Jennifer Lopez's Marry Me Wedding Dress Weighed 95 Pounds
Jennifer Lopez's dress from the new rom-com Marry Me was a 95-pound behemoth. Marry Me, which just came to theaters and Peacock, is a new blockbuster rom-com from director Kat Coiro, who will also be helming Marvel's upcoming She-Hulk series. The film stars Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson alongside Maluma, Chloe Coleman, Sarah Silverman, and John Bradley, who is having a banner February, having also appeared in last weekend's Roland Emmerich disaster film Moonfall.
The film's plot begins when Owen Wilson's character Charlie Gilbert attends a concert with his daughter. The concert is meant to be a showstopping event where musical partners Kat Valdez (Jennifer Lopez) and Bastian (Maluma) get married onstage while debuting their single «Marry Me.» When she learns that Bastian has been cheating on her just before going onstage, a heartbroken Kat notices Charlie's sign that reads «Marry Me» and tearfully agrees to what she believes to be a genuine proposal.
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Variety spoke with costume designer Caroline Duncan about what it took to make the dress the showstopping centerpiece of the «Marry Me» sequence that it is. The dress, which was designed by Zuhair Marad, is a nine-layer, 95-pound affair made of "silk taffeta, horsehair, and tulle", topped with "crystals, silver, ruffles, embroidery, and lace." According to Duncan, it took 5 people just to move the dress and even more to help Lopez get in and out of it.
Duncan went on to explain how the dress serves as the central metaphor for the emotional place that Kat is in during the first act of Marry Me, and why she just might make the desperate decision that she does. While this decision seems reckless at first (and the dress
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