Jennifer Lopez (the queen of romantic comedies; fight me!) talked to The Times ahead of her upcoming film, “Second Act,” which is out Dec. 21.

I stan for Lopez as an actress: “The Wedding Planner,” the 2001 rom-com which features Lopez as, you know, a wedding planner, was my favorite movie until “Maid in Manhattan” (Lopez, a hotel maid, becomes Lopez, a politician’s love interest) came out in 2002. Suffice to say, I will be seeing “Second Act” on opening day.

In the profile, Lopez talks about pushing herself in her career, going to therapy and trying to teach her daughter self-love and that “she don’t need no fairy tale.” There are also several paragraphs of Alex Rodriguez hyping her up, which gave me heart-eye emoji vibes.

But one of her comments gave me pause. In “Second Act,” Lopez plays Maya de la Vargas, a 40-something assistant manager at a big box store in Queens who has bigger dreams. Our reporter wrote that the movie “glosses over the institutional and social hurdles that a character like Maya might face,” adding:

To Lopez, that is another instance where mind-over-matter determination should prevail. She was a Puerto Rican from the middle-class Bronx with aspirations far beyond that, and a tenacity that made it happen. “There is racism. There is sexism. There is ageism. There is all of this and you know what, that’s still not going to stop me,” she said. “I believe that 100 percent, to the bottom of my soul.”

So essentially, Lopez doesn’t see any flaw in the movie’s premise, because she subscribes to the central message: Anything can be accomplished with sheer force.

I get it: I’m the first of my American raised primos and siblings to go to college and, to their great annoyance, this means I’m the standard to which they’re frequently held. My relative success is used as a counterexample for anyone else’s perceived failures, the idea being: If Concepción did it, why can’t they? It’s a symptom of a mind-set called survivorship bias, whereby the survivors (i.e., the people who have “made it”) are viewed as the rule rather than the exception, a worldview that ignores the substantially greater numbers of people who aren't able to overcome limiting circumstances. It places the burden of success on the individual without recognizing, let alone tackling, the systemic barriers that hold marginalized people back, according to many, many studies and reports. It’s fine to gloss over inequality in romantic comedies, (O.K., maybe not fine but personally, I don’t mind two hours of optimistic escapism). But in real life, nuance matters.