It’d be easy to question Stone’s gender politics (as many have with his previous work) but much like Jennifer Jason Leigh in last year’s The Hateful Eight, Lopez is only as. Lopez’s first major film role in 1997’s Selena, combined three of her loves - singing, dancing, and acting - and involved her portraying not a character but a real singer, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, who tragically died two years earlier after being shot by her employee, Yolanda Saldivar. Jennifer Lopez, as the sole female in the core cast, is there to look sexy and seductive in a floaty orange dress but even she emerges as a cunning villainess. Lo considers some of her personal favorites. With an estimated net worth of $400 million and a possible Oscar nomination on the way for her performance in Hustlers, Lopez has come a long way from the early days of her acting career. ? It’s amazing to think about the incredible people I’ve had the opportunity to work with! ✨✨,” she captioned the post. “#TBT to some of my favorite movies I’ve been in. Then there's Grace McKenna (a sizzling Jennifer Lopez), who is as dangerous as the curves of her red sundress. With Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Billy. Filmed with claustrophobic close-ups as the camera swoops in on subjects at knee-high level, U-Turn gives us half-eaten coyotes, smashed cats, sweat-drenched foreheads, and grease-smeared stomachs. Bobby's first encounters include a repulsive mechanic (Billy Bob Thornton under the grease) and a blind Indian (Jon Voight under the makeup). With Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Abraham Benrubi, Richard Rutowski. U-Turn weaves leisurely-paced character encounters with hyperactive editing-sort of like Stone and his crew smoked plenty of peyote between scenes. The dancer-actress-singer-producer, who has been in more than 36 films, highlighted six of her past acting credits she counts among her favorites in a throwback Instagram post on Dec. This film has plenty of odd characters but you never really find out much about them. In 1997, Morricone composed the music for Lolita (by Adrian Lyne) and Oliver Stones U Turn, starring Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez. Voight next appeared in a supporting role in Oliver Stones U Turn, portraying a blind man. Jennifer Lopez is taking a look back at a number of her “favorite” acting roles. Lopez starred alongside Sean Penn and Billy Bob Thornton in the crime film U Turn, in October 1997.