Still, most would that the entertainment word was forever changed as a result of the film launching a decades-long obsession with Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s romantic lives.Olivier Mourgue, Designer, Painter and Professor, June 6, 2018. The turbulent time pushed him to pivot toward his impressive directing career, and many moviegoers are likely very grateful for that. And I did get to meet Jennifer, the relationship with whom has been really meaningful to me in my life.īen Affleck has gained a lot of perspective on his personal and professional lives from rough experiences like this one and the more recent working experience he had on Justice League. But if the reaction to Gigli hadn't happened, I probably wouldn't have ultimately decided, 'I don't really have any other avenue but to direct movies,' which has turned out to be the real love of my professional life. There's that aspect of people that I got to see that was sad and hard, it was depressing and really made me question things and feel disappointed and have a lot of self-doubt. It engendered a lot of negative feelings in people about me. I can see now how people looked at me and thought of this person as some callow frat guy who's cavalier or has too much. Later in the interview, he recalled how the film's story problems and the Bennifer chaos made for a perfect storm: The Justice League star admitted he knew the film was in trouble when he, Jennifer Lopez, and the cast were called back for five weeks of reshoots. More of that!’ And it was just like that SNL sketch: ‘Bad Idea.’Īt the time, it seemed that Sony was indeed playing into the public's fascination with the two stars' real-life relationship. And the studio at the time, because I had begun having this relationship with Jennifer Lopez, which was selling a lot of magazines and appeared to generate a lot of enthusiasm, they just predictably latched onto, ‘They want a romantic comedy. It's a sort of horse's head in a cow's body.

But for being a movie that's such a famous bomb and a disaster, very few people actually saw the movie. Affleck was very candid while speaking with Matt Damon for Entertainment Weekly about how media oversaturation and public perception played into Gigli’s poor reception:īut really, the truth about that movie and what it taught me was how much everything around a movie sort of dictates the way people see it.

But years after the comedy’s release, the Last Duel star seems to have gained some perspective on the situation. While Jennifer Lopez was able to move on from the film relatively quickly, it took some time for Ben Affleck to truly rebound in Hollywood. The media hoopla surrounding Bennifer seemed to overshadow the film’s marketing and eventual release.

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