Jennifer Lopez Expertly Responds To Interviewer’s Awkward Joke About Her Age

“Did he just say that?” a crowd member is heard saying on the video.

An interviewer ruffled the feathers of some audience members after he awkwardly joked about Jennifer Lopez “getting up there” in age during a Los Angeles screening for her new film, “Unstoppable.”

“Listen, I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since ‘Selena,’” Variety’s senior awards editor, Clayton Davis, told Lopez Sunday during a Q&A in a video obtained by TMZ. He was referencing her starring role in the 1997 biopic about the late singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

Lopez, 55, initially replied with a simple, “Wow.” His comment was met with audible gasps and some laughter from the apparently befuddled crowd.

“Did he just say that?” someone can be heard muttering. Another person in the audience can be heard calling the comment “rude.”

“It’s funny you think that I’m getting up there,” Lopez began, prompting Davis to quickly clarify that he’d meant it as a “joke.”