Ben Affleck is being honest about his wife Jennifer Lopezhis intense level of fame and adoration — as well as the public perception that he has “resting bitch face.”
The extensive chat appears as part of a new episode of Kevin Hart’s Peacock chat show Hart for the heartwhere the Oscar winner sat down with the comedian to open up about life and love.
Although he did not address any of the speculation or reports of problems in his marriage to Lopezhe marveled at the impact she has on her fans.
“She’s so famous… (and) people love her, and she really represents something important to people,” Affleck told Hart. “(With me) people are like, ‘Hey, I liked your movie.’ (But) then they’re like ‘AAAHHHH! J.Lo!'” he exclaimed. “It’s amazing.”
Affleck recounted an experience where he and Lopez were accompanied by all five children — including Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, who Affleck shares with his ex-wife Jennifer Garnerand Lopez’s 16-year-old twins, Max and Emme, from her marriage to Marc Anthony.
The entire group was heading to a play in New York and the traffic in Times Square was packed.
“We were going to a play and I was like, ‘Fuck you, honey, we’re going to be late, we have to walk a block and a half.’ And she said, ‘Okay.’ She didn’t say anything.
However, this specific plan did not take into account the fervor that would be generated by Lopez walking down the street with her children in public.
“So we went out with her, all the kids, through Times Square, and shit was like bananas. I was like, ‘Oh my God,’” Affleck recalled. “There was this lady, she was smoking weed, in a skin-tight purple suit… and she started running backwards filming, saying ‘J.Lo!’ Like a herald.”
“It attracts everyone and all the tourists come in,” he continued. “So we have our five kids, it’s me and Jen and what seems like hundreds of people, and everyone is screaming.”
For Affleck, the fame they have is something of a double-edged sword when it comes to their families and their roles as parents.
“Every day that I’m alive I want to make sure I’m doing the right thing for them, making their lives better,” Affleck shared about his children, admitting that he’ll sometimes see that they’ve “been through some bulls* *t” in their lives. personal lives because of something to do with her father’s position in the public spotlight.
“It breaks my heart when I think, ‘This shit would never happen if I wasn’t in this life,'” Affleck admitted. “And it’s hard. I really think so, a lot.”
“But I also know that I like this life for them more than the one I had,” he added. “I talk to Jennifer a lot about this as we look at what the difference between our children’s lives is.”
In general, it seems that Affleck is less comfortable living his life in the public eye than many celebrities – and this seems to manifest itself in the somewhat grumpy, unhappy, stoic, or downright miserable facial expressions the actor has had in countless paparazzi photos. the years.
“I’m a little shy. I don’t like a lot of attention. That’s why people see me and think, ‘Why is this guy always mad?'” Affleck said. “Because someone put the camera in my face and I was like, ‘OK, let’s go.’”
“You have a resting bitch face,” Hart responded with a laugh.
“‘Bitch? No, I’m resting hard man,” Affleck said with a laugh. “People are projecting something onto me that I don’t feel for myself.”
Shortly before the release of the new episode of Hart for the heartphotos and videos taken by TMZ on Wednesday showed the “Jenny From the Block” singer, 54, at a hotel in Positano, Italy, where she appeared to be vacationing alone.
The trip takes place at a time when the actress/singer faced months of reports that she and Affleck, 49, are fighting. The duo – who got married in a Las Vegas ceremony in July 2022 — presented a united front in recent weeks, even as rumors swirled that they were headed toward divorce.
In late May, a source close to the couple told ET that Affleck and Lopez were very aware of their problems and were Desperately trying to save your marriage.
“Ben and Jen don’t want to get divorced,” the source shared, adding that the pair “are saying no, but their relationship just isn’t working at this point. because they love each other, but they are also unhappy.”
A few weeks later, another source told ET that while they hadn’t yet thrown in the towel on “the greatest love story never told” and that they were desperate to “fix things”, they lived separately and operated almost completely independently.
Despite rumors of trouble, Affleck and Lopez continued to be seen together, often wearing their wedding rings. Most recently, Lopez shocked fans by taking to her Instagram story to I wish my husband a happy Father’s Day.
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