Jennifer Lopez was ready to give it her all when auditioning for Evita, but had no idea Madonna had already landed the part.

“I went to audition for Evita for [director] Alan Parker,” Lopez, 56, said during a Wednesday, September 10, Q&A following a screening of her new movie musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, per Variety. “I had been practicing for weeks, and I sing my heart out.”

She continued: “And [Parker] goes, ‘You’re amazing. You know Madonna has the part, right?’”

Lopez looked back on the moment with laughter now, but at the time she was devastated.

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“I said, ‘OK, bye-bye. Nice to meet you,’” she recalled.

Madonna, now 67, played Argentinian first lady Eva Perón in the 1996 film adaptation of Evita, which o

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