THE WEEKLY

“At the age of five I started asking – you know I really wanted to act – I was asking my parents, ‘Hey, I want to study this, I want to be this, I want to become an actress when I grow up.’”

“How am I going to remember all these lines? Somehow I did it.”

"I know my priorities and my fundamentals as a human being and everything else just kind of falls into place.”

“I had a lot of energy growing up that needed direction, that needed funneling into something productive, and so theatre became a really interesting emotional activity for me.”

From growing up homeless in New York to producing for some of the biggest names in the business

Born in Brooklyn, Lopez learned the true meaning of hard work and sacrifice early on

“Think of places of worship, state and county fairs, farmer’s markets and town halls – where they could actually go and conduct hands-on civic science workshops that allow them to build public trust in science.”