TONY DURAN

Asking Jennifer López to comment on the state of our planet gets her chatting a little bit more than I’ve ever heard her say before. “The world right now makes me very nervous,” she says nervously. “I don’t like to talk much about politics because I always feel that when celebrities start talking about politics it gets very weird, but you know, just like anybody else, any other person who has a family that they love, you’re like ‘Oh, my God, what’s going on here?’ I don’t know when all of this is going to stop and when are things going to change and are we going to look back on this period in time and be like ‘God, we really messed up?’ I just don’t want that to happen, but it feels like it’s happening right now.”

I then ask Jennifer the one question everyone keeps asking her: where’s the baby? “Yeah, that would be nice,” she says wistfully. “That would be nice for sure. I feel that will happen naturally when it does.”

As I keep staring at her, genuinely intrigued by the otherworldly perfection that is her face, I again touch upon the notion that Jennifer López, the cultural and iconic figure, matters to Hispanics. I mean, if you live in Uganda or China, Jennifer may very well be the only Hispanic person you know. “It’s harder for us [Hispanics],” Jennifer says. “It definitely is. I do realize that I do represent a whole culture. That’s why I’m more happy now because I’m more conscious of the choices I make.”