From a veteran stripper in "Hustlers" to an international Tejano superstar in "Selena," Jennifer Lopez has played an array of personas on the big screen.
But that wasn't always the case.
The star, 51, revealed during Variety's Power of Women Conversations by Lifetime Wednesday that she was typecast as "the maid, the dishwasher" earlier in her career.
"I was like, 'I don't want to do that,' " Lopez explained. "I had to kind of break out of that and convince somebody to put me in the first romantic comedy, which I think was 'The Wedding Planner.' (Director) Adam Shankman put me in that movie.'"