Lucy Paez is recounting her audition for the role of Jennifer Lopez’s daughter in “The Mother”. In 2021, the 14-year-old actress was about to head into a movie theatre to watch “Cruella”, starring Emma Stone, when she got a call from her manager about a “huge audition” for a “really big movie” with Lopez.
She immediately left the theatre to go home and record her very first self-tape, which can be viewed here. “Of course I was going to jump at the opportunity,” Paez told Tudum of the new action thriller.
After partaking in a few Zoom meetings with director, Niki Caro, Paez caught a flight from her home in Houston to Los Angeles to meet with Lopez. “I normally don’t get anxious when I do auditions but then I came into the room.
I saw Jennifer’s daughter sitting there and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. I’m about to play Jennifer’s daughter in front of her real-life daughter,'” she recalled. “You know, this is a huge responsibility.” READ MORE: Jennifer Lopez Is An Assassin Protecting Her Daughter In ‘The Mother’ Trailer Paez, who was born in the same year as Lopez’s daughter Emme, 15, then began doing the scene with the famous mom. “She was in full Mother mode,” the young actress said of Lopez, who plays an assassin that comes out of hiding to protect her daughter Zoe (Paez), whom she gave up 12 years earlier. “She was throwing the chair, screaming a little bit — not a little bit, she was screaming a lot — taking the gun out of my hand,” she continued. “Jennifer really helped me bring myself to that level because she was a force.” However, Lopez revealed that she wasn’t just running lines with Paez, she was actually testing her to see if she would “choke under pressure.” READ MORE: Jennifer Lopez Says Landing The
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