This Is Me…Now: A Love Story is like nothing you’ve ever seen from Jennifer Lopez. Alongside director Dave Meyers, Jennifer has created a narrative-driven cinematic odyssey, steeped in mythological storytelling and personal healing. Dropping in tandem with her first studio album in a decade, this genre-bending Amazon original showcases her journey to love through her own eyes. With fantastical costumes, breathtaking choreography, and star-studded cameos, this panorama is an introspective retrospective of Jennifer’s resilient heart.

Entertainment Affair recently joined Lopez and director Dave Meyers for a virtual press conference to discuss their ambitious new collaboration. Check out a few highlights of the event below.

Lopez explained the project was inspired by the way she feels her life is magical and surreal at times

“I went in the studio and I made this album, and when it was done, I just thought to myself, there’s more to this story,” she said. “There’s something bigger I want to do with this music. I don't know exactly what I want to do, which is kind of why I think we created something that hadn’t really been done, because it didn’t fit into any one specific category. Not quite a film, not quite a video, but a story nonetheless, something very original.”

She discussed how it depicts her entering "a healthier, more self-accepting phase" of her life

“It ended this 20-year journey about a lot of questions that I had about love and being myself, a hopeless romantic, and what it means to really enter into a kind of healthier, more self-accepting phase for myself,” she said. “Now what will happen from that, I hope, will be even more wonderful things that I have been so privileged to live up until this point.”

“What the movie shows is that there has been struggles and there has been hard times that nobody knew about that I kept to myself, and gaining the confidence to be vulnerable and to admit certain things to the world has only made me more comfortable in my own skin and empowered me to step into this next phase of my life as an artist and as a human being,” she added.

Lopez also revealed that husband Ben Affleck helped her overcome her doubts while making the film

“I was like, ‘I don’t write, I don’t do this.’ He was like, ‘You do, you write, you direct, you produce, you choreograph, you do all the things. Start stepping into that, start owning a little bit of who you are,’” she recalled Affleck telling her.

Meyers added that the pair's romance helped inspire and shape the project

“Metaphorically, it is true,” Meyers said. “That stemmed from her telling me the pain that she’s been in, specifically the pain that she went through when she broke up with Ben the first time. There was a lot of honesty that was shared in that first meeting, and so the heart factory became sort of a Titanic-level meltdown, which was a metaphor for what she was giving me as far as her truth.”

The film includes a star-studded list of cameos, including Affleck, Post Malone, Fat Joe, Keke Palmer, Trevor Noah and Sofia Vergara.

This Is Me…Now: A Love Story will premiere globally on Prime Video on February 16.