It was once a badge of camp approbation (“She is such a diva”). But Jennifer Lopez in a fascinating and revealing round-table interview of Hollywood actresses makes clear the burden of being called a diva.
“I’ve always been fascinated by how much more well-behaved we have to be than men,” she said to her fellow interviewees Kerry Washington, Sarah Paulson, Julianna Margulies, Regina King, Kirsten Dunst, and Constance Zimmer.
“I got a moniker of being ‘the diva,’ which I never felt I deserved which I don’t deserve because I’ve always been a hard worker, on time, doing what I’m supposed to do, and getting that label because you reach a certain amount of success,” Lopez said.
There has been a diva disconnect. “Diva,” in its oldest form, was accorded to an opera singer, then someone of supreme talent, who powerfully evoked and encapsulated a sense of drama.
Divas wore extravagant clothes, loomed just as extravagantly on stage as off, and seemed to live lives far outsized to those who watched them.
The most positive modern divas are seen as charismatic and masterful, like Beyoncé. Others, like Katherine Heigl, have the word attached to them, fairly or unfairly, because of being seen as difficult, and “diva” is the handiest word lying nearby.
The negative attributes associated with the word that Lopez identified are the characteristics of a bully or egomaniac. Apparently she says "divas" used to be bullies and behaved in a way she never would. So...... for all you girls who say they are divas .. well.... i think you should do a little research and check the dictionary on that one.
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