Tonatiuh had been rehearsing Kiss of the Spider Woman for more than a month by the time their costar Jennifer Lopez arrived in New York. Choreographer Sergio Trujillo and director Bill Condon had set aside six hours for her first day, gearing up for an ambitious shoot modeled on lavish, golden age Hollywood musicals. “They were like, ‘This is your mark and then that’s your mark and that’s your mark,’ and she goes, ‘Yeah, okay,’” Tonatiuh recalls. The music started and Lopez hit every mark except for one. She asked the crew to rewind the track before going at it again. “And then she nails it perfectly. I think she finished that entire rehearsal in an hour and a half. I’m like, ‘I’ve been here for a month and a half—and you just killed that?’”
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