Ben Affleck recalls igniting romance with Jennifer Lopez on ‘Gigli’ sets

Ben Affleck dished on the factors that led to his and Jennifer Lopez's 2003 movie Gigli's poor-performance on box office.

During his conversation with Entertainment Weekly, The Batman star revealed what he learnt from the project.

“But 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,” he said. “But for being a movie that's such a famous bomb and a disaster, very few people actually saw the movie. It doesn't work, by the way. It's a sort of horse's head in a cow's body.”

The Tender Bar actor also admitted that him dating JLo during filming of the movie created a huge buzz that it took away the spotlight from the movie.

“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. They want the two of them together. More of that!’ And it was just like that SNL sketch: ‘Bad Idea’,” Affleck shared.

“The funny name, the Jennifer Lopez romance, and overexposure of that, it was kind of a perfect storm... and I was like it's just spectacular, it's a tsunami, it couldn't be worse. This is as bad as it gets,” he recalled.

However, the 49-year-old actor doesn’t regret taking that project as he ‘got to meet Lopez’ and for bringing him “the relationship (that) has been really meaningful to me in my life." said Affleck.