Jennifer Lopez on Being Single, Her Kids Going to College & Office Romance with Brett Goldstein

Our first guest tonight is a major motion picture megastar with a new movie about the distinct pleasure of sometimes getting naked at work. It's called Office Romance. It premieres a week from Friday on Netflix. Please say hello to Jennifer Lopez. You probably get that when you come home. Your family stands up and applauds, right? Listen, if my kids come to the door, I feel so lucky. Right, isn't that interesting? You get this from strangers. Well, they're 18 now. They're 18. You're twins, right? Yeah. 18. So are they about to graduate from high school now? Yeah. Tomorrow, one of them graduates. Oh, wow. Wow. Oh, so they go to different schools? Don't talk about it, because they start crying. Oh, right. Will you cry at the ceremony? Yeah. I get that. I've been crying for two months. Yeah. Will you look around at the other parents and see who's not crying and think, I love my children more than you? No. I think all the parents are going to be crying at some point. I hope so. Yeah. So they go to different schools. That's inconvenient, isn't that? Yeah, I mean, it's fine. It is? It's OK? Yeah, I want them to be happy and go where they want to go and do what they want to do. Are they going to different colleges? Yes. They're going to college, yeah? Yes, they're going to college. They're making it very, very inconvenient for you. How dare they? Yeah. So will you, you know, I wonder, because, you know, there's a commotion everywhere you go. Will you be able to, like, move them into their dorms or their rooms? Absolutely. You will? Oh, yeah. I do other things. You will go and, like, you'll go to Target with them and buy them sheets? Yeah. We have sheets. OK. I'm going to take, we have sheets at the house. You'll bring in the sheets. We're going to pack up their rooms here, and they're going to take all the things that they want to take to their dorm. Then they're going to realize that their dorms are too small and that they're going to miss home, I hope, and want to come back real soon. That's my point. You think so? I don't know. It's weird, though, because think about it. Like, when you, you know, you move out to your first place, it's never as nice as your parents' place. Yeah, but you're fine. But you're not just fine. You're glad to be away. You're glad to be on your own, right? Maybe your kids. I was talking about myself, really. No, I remember, listen. I remember being that age and thinking, I couldn't wait to get out in the world and do my thing. Like, I really wanted to. And I was, for months, I was just, all year, people asked me, oh, are you, they're going away to college. It's going to be terrible. I'm like, no, it's going to be great. I want them to go out there. I want them to do what they want to do. They have big dreams. They have things they want to do. It's going to be great. And then, like, two months ago, I had to write the little, like, thing for the yearbook or whatever the heck thing that they make you write. Yeah, right. The ad you have to put in the yearbook? Yeah. When I tell you, the tears, two days it took me to write those things. Do you write two different things? Or since they're twins, you just put the same thing? No, Jimmy. No. OK. All right, I don't know. I don't know how to do this. You're two different people. Have you ever been to Target? Like, do you, can you do that? You know, I'm not, I don't go to stores a lot. I do once in a while, but not a lot. Have you ever been to Costco? Years ago. Oh, yeah? Did you love it? It was all right. It was all right? It was fine. I think it was fine. Have you ever been to a discount tire center? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, you've been to. When the car breaks down, you got to go. So there's a show, speaking of college, there's a show called Off Campus, this TV show. It's super popular on Amazon. It's so popular. Very, very popular. As you learn. A phenomenon. You learn this because one of the characters, Ally on the show, was dancing to your song with Pitbull. Yep. And wore a dress similar to a dress you wore at the Grammys. I think I have the dress that you wore at the Grammys. Not exactly, but this became a very big thing. It was huge. How'd you find out about it? I just found out because Benny and my team, Larry, who do my socials, they called me and they were like, on the floor has entered the charts for the first time in 15 years. I was like, what? It was just like out of the blue. That's so strange, right? Yes. But that's the difference. It's like the music business, everything has changed because people discover music. Like, my kids are listening to all kinds of music that I've never even heard of, and some stuff that is classic, like the Beatles and, you know. I was on the beach this weekend. And they know these things. And there was this group of teenage girls on a blanket, like a little short distance from us, listening to Billy Joel at full volume, and I was so happy. Yes. But they, listen, great music lives forever, as we know. But it lives in a different way now because they can find it easily. Yeah. You, um, that's pretty crazy. It's crazy. I cannot believe it. You still have that dress? Yeah, I have both dresses. So if you remember, I wore it, if anybody remembers, I wore the one to the Grammys. I forgot what year it was, but many years ago. And then. 2000, I think. 2000. And so 25 years later, whatever it was, about five years ago, we did the 20th anniversary. And I have that dress. She made a brand new green dress for me. So I have both of them. You've got to do that every 20 years. I don't know if the next, in the next 20 years, you want me wearing that dress. I have a feeling we will work out. I'm going to make a promise right now. I'm going to wear it in 20 years. Oh, great. OK, good. And it's going to look good. I'm going to try to stay alive to see that. You're not going to hate it, OK? No, I'm sure it will look good. So do you have, like, a museum in your home of all these dresses, these famous dresses? You know, I do have an archive. It's not like a formal archive, like a museum or something that I've heard some people have. I don't have that. Who has them? Who do you know has one? I heard, well, my idol is Barbra Streisand. And I heard she has kind of like a store. She's got a store in her basement, I think. But does it have all her stuff in it, or is it a store where she can shop? I don't know. I know she cloned it. Because we don't go to Target or Costco. Yeah. Right? Yeah, Barbra can't go to Target or Costco. You've never been invited to Barbra's house? No. Wow. No. I've met her a couple of times, and she's lovely. But no, I don't know her like that. Oh, well, we've heard. She knows I'm a huge fan, I'm sure. We've got to connect you with Barbra. Maybe. It's interesting that she has that. No, I get very starstruck when I see her. And I get very like, I'm shy anyway, believe it or not. I am. I am shy. I like to sing. I like to dance. I like to act. But it's all like behind the character, behind the facade thing. Like when I have to like, I couldn't do what you do, like host a show and do all that kind of stuff. I think you could. I don't think so. So do you, are you like at home putting on Barbra and just belting out? Yes. Oh, really? Oh, my man, I love him so. He'll never know. She was my mom's everything growing up, you know? And so then she kind of imbued that in me from a young age. Well, I hope that Barbra's listening and she and James Brolin will have you in the basement. For a shop. For a shop, yeah. Of course, yeah. But I don't have an archive like that. I just, you know, have stuff in like boxes in my garage. Oh. All right, well, we're going to take a break here. We're going to see a clip from your new movie. It's called Office Romance. It will premiere on Netflix on June 5th. Jennifer Lopez is here. We'll be right back. You're the new lawyer? Yes, sorry. I am he, Daniel Blanchflower. Nice shoes. Sydney? Yes. This is the guy? Yeah, this is, I'm literally, I already forgot it. Blanchflower. Blank powder. Blanchflower. Blanchflower, that's what I said. Thank you. We are back with Jennifer Lopez. That is Office Romance. If you can see it on Netflix on June 5th. That is Brett Goldstein. I love that guy, by the way. Oh my god, he's so fantastic. He's so funny. He's funny. He's smart. He wrote this script for me. He was a fan, I guess, before. And I was a fan of his from Ted Lasso, which people knew I was a fan of Ted Lasso. And I guess, yeah, I mean, a fantastic show. He's very different from Roy Kent on Ted Lasso. So different. Like, I thought Roy Kent was going to walk in. I was like, oh, this tough, gruff guy from England. I was like, I'm kind of ready for it. And he came in, and he was just like, hello. And I was like, hi. Oh my god, you're so sweet and kind. It was such a beautiful surprise, and we had the best time. When somebody like him tells you, I wrote this movie for you, that's a lot of pressure, right? In what way? Like, you don't like it? Yeah, what if I don't like it? Is he lying? Well, he also sent a note that said, you're at the top of our list. It's a list of one. If you don't do the movie, we're not making it. Oh, wow. That's pretty good. Yeah, it was a good note. That is a good note. But that adds to the pressure, right? A little bit, but it was funny. Yeah, you had fun. It was really funny, and it was really romantic. And it was, he wanted to do, he said he always, like, dreamed of doing a classic romantic comedy. And he made one. Him and Joe Kelly wrote it. Is he the hairiest person you've ever done a love scene with? Maybe not. You've been hairy? There's hairy guys out there. Really? Yeah, because he's very, very hairy. Like, I kind of, like, thought he would be. How hairy are you? Not anywhere near that hairy. Bald, like a baby. No, I didn't say bald like a baby. In between? Well, let me see how I can describe it. I'd say I have a medium amount of hair on my body. And you don't wax? No. Shave? Clipper. My mom once put one of those. You ever see those stickers? They're, like, nine by nine. It's like a square. And you put it on your body, and then you rip it off, and the hair all comes off? Yeah, that's like a waxing, almost. Yeah. My mom thought it was funny. I was walking around the house without a shirt. This is when I was in college. This is why I left. A square? Like, this big? A square. She put it right on my back. And then you have that moment where you realize, oh, this has got to come off. And it's not going to feel good when it comes off. And you hope your skin doesn't come off with it. Most of the skin seemed to come off with it. I wound up, because I didn't want to do it again, I wound up with a big, bald square in the middle of my back. Oh my god. And that is why I moved out of the house. Exactly. You don't do that to the twins? No, we just put, no. Is this a surprise waxing? No. You're single right now. I am. Have you considered? I should have done it sooner. I've been doing it all wrong. Trust me. Would you consider, I should say, becoming the next Bachelorette here on ABC? No, that was not something. Are you crazy? I'm not doing anything to ruin how I feel right now. No, you wouldn't. No, it's fantastic. I love it. Because it seems too hard for you to meet people otherwise. I'll meet somebody somewhere one day. If they're good enough, I don't know. I think it would be great if we put you in a house with 25 weirdos. Oh, better. Wouldn't it be funny, even just as a prank, that they haven't met the Bachelorette yet, and they're all, you know, kind of excited, and then you walk out, and they all, they ---- their pants simultaneously? No. I can't. I could never. No. I can't do it. No, I'm good. I'm good right now. Well, if you change your mind, think about it, OK? Thank you. You were at Coachella also. Was that a fun experience? It was a big surprise, right? It was. It was my first time at Coachella. I've never played Coachella. And yeah, I had done this song with David Guetta, Save Me Tonight. And we, and it was, like, doing well. Like, we were like, oh, we just put it out. And it was doing well. And he was playing. And it was like, come on out and surprise. And I was like, OK. That's fun, right? Surprising everybody that way? It was so much fun. Yeah, the Bachelorette would be fun too, I suppose. You and David Guetta. Surprising everybody. Well, it's very good to see you. The movie is called Office Romance. It premieres June 5 on Netflix. Jennifer Lopez, everybody. Thanks.