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Jennifer Lopez Says She Had to Fight to Get Her Role in The Wedding Planner

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The Wedding Planner, a 2001 co-starring Matthew McConaughey. It was a bonafide hit, opening at number one at the box office the same week Lopez's album, J.Lo, topped the charts.

To this day, Lopez is still the only entertainer in history to have a number one album and movie at the same time. But she almost wasn't in .

Lopez opened up about fighting to get the role in a new interview for Variety's Power of Women series. In it, she talks about being typecast early on as the “maid” and “dishwasher” and desperately wanting to beak out of that mold. "I was like, 'I don't want to do that,' " Lopez explained. "I had to kind of break out of that and convince somebody to put me in the first romantic comedy, which I think was The Wedding.

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