Jennifer Lopez reveals #MeToo moment: 'It could have gone either way for me'
Jennifer Lopez has revealed her own #MeToo moment, saying a director once asked her to undress in front of him.
"I haven't been abused in the way some women have," she told Harper's Bazaar, about the wave of accusations that have rocked Hollywood since last October's Harvey Weinstein scandal.
"But have I been told by a director to take off my shirt and show my boobs? Yes, I have. But did I do it? No, I did not."
The 48-year-old said she feared she'd hurt her work prospects in the moment.
"When I did speak up, I was terrified. I remember my heart beating out of my chest, thinking, 'What did I do? This man is hiring me!' It was one of my first movies," Lopez told the magazine.
"But in my mind I knew the behaviour wasn't right. It could have gone either way for me. But I think ultimately the Bronx in me was like, 'Nah, we're not having it.'"
Lopez, who has worked sporadically onscreen amid her music career and a live residency at Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood resort, will next be seen in the comedy Second Act, produced by her company Nuyorican Productions.
She's also developing a film adaptation of the popular '90s PC game Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? and a HBO TV series on notorious Colombian drug lord, the so-called 'Cocaine Godmother', Griselda Blanco.
The star was listed among Hollywood's highest-paid women of 2017 by Forbes, earning around $US38 million from her production gigs, "six-figure nightly fee" in Vegas, and endorsements for the likes of L'Oreal.
Rob Moran is an Entertainment reporter for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane Times.
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