Lopez: Easier to play mothers now (From Salisbury Journal)

Lopez: Easier to play mothers now

11:23am Thursday 29th October 2009

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Jennifer Lopez has said she's better at playing a movie mum since having her twins.

The actress and singer - who has played a mother in films such as An Unfinished Life and My Family - revealed it's easier to channel her maternal instincts on the silver screen now she has twins Max and Emme, who she welcomed in February 2008.

The star, who plays a woman who is desperate for a baby in upcoming romcom The Back-Up Plan, told Extra: "I've played a mom, and I've had kids in movies before, but now you understand it in a different way."

She added: "The trick to acting is actually not to act. That's the trick, now I don't have to act, now I can just be, and it makes it better."

J-Lo, 40 - who wed husband Marc Anthony five years ago - said becoming a mum has made her a "different person".

"It just affects the way you think and the way you feel and the way you view things," she said.

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