned something.
- That's great. - Yeah.
- Can't wait to watch.