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Jennifer Lopez Jokes About Gigli, Ben Affleck: “There Are Worse Movies!”

Jennifer Lopez, Seth Meyers
Jennifer Lopez looked back on starring with Ben Affleck in the widely mocked 2003 flop Gigli, acknowledging that it "sucked" -- watch her funny interview with Seth Meyers here.

Long live Gigli. It’s been more than 10 years since Jennifer Lopez‘s flop of a film was released, but people are still bringing up the disastrous 2003 rom-com, in which she starred alongside then-fiancee Ben Affleck. Take, for example, Lopez’s interview with Seth Meyers on Wednesday, Jan. 21.

“Do you have favorites?” Meyers asked the multi-hyphenate about her movie selections. “And ones you look back on and ask, ‘Oh, why did I do that?'”

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Lopez, 45, nodded and responded: “Of course. I mean, I’ve done a lot of movies at this point. There are some that I’m like, ‘Wow, it was amazing to be a part of that.'” On the flip side, the Boy Next Door star joked: “And [there are] some that you mention the name, and I’m like, ‘Huh? What? Which movie? I’m sorry, I don’t remember that.’ That just tells you, you’ve been in it for a long time.”

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Indeed, Lopez has 35-plus acting credits to her name, including her career-defining role as late singer Selena Quintanilla in the 1997 biopic Selena. One year later, she also showed off her acting chops in another smash hit, Out of Sight, co-starring George Clooney. In 2002, Lopez starred as a wife who retaliates against her abusive husband in the thriller Enough.

While she’s tackled a variety of movie genres, the actress has certainly made her mark starring in romantic comedies like The Wedding Planner (2001), Maid in Manhattan (2002), Monster-in-Law (2005), and What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012). None, however, was more disastrous than Gigli.

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“You were in Anaconda,” Meyers noted to his guest Wednesday, to which she responded: “I was?!”

Laughing, Lopez continued: “I was also in Gigli. I was also in…what else? What else sucked?”

Meyers brought up a story about when Affleck was on SNL many years ago, and the actor got “so mad” that Gigli was receiving so much flack.

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck in “Gigli”

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“We got a lot of crap at that time,” Lopez mused. “And it was because we were together… there was a whole other thing that was happening. There are worse movies than Gigli out there!”

On the show Wednesday, Lopez also discussed her 6-year-old twins Max and Emme, and why she decided to hire a manny. Watch her appearance above!

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