“I was really nervous and scared, just like Zoe,” Lucy Paez says of her film debut in The Mother. “So Jennifer treated me like her daughter. She taught me so much, on-scene and off-scene.” The “Jennifer” Paez is referring to is, of course, Emmy and Grammy nominee Jennifer Lopez, who plays the mother of Paez’s character Zoe in the film. Above, you can see Lopez and Paez bonding on the chilly Canadian set of The Mother.

In The Mother, Lopez plays a retired assassin who finds herself drawn back into the field to protect her long-lost daughter from some brutal old enemies. Along the way, the pair may finally forge the familial connection they never got the chance to make.The Mother is a thrilling and intense ride that will also remind you to — yes — call your mom.

With an ensemble cast including Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Gael García Bernal and Paul Raci, The Mother hits Netflix on May 12.