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Jennifer Lopez is falling in love on the dance floor in her new movie.
Kiss of the Spider Woman, from writer-director Bill Condon, marks the first-ever movie musical for Lopez, 56. It’s about time, considering the role of movie-within-a-movie star Ingrid Luna seems tailor-made for the triple threat.
A clip from the film (in theaters Oct. 10) shared exclusively with PEOPLE offers a glimpse of Lopez’s stellar singing and dancing alongside dapper costars Tonatiuh and Diego Luna. Crooning John Kander and Fred Ebb’s “Her Name Is Aurora” from their Broadway musical, the actress tangoes with Tonatiuh, 30, in a lavish ballroom, draped in opera gloves and a stunning gold gown (which she recently revealed weighed 50 pounds!).
The sequence is a Technicolor fantasy dreamed up by Tonatiuh’s character, a queer, Argentine political prisoner named Luis Molina narrating flights of fancy to distract himself and his cellmate, Luna’s revolutionary Valentin Arregui. Luis is recalling scenes from Ingrid’s fictional movie Kiss of the Spider Woman — imagining himself and Valentin playing roles in it.
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In the clip, Luna’s Valentin guesses that a movie-within-a-movie character is “not just a genius, he’s tall, dark and handsome.” Tonatiuh’s Luis says, “Of course… He sings and dances too.”
When Valentin dismisses such a musical fantasy as “ridiculous,” it’s Luis who inserts his cellmate into their shared cinematic imagination: “If only you could see him the way I do.” A suavely dressed Luna then emerges on the ballroom floor, making eyes at an intrigued Lopez.
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The new Kiss of the Spider Woman, which first premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, is a reimagining of the stage musical from Kander, Ebb and Terrence McNally that first starred Chita Rivera on Broadway in 1993. It also draws inspiration from the 1985 film starring William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sônia Braga; all are adapted from Argentine writer Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel.
“Her Name Is Aurora” is one of several numbers in the movie that has Lopez showing off her musical theater bona fides. Playing Ingrid — and her movie-within-a-movie characters Aurora and the Spider Woman — the Unstoppable star shot many heavily choreographed scenes with long, uninterrupted takes in the style of the mid-20th century movie musicals Condon, 69, evokes.
“It’s pretty amazing when you do see it and you go, ‘Oh, that was all one shot right there,’” Lopez told PEOPLE at the movie’s Sundance premiere in January. “I didn’t realize that even when I was watching the musicals when I was younger.”
She added that filming in that style was “a little extra challenge but also exhilarating, right? Like you gotta get it right. And when you nail it, everybody’s like — aah!”
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Kiss of the Spider Woman, which counts Lopez, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon among its producers, is in theaters Oct. 10.
