Bennifer Chapter was bad for Ben Affleck’s career
Ben Affleck has said it. Jennifer Lopez was bad for his career.
Now I am not sure how to interpret this but now that it is over he sounded like he was blaming the girl.
The “Bennifer” phenomenon, coined by Ben’s friend Kevin Smith, was huge so huge it took over their careers.
It all began when the two starred in the ultra-flop “Gigli” in 2002. What came next was an excessive flaunting of their devotion to each other in public combined with multi-million dollar presents told and shown to the press. Of course, the press loved it and the public too. The two were consumed with this attention. Soon they found themselves trapped and they wanted to change it.
Only it was all too late. The planned wedding didn’t happen and in 2004 Ben and the singer broke up.
Recently, he revealed to Details that “it was probably bad” for his career resulting to not being taken seriously by studio executives.
“What happens is this sort of bleeds over from the tabloids across your movie work.
You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody. I ended up in an unfortunate crosshair position where I was in a relationship and (the media) mostly lied and inflated a bunch of salacious stuff for the sake of selling magazines. And I paid a certain price for that.”
Now, Ben is happily married with another Jennifer and has a daughter Violet while JLo and third husband Marc Anthony are still expecting to have one.
Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Garner, Marc Anthony, Violet Affleck
October 8th, 2007 at 3:55 am
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