Jennifer Lopez fans were left stunned at the screening of her latest movie "Unstoppable" when an interviewer decided to bring up one of Hollywood's biggest taboos: age.
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00:00Interesting moment for JLo who
00:03Found herself on the receiving end of what a lot of people feel is a major taboo
00:09Maybe in society in general, but especially in Hollywood
00:12I have a problem with this but don't you don't bring up a woman's age. She was doing an interview
00:18at an event with variety and
00:21The interviewer who we should say we're gonna you're gonna hear what he said here
00:25But we should say to in fairness has a good relationship with JLo has a long her. Yeah for decades
00:31We've had him on Tim's you left
00:32yes, and in fact, that's what he wanted to talk about the the length of her career and the
00:38Success she's had in Hollywood. It's just the words he used really struck the audience as
00:46Did he really say that watch
00:55I
01:18Because I want to say thank you
01:26You guys have been here with me what a journey this has been and I honestly feel
01:33That the best is yet to come
01:36Well, so here's the thing
01:38There are JLo make it clear that Clayton the guy who was doing the doing the interview
01:43But she said you don't have to apologize. She got it in the tone that it was but here
01:48Here's my thing about it. We have talked for several years now
01:52Every time we get a picture of JLo we say, oh my god, she looks so amazing. She's 52. She's 53
01:57We've done we've done this with men. We've done this with women and
02:02You are if you think that it is done as much with men you are
02:06Sore, we talk about this all the time. So and so is getting we were harsher when we talk about men really we can be
02:13Yeah, what really tell me when when were we? I don't want to men. Do you know how old Brad Pitt is?
02:17Do you know how old Brad Pitt is? Um, he's 60. How can we talk about that?
02:21Brad Pitt looks 20 years old and we've also now it is about no. No, we've talked about that that you talk about it when
02:29Someone looks no man
02:31You know man
02:31you typically see without a shirt on like you will see an older guy like at the beach with no shirt on me go dad bod
02:37Dad, but like Brad Pitt has a dad bod. We don't see like older
02:41We only see their face
02:41so we don't talk about like women when they are getting older like when their age as much because
02:46They don't look like their face with the man
02:49That we only talk about their faces because we just played this video JLo last week
02:54Well, that's right, and we weren't just talking about when you talk about a dad bod. What are you talking about?
02:59You're saying somebody's out of shape. You're literally saying he's out of shape. He's out of shape
03:05You never said you don't say that about him
03:07So the point is it's like what where is the equality when it comes to you can talk about this sex?
03:13But you can't talk about that sex if we're supposed to be equal. I mean
03:18Hi, my name is Anita Brand from Claremont, South Africa. It's disappointing but not surprising
03:25There's definitely a double standard in the industry of how women and men are treated
03:31JLo's age should not even be a topic her talent her work ethic and her
03:38Career longevity just speaks for itself
03:42comments like this undermine her
03:44accomplishments and highlight how
03:47Far we still are from
03:50moving past these
03:52narratives
03:53But age is part of life
03:56Age is part of life. Why is it so such a dirty thing to say somebody's 55? It's not
04:03it is if
04:05Okay, all I'm thinking is
04:08About what JLo looks like a 55. I'm 55. All right, what does anyone feel?
04:17You