Respect don’t cost a thing.Jennifer Lopez, 55, was being interviewed by Variety’s Senior Awards Editor, Clayton Davis, on Sunday after a screening of her sports drama “Unstoppable” when he made a random comment about her age.“I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since ‘Selena,'” he said in a clip shared by TMZ, referencing her 1997 role in the biopic about the late Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.Davis then took a moment to reflect on the future and brought up one minor detail that J.Lo’s fans didn’t seem to appreciate.
“I can’t believe that in 30 years we’re going to do a retrospective of this, and you will be 60 by then, which is…” the editor continued as the singer replied, “Wow.”Davis didn’t stop there, joking that Lopez was “getting up there” in age, which elicited gasps from the audience. Lopez slowly began to tilt her head, replying in a quiet tone, “I am,” while someone in the crowd asked, “Did he just say that?”Of course, Davis quickly clarified that it was a “joke.”Lopez appeared to let the comment roll off her back, instead using it as an opportunity to thank the crowd for being with her for a “long time.”“What a journey this has been,” the actress continued, “and I honestly feel that the best is yet to come.”The future is bright for Lopez who took a moment to share how working on “Unstoppable” has shaped who she is.“I honestly feel that my creativity and who I am as an artist is like you said…,” she noted.“I also feel that this for me, was another kind of level of going deeper into who I am as a person or as an artist.
And these type of roles change you.”Lopez has had quite the journey this past year as she filed for divorce from Ben Affleck in August on what would have been the two-year anniversary of their second wedding ceremony.“‘They come to you at times in your life when you need them, and they help you grow and they heal you in a way,” she con...