Bill Condon has been praising Jennifer Lopez's performance on Kiss of the Spider Woman, which has the potential to get her Awards Season attention following the Oscars snubbing her for Hustlers. Later in our conversation, the Beauty and the Beast director went on to speak about the power of musical numbers, saying:

Each time “Kiss” cuts away from the cold gray walls of the cell, it calls for a star who can vamp her way through 1960s-style song-and-dance numbers, the way Chita Rivera did onstage.