Ben Affleck: I Won't Ever Make a Movie With Wife Jennifer Garner
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Gigli: never forget!
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner won't be collaborating any time soon.
When asked about making a movie with his wife of 5 years, a seemingly traumatized Affleck was blunt. "Jen is a great actress," the actor, 38, says in the new Us Weekly. "I would be profoundly lucky to work with her. But something tells me that people don't want to see real-life couples together at the movies."
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Affleck should know. His 2003 flick Gigli, in which he costarred with then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, was a critical and commercial catastrophe. (He and Lopez split in 2004.)
"I think audiences have a hard time suspending disbelief," he added to Time magazine at a recent event. "They already know a whole bunch of things about the relationship you have with the other person and if you try and thrust you and another person into a fictional relationship, I think it is distracting."
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Before their relationship began, he and Garner, 38, appeared onscreen together in 2003's Daredevil. They are now parents to two daughters: Violet, 4, and Seraphina, 20 months.
Affleck directed and stars in the upcoming crime drama The Town, in which he appears in two talked-about sex scenes, including one with Blake Lively. He told Time that the scene was "very depressing...She's the ex girlfriend, and we sort of keep falling back in it. The one you keep trying to get away from but can't quite and we are really bad for one another."
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The star praised Lively's performance. "Blake was really good, she really got that that was the idea, she really committed to it and the idea was to make it not to cheap or tawdry."
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tehy also were in Pearl Harbor together but Jennifer had a supporting part. The main character was indeed played by Kate Beckinsale. Jennifer played another nurse, wearing glasses, if I remember correctly...
it's been a long time since I've seen that lame movie Pearl Habor, but I think Ben's character was w/ Kate Beckinsale's character, not Jen. I think he's talking about a movie where they are a couple. And I agree, most of them don't work. Gigli was one of the worst movies ever made.
yeah a previous poster is right they were in Pearl Harbor together. though that's a different thing totatlly. neither of them will ever be Icons like Newman & Woodward or Hepburn and Tracy are. so your right Ben maybe smart not to work with Jen now that their married but he could've worded it differently.
Thank you!!!! You both suck!!
I'd be cautious too. The whole Gigli thing just about ended the man's career. If he feels better not working with his wife, that' his call. I think this movie could be his big comeback. Good luck Ben!
no there where not in pearl harbor together it was dare devil
weren't they both in a movie called "Pearl Harbor?" back in 2001?
I mean the reason Gigli bombed.. She can sing and she is beautiful, but the acting is not all it needs to be..
Ummm, it could have been that JLo can't act her way out of a paper bag.. Just saying...
Courtney: Yes, but not that many. He is probably smart to keep it separate. Once burned, twice shy and all that. I don't really like watching real life coules either. Not very believable...
Too bad, you already did.
Ben is just being cautious...and you know what most of the reality tv stars that have been couple...are not together...it is his decision...and we need to respect that...him and his wife are a great couple...i admire how family is crucial
He's a nutbag if he thinks working together would ruin his and Jenn's marriage. other big hollywood couples have successfully worked together and stayed married. Ben needs to get over himself.