Jennifer Lopez had her sights on landing the starring role in the 1996 movie adaptation of the musical “Evita.”

“I went to audition for ‘Evita’ for [director] Alan Parker,” Lopez said Wednesday night during a post-screening Q&A of her new movie musical “ Kiss of the Spider Woman .” “I had been practicing for weeks and I sing my heart out and he goes, ‘You’re amazing. You know Madonna has the part, right?’”

Lopez laughed: “I said, ‘OK, bye-bye. Nice to meet you.’”

Now, Lopez is finally getting her movie musical moment in Bill Condon’s big screen adaptation of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” opposite Tonatiuh and Diego Luna.

Lopez plays Ingrid Luna, a movie star whose most famous role is that of a spider woman, capable of killing her lovers with a kiss. In 1981, during Argentina’s Dirty

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