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00:12You know, you just never know who you're going to hit it off with or who that person's going to
00:15be.
00:16And it's usually the most unlikely person or somebody who thought this will never happen.
00:20And, you know, life has a funny way of just happening.
00:33You can't always get it right the first time.
00:36Just ask Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck.
00:42When the high-profile Hollywood couple first split in 2004, it seemed like romance.
00:48Fast forward to 2021, and love is given a second chance.
00:55J.Lo and Ben were the it couple of the early 2000s.
01:00After a whirlwind romance on a movie set, press fans all around the world were totally obsessed with the match,
01:06seemingly made in heaven.
01:09And despite spending almost two decades apart, they've proved that love always wins, with the shocking but widely loved reunion
01:16in 2022.
01:21Made in Manhattan, married in Vegas, and living happily ever after in Beverly Hills.
01:27Bennifer is back and better than ever.
01:56In early 2021, there were rumblings of a reunion.
01:59When Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were spotted secretly visiting each other on numerous occasions, trying to look casual.
02:08Two decades after one of Hollywood's most notable love stories began, it seemed like the former couple were reigniting their
02:15spark.
02:19They eventually went public with their rekindled romance on Instagram a few months later.
02:25J.Lo and Affleck had remained supportive of one another in the years following their split, always praising each other's
02:33achievements.
02:37Then, in July 2021, in an Instagram post compiling a ton of images from her 52nd birthday, J.Lo ended
02:45the collection of cute pics with a photo of her kissing none other than Ben Affleck.
03:00At the Venice Film Festival in September 2021, the duo returned to the red carpet for the first time since
03:07reuniting.
03:13The pair continued to look more loved-up than ever in several more public appearances, hand-in-hand.
03:24But just how did they both rocket to fame?
03:28And where did their romance begin?
03:37So many film stars have attempted to launch a career in music, and so many hit musicians have sought further
03:44success in the movies.
03:46Yet none of them has ever matched the monumental achievements of Jennifer Lopez.
03:54Three multi-million selling albums and counting, several major blockbusters, Hollywood pay packets breaking the $12 million mark, and a
04:03Golden Globe nomination.
04:05Jennifer Lopez is truly an all-encompassing superstar.
04:12Everything's a challenge, you know what I mean?
04:14From the time I started acting, I mean, actually when I started dancing first and singing, that was a challenge
04:19to get into the business, just to break in from, you know, living in the Bronx and not having any
04:24connections and not knowing anybody, that was a challenge.
04:26Then breaking into television was a huge challenge, getting my first video, now making my first album, doing my first
04:32movie.
04:33So it's all, to me, just different things and different accounts and different goals I have, and I'm just gonna,
04:37you know, keep on trying.
04:40J-Lo began singing and dancing and taking lessons at the age of five.
04:44Her parents were very big on having a strong work ethic.
04:47They wanted them to speak English because she grew up in a Spanish family.
04:51But they allowed the kids to go around the house and do little shows and things like that.
04:55So that's really where J-Lo made her mark in the singing and dancing world.
05:01I was the type of kid who used to cut up my T-shirts and, you know, make a skirt
05:06out of a pair of pants and because I wanted it to match, right?
05:10I mean, I was just always been part of who I am, you know?
05:13After high school, her parents really wanted her to go to college.
05:17She went for one semester to Baruch College in Manhattan.
05:20That lasted not very long.
05:22So she moved out of her parents' house, got an apartment in Manhattan, and that's where she started getting roles
05:27in musicals like Oklahoma and things like that.
05:30And she even went to Japan where she danced in a show.
05:34She began auditioning for dance roles and was eventually selected as a dancer for various music videos.
05:41She scored her biggest break as a backing dancer in Janet Jackson's That's the Way Love Goes video in 1993.
05:48She was also selected as a backup dancer for New Kids on the Block.
05:53In 1993, Jennifer Lopez had been a backup dancer for Janet Jackson.
05:58And when Janet asked her to go on a longer extended tour, Lopez said no because she wanted to focus
06:04on her own thing
06:05and being taken seriously as a performer, actress, and singer in her own right.
06:12She managed to land a role alongside Hollywood A-listers Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson in the movie Money Train.
06:20After the success of Money Train, she acted alongside Robin Williams in Francis Ford Coppola's comedy drama Jack,
06:27propelling herself further up the A-list ladder.
06:311997 was a big year for J.Lo, personally and professionally.
06:36First came a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress for her role in the film Selena.
06:41First came a thousand talking around if it wasopes.
06:46You're the one who only drew up by you if you could do the film and motivo.
06:58Be those who were there if you weren't anything else.
07:00mentoring jiwa.com for airing themselves.
07:11I knew of Selena, and I'd heard her music.
07:15I was an admirer of hers.
07:16I knew she was doing great things.
07:19But I had never been to a concert or anything.
07:21But it was definitely a role that I felt I could sink my teeth into.
07:25I mean, it was a good role.
07:28They don't come along like this every day, so.
07:33Selena was loved by hundreds of thousands of fans.
07:36Did you feel any pressure when deciding to take this part?
07:38Can you tell us about that?
07:39No, there was no question of whether or not I was going to take it.
07:42If they were going to give it to me, I was going to do it.
07:45But of course, there was a lot of pressure with whoever would have gotten it
07:50because she was so beloved and because, you know, it was a huge job.
07:55There was a lot to do.
07:57You know, she was very fresh in the public's mind.
07:59They remembered her.
08:00How do you do it without impersonating, trying to impersonate her or being a caricature?
08:04You know, you don't want to do any of that.
08:06You want to be a real person.
08:08And, you know, that was the hard part.
08:11Right.
08:11The first scene, I mean, I know I trembled in my seat.
08:14I mean, it was amazing.
08:15Yeah.
08:16How did that feel?
08:17The fans just chanting Selena, Selena, Selena.
08:20Yeah.
08:20You coming into the Eastern Answer, don't talk about that.
08:23It was wonderful because when I first came out, I didn't know how the fans were going to accept me.
08:28And when I did come out, they were yelling Selena and they were yelling Jennifer,
08:32which made me feel very at home and that they did accept me in the role
08:37and they were there to be supportive and positive.
08:40So that was a great feeling.
08:42And the way you feel when you watch that first scene, if you just multiply that by like 10,000,
08:49that's how I felt when I walked in there and then got off.
08:53And when I walked up the stairs and they turned the lights down, you know, that was all one take.
08:58And I got off there.
09:00It was pretty amazing.
09:03Steven Soderbergh's film Out of Sight in 1998 truly highlighted J-Lo's potential.
09:10Starring alongside George Clooney, the film's success saw both stars suddenly being taken seriously.
09:18Karen Sisko.
09:19She's a tough girl, but has endearing qualities about her, which I enjoy.
09:23Is that what attracted you to the role of Karen?
09:26Yeah, I just think that it was a very good role, a strong woman's role.
09:31I'm not saying strong in the fact that that's what her character was,
09:34but strong in the fact that she's part of the story here, you know what I mean?
09:38It's not just window dressing and very appealing, of course, when you come across a role like that.
09:43Now, your character and George Clooney's character are almost the, you know, different sides of the same coin.
09:49You know, one kind of chose a different path and you're kind of the good path.
09:53Yeah.
09:54Talk about that a little bit.
09:54Yeah, you know, it's like, that's one of the good things about the script.
09:58It's very gray.
09:59It's not black or white.
10:00It's like good guys are bad guys and bad guys are good guys.
10:03And, you know, someone's doing the right thing and somebody's not doing the right thing.
10:06And the good guy kind of does something wrong.
10:08You know what I mean?
10:08And that's how real life is.
10:10And I think that's what makes this so interesting.
10:12It's that you understand why these characters are doing what they're doing.
10:15And you could see yourself.
10:16You can relate.
10:17You can put yourself in their shoes and go, okay, I might have done the same thing.
10:22Her debut album, On the Six, was released in June 1999 and made the top 10 on the U.S.
10:29charts.
10:31I would describe it as kind of like a Latin solo.
10:34It's kind of pop, but it's kind of like who I am.
10:38I grew up in New York.
10:40I'm Puerto Rican.
10:41So it's like it's urban, but it definitely has a Latin influence.
10:44And it's dance music.
10:48J-Lo's winning streak was evident, with the album earning a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording
10:58and two nominations at the Latin Grammy Awards also.
11:02J-Lo's debut single, If You Had My Love, was released in May 1999.
11:07Prior to the debut of her music, critics wondered why she would take the risk of launching a music career
11:13when she was already an established movie star.
11:16If You Had My Love was released in May 1999, and she created a record alongside Britney Spears,
11:23but they both topped the charts with their debut single.
11:27And that doesn't normally happen.
11:28You usually have to wait a little while or pay some dues, but that song did extremely well.
11:33A lot of music critics, though, were a little skeptical about her music career
11:36because they didn't understand why this big actress wanted to do music.
11:40That was kind of unheard of at the time, but she proved them wrong.
11:44If You Had My Love and I gave you all my
11:48Would you come for me?
11:51Tell me, baby
11:54And if somehow you knew me
11:59In 2001, while recording her second album, J-Lo, she decided to tweak her image
12:05as she began to develop into a sex symbol.
12:08She changed her stage name to J-Lo, a nickname given to her by the fans.
12:14The album was a commercial success, debuting at number one on the United States Billboard 200.
12:20It featured the hit single, Love Don't Cost a Thing.
12:24So in the video, My Love Don't Cost a Thing, great to see this fun beach atmosphere.
12:29It's sexy, and it has that famous image of her taking her top off at the end and throwing it
12:36towards the camera.
12:36And we also get a glimpse of her second husband, Chris Judd.
12:40He's her backup dancer in this video.
13:01It was in 2001 when J-Lo met backing dancer Chris Judd
13:07while filming the video to her single, Love Don't Cost a Thing.
13:10And the two married in late 2001.
13:14However, in true showbiz fashion, the marriage lasted only a few months,
13:19and by 2003, the two were divorced.
13:22But true love was just around the corner.
13:27In 2002, J-Lo met Hollywood actor Ben Affleck on the set of the film Geely.
13:32And love soon blossomed.
13:35At the time, J-Lo was still married to her second husband,
13:38and she and Affleck went public with their relationship soon after her divorce from Judd.
13:43The relationship spawned publicity off the scale,
13:46with the pair being renamed Bennifer,
13:48and Affleck even appearing in her music video for the single Jenny from the Block,
13:53which was taken from her third studio album, This Is Me Then.
13:58So her third studio album, This Is Me Then,
14:02had a lot of love songs that were dedicated to her fiancé, Ben Affleck.
14:07Now, the two had become engaged.
14:09This was the famous engagement where he gave her a huge pink diamond,
14:13and that became all the rage.
14:15Everyone wanted pink diamonds for their engagement.
14:17But it also was the start of Bennifer.
14:19And it's one of the first times we saw celebrity names become a hybrid name together.
14:24The paparazzi followed them everywhere.
14:28Every single moment of their engagement, of their life, was chronicled.
14:32And this is where we saw kind of a, I don't know, a cleaned-up Ben Affleck.
14:35He started wearing Gucci and all of Armani and being really dressed up and slicked-back hair.
14:40A very different Ben Affleck than we're used to.
14:43J-Lo has so many great songs.
14:46I think, I mean, some of them are not as great as others, but they're all fun.
14:49Of course, the classic that will always be an anthem is Jenny from the Block.
14:55And that's such an awesome song.
14:57It shows her with these furs and nice cars and, like, the personal assistant.
15:01And yet she's just, like, totally gritty, totally street.
15:06It just shows you can have all these fabulous things,
15:08but you can still honestly never forget where you came from and what your roots are.
15:14Jenny from the Block really chronicles the love story between Ben Affleck and J-Lo.
15:21You know, she's just saying, I'm a regular girl,
15:23but they're showing all these images of them out on the ocean in this big, fancy boat
15:27or in hotel rooms and the paparazzi chasing them.
15:54Ben Affleck started acting professionally throughout his childhood,
15:58but his first real spotlight role was a high school bully
16:01in Richard Linklater's cult classic, Dazed and Confused, in 1993.
16:06This projected him into the industry,
16:08and his first starring role came two years later in 1995
16:12as an aimless art student in the college drama Glory Days.
16:18A lead role in the romantic comedy Chasing Amy in 1997
16:22would become Ben Affleck's breakthrough,
16:25gaining him a lot of praise from critics.
16:30Also in 1997, Affleck co-wrote and acted in Good Will Hunting alongside Matt Damon.
16:36The screenplay originated in 1992
16:39when Damon wrote a 40-page script for a playwriting class at Harvard University.
16:44Affleck and Damon eventually won both the Golden Globe
16:47and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
16:54We've never taken ourselves very seriously or considered ourselves a, you know,
16:58we know so many writers, there's so many people whose work we admire
17:01and whose work we respect,
17:02and I think it's real difficult to not feel like an imposter.
17:06You know, we sort of feel like the Milli Vanilli of screenwriting,
17:09so we're trying to let it soak in a little bit.
17:14I think more than anything that it was an exercise in frustration
17:20because whether or not it actually comes to fruition,
17:23I think the act of sitting down and kind of taking control of your own life.
17:26The problem with being an actor is that,
17:29which means most of the time you're not going to be working,
17:31and you're going to be trying to be working,
17:32and it's really, really difficult to feel like you own your own life.
17:39And so just the act of sitting down,
17:40writing was something we could kind of do on our own time
17:43and feel like we were,
17:46there was an outlet for this kind of creative energy
17:48that we felt like we had, but nobody really wanted.
17:51And we never would have thought really that it was possible.
17:53I mean, even 15 years ago,
17:55people, you didn't think of independent movies as something that was,
17:57you know, you could do.
17:59So Matt and I thought that we could really make the movie
18:01by just raising a little bit of money and making it
18:04because guys like Kevin Smith and Rick Linklater and Spike Lee
18:08and all these, like, and Quentin Tarantino
18:10and all these great innovators kind of went out
18:12and made monies inexpensively, the Coens.
18:15You know, then you thought,
18:15oh, well, you can make a movie, you know,
18:17and you don't have,
18:18because we never thought that anyone would buy it
18:20or that it would actually go through the Hollywood sort of channels,
18:22much less, you know,
18:25end up winning Academy Awards, for God's sake.
18:31Armageddon.
18:31Released in 1998,
18:33established Affleck as a viable leading man
18:35for Hollywood studio films.
18:38Good Will Hunting had not yet been released
18:39during the casting process,
18:41and after Affleck's screen test,
18:43director Michael Bay dismissed him as a geek.
18:47Producer Jerry Bruckheimer convinced him
18:49that Affleck would be a star,
18:51but he had to lose weight, become tanned,
18:53and get his teeth capped before filming began.
18:56The film, where he starred opposite Bruce Willis
18:58as a blue-collar driller tasked by NASA
19:01with stopping an asteroid from colliding with Earth
19:03was a box office success.
19:07As long as it says,
19:08Harry Stamper oil on the rig,
19:09you will not disobey my rules.
19:10You got that?
19:11Yeah, I do got it.
19:12Right now, I need to hear five words from you.
19:16Uh, I'll never do that again.
19:19I'm a fool.
19:20That was idiotic.
19:21I mean, that was stupid.
19:22I'm an idiot.
19:22I know what names on the sign.
19:23I'm not...
19:24What's going on?
19:25What's going on?
19:25Well, I mean, I, you know, I screwed up.
19:27I'm a little edgy.
19:27How long have you worked for me?
19:28Five wonderful years.
19:30In five years, you have never apologized to me this quickly.
19:34Something's going on here,
19:34and I'm going to find out what it is.
19:36No, no, no, no.
19:36Well, I'm turning over...
19:41Later in 1998,
19:42Affleck had a supporting role
19:44as an arrogant English actor
19:45in the period romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love,
19:48starring his then-girlfriend, Gwyneth Paltrow.
19:50Shakespeare in Love won seven Academy Awards,
19:54including Best Picture,
19:55while the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award
19:58for Outstanding Performance by a Cast.
20:07Affleck reunited with director Michael Bay
20:09for the critically derided war drama Pearl Harbor in 2001.
20:13A.O. Scott of the New York Times
20:15felt Affleck and Kate Beckinsale
20:17do what they can with their lines
20:19and glow with the satiny shine of real movie stars.
20:28Ben Affleck became more involved
20:30with television and film production
20:31in the early 2000s.
20:33He and Damon had set up Pearl Street Films in 1998,
20:37named after the street that ran between their childhood homes.
20:43While Affleck had been a tabloid figure
20:45for much of his career,
20:46he was the subject of increased media attention in 2003
20:50because of his relationship with Jennifer Lopez.
20:53By the end of the year,
20:54Affleck had become, in the words of GQ,
20:57the world's most overexposed actor.
21:00J.Lo and Ben Affleck got engaged in November of 2002,
21:04with Affleck giving her a $2.5 million,
21:076.1 carat, pink diamond ring.
21:11She's had great success in the music industry,
21:14but her film career was not going well,
21:16especially the film Gigli,
21:18which she starred in with Ben Affleck, her fiancé.
21:22The movie cost about $54 million to produce.
21:26It only earned $7 million worldwide.
21:30Huge bomb, huge stinker for both of them.
21:33But they also had another film coming out,
21:35which came out early in 2004,
21:37and it was called Jersey Girl.
21:39Now, J.Lo only had a small role,
21:40and in fact, here's a spoiler,
21:42she dies at the beginning.
21:43But the film cost about $35 million to make
21:46and only made $36 million worldwide.
21:47So everyone was saying,
21:49stop making movies together
21:50because these are terrible, terrible movies,
21:53and you guys don't look good on screen together.
21:58Just days before the wedding,
22:00the couple made a joint statement
22:02announcing the postponement of their wedding
22:04due to excessive media attention.
22:06Unfortunately, this news went from bad to worse
22:09with the couple announcing their split in 2004.
22:15Jennifer Lopez hit the headlines once again in 2004
22:19when she secretly married Salsa star Mark Anthony.
22:22They had briefly dated in the late 1990s
22:25before his first marriage and her second.
22:28Well, Ben Affleck and J.Lo did not last.
22:31They broke up in January 2004.
22:34Very public breakup.
22:36They said it was the paparazzi
22:37and all the media coverage of their relationship,
22:39but there were other things going on.
22:41You know, people spotted Ben Affleck in strip clubs
22:44and things were going on there,
22:46and she wasn't happy.
22:47So their marriage never happened.
22:49So in January, she's all brokenhearted and sad,
22:53and a friend of hers swoops in to rescue her,
22:56and it's singer Mark Anthony.
22:58He just helps her with her broken heart,
23:00and before you know it, she's married,
23:02and it's only June.
23:03Same year, and she's got her third husband.
23:07It was about a hot five minutes later
23:10that Jennifer was spotted with Mark.
23:12I literally think she and Ben Affleck broke up
23:15and she got on the next plane to Mark Anthony.
23:18Mark and Jennifer had been friends for a long time.
23:22Their relationship had been platonic,
23:24and then they had briefly dated,
23:26and then it was platonic again.
23:27But Mark, I think, was kind of always in love with her.
23:31I think Mark was the guy who is in the background,
23:34who you know adores you
23:36and thinks you're just God's gift to this earth.
23:39And after Ben Affleck kind of broke her heart,
23:42I think Jennifer was looking for that kind of reassurance,
23:46and Mark represented that.
23:48The other thing is, Mark represented Jennifer's roots.
23:51You know, they both speak Spanish.
23:53She sung lots of songs in Spanish.
23:55She loves singing,
23:57and I think she connected with Mark
23:59in a way that she wouldn't have done with Ben Affleck.
24:02And Mark felt familiar.
24:04Mark felt like home.
24:05Mark felt like he embodied something
24:07that was very much a part of her culture growing up as a Latina.
24:10And Mark and Jennifer seemed to make sense.
24:13So they very quickly got together,
24:15and they very quickly got married.
24:17In fact, Mark's divorce was only finalized from Dianara
24:20like a few days before he actually married Jennifer Lopez.
24:29After a year away from the music scene,
24:32J-Lo released her fourth studio album, Rebirth, in 2005.
24:36For her, this was kind of a fresh start.
24:39She had gone through a rough couple years
24:40with her breakup with Ben Affleck.
24:42The movie career wasn't going well.
24:44And, you know, she had a new marriage with Mark Anthony,
24:47so I think she just felt like this was a fresh start for her,
24:49and she didn't have a bunch of love songs to Ben Affleck.
24:52On this album, you know,
24:53she just kept a few simple references to her current husband,
24:56but she was really happy with where the album was.
25:00Although debuting and peaking at number two in the U.S.,
25:03the album quickly fell off the charts.
25:07The album featured the successful single, Get Right.
25:11In the music video, Get Right, J-Lo plays multiple roles.
25:16You'll see her as a bartender.
25:17You'll see her as the go-go dancer.
25:19You even see her as the young working mom, a club goer.
25:23It's just really kind of fun,
25:24where she just is playing multiple roles
25:26throughout the entire song.
25:27And we do get to see another one of those famous J-Lo dance breaks
25:31that just, she kills it right there in the middle of the song.
25:34Take whatever you want, baby, let's ride.
25:37And whatever you want, do let me decide.
25:39Just put your name on the dotted line.
25:42On the dotted line, we can get right.
25:45On the dotted line, we can get right.
25:48We can get right.
25:48We can get right.
25:52On the dotted line, we can get right.
25:58For J-Lo's fifth studio album, Como Ama Una Mujer,
26:00in 2007.
26:02Husband Mark Anthony produced the album,
26:03and it reached the number one spot,
26:05putting J-Lo back on track with her previous musical successes.
26:09For J-Lo's fifth studio album, Como Ama Una Mujer,
26:13you know, this was a Spanish-language album,
26:15and it was the top-selling Spanish-language album ever
26:19for that very first week.
26:20It had extremely strong sales.
26:22The critics weren't as kind, though,
26:24because they said, you know,
26:25we can really kind of hear her vocal quality,
26:27and it's kind of weak and stuff like that,
26:29but that didn't stop the fans from buying the album.
26:32In 2005, J-Lo starred alongside Jane Fonda
26:35in the romantic comedy Monster-in-Law.
26:38She received $15 million for her role in the film.
26:41With a production budget of $43 million,
26:44the film went on to gross a total of $115 million worldwide.
26:49I don't know why people like seeing women fight.
26:51I don't understand it at all myself,
26:53but they like that.
26:54No, but me and Jane had a good time.
26:56It was what?
26:57I think it's the hair-pulling.
26:58The hair-pulling?
26:59The slapping?
27:00Any advice for daughter-in-laws?
27:02How should they behave the best?
27:03Daughter-in-laws, how should they behave the best?
27:06God, just be polite.
27:08Be polite.
27:09Act like your mama taught you some manners.
27:11You know what I mean?
27:11Is this experience any similar to your dealing with mother-in-law,
27:15in general, any mother-in-law?
27:17Um, no, thank God.
27:19No, this is a quite, hopefully, very rare experience for anybody.
27:25Although the person who did write the script, the first girl, Anya,
27:28said that she did have a similar experience,
27:30and that's why she wrote the script.
27:32Thank you, Dad.
27:32So I guess it's out there.
27:33I haven't had it, though.
27:34I've been lucky.
27:38On November 7, 2007,
27:41during the final night of their co-headlining tour,
27:44J-Lo and Marc Anthony confirmed
27:46they were expecting their first child.
27:48The announcement ended months of speculation over the pregnancy.
27:53It was a shock that I was having twins.
27:55I didn't expect, I didn't even think I was pregnant,
27:57to be very honest.
27:58I was like, no, it hasn't happened for me for so long.
28:01I don't know why it would happen now.
28:03And my husband felt like, no, you're pregnant.
28:06You're pregnant.
28:06He had a sentence.
28:07Yeah, and we went to the doctor,
28:10and she checked me, and she was just like,
28:12oh, you're having twins.
28:13And I was like, what?
28:14Of course I am.
28:16Of course I'm having twins.
28:18J-Lo gave birth to a son, Maximilian David,
28:21and a daughter, Emmy Maribel,
28:23in Long Island, New York, on February 22, 2008.
28:29Well, it's funny because, you know,
28:31they are not growing up the way I grew up.
28:33It's a very different kind of existence for them.
28:36I grew up in the Bronx.
28:37You know, both my parents worked their butts off.
28:39And me and Mark work our butts off, too.
28:42But, you know, we have a little bit more than they had,
28:44a lot more than we had when we were growing up.
28:47And so my kids have a different perspective,
28:48and I realize that.
28:50They're going to have a different perspective on life.
28:51And I think one of the most important things to teach them
28:53is that they need to make their own way.
28:55They have to work very hard,
28:56and they have to care about the world around them.
28:58And I hope by doing things like this
29:01that they'll remember from a very young age
29:03that that was something that was always
29:04very important to Mark and I.
29:08In April 2010, J-Lo starred in the romantic comedy
29:11The Backup Plan,
29:12her first film role in over three years.
29:17I didn't see you.
29:18I saw you see me.
29:19Forget it.
29:20I'll get out.
29:20But not because you're right,
29:22but because I'm in a terrific mood,
29:23and you're ruining it.
29:25Here's that guy.
29:26He's hot.
29:27Hi.
29:28Did you follow me?
29:29Follow you?
29:34Okay, now this is getting weird.
29:36I know.
29:36We keep running into each other.
29:37It's crazy.
29:38What are you doing tonight?
29:40You going to see him again?
29:41I think so.
29:41I'll call you.
29:42I'll wait.
29:43Having received a modest $77 million worldwide,
29:47the film received mediocre reviews.
29:50I had a lot of fun with this movie.
29:51You know, I love comedy.
29:52You can have a lot of fun on a set
29:54when you're doing a comedy every day.
29:56And working for Alex is amazing.
29:58You know, he was a lot of fun to play with.
30:00And the film's called The Backup Plan.
30:02Yes.
30:02Obviously, you're a businesswoman,
30:04entrepreneur, singer, actress.
30:06Did you have a backup plan?
30:07I really didn't.
30:08I really didn't.
30:09I don't think you can in this business.
30:11If you want to be in this business so competitive
30:13that you have to really be focused
30:15and you can't have, like,
30:16oh, I'll fall back on this or whatever.
30:18You can't.
30:19You just have to go,
30:19no, this is what I'm going to do.
30:21And how much of the character
30:22was you just actually being yourself
30:24and remembering being pregnant?
30:25And how much of it was acting?
30:26It was acting.
30:27It was acting.
30:28It was all acting.
30:30No, it wasn't me being myself.
30:32I think Zoe and I are very different
30:33in many ways.
30:34You know, she was kind of a loner.
30:36I'm so not a loner.
30:38I love being around my family
30:39and friends and stuff.
30:41And she was also emotionally
30:42very different than I was.
30:43And it was fun.
30:45And how has having children,
30:47how has it changed your life?
30:48Oh, God.
30:49I mean, it just changes you as a person.
30:52You know, your whole perspective
30:53on life is different
30:55because now your heart has opened up
30:57in a way that you never knew it could.
31:00And it just changes you.
31:01It changes you.
31:02I mean, there's a scene in the movie,
31:04a couple of scenes where I was, like,
31:05eating and peeing out.
31:06They were going to put them in
31:07in the first cut.
31:07And I was like, listen, you guys.
31:09This is very important for women.
31:11They need to see me peeing out.
31:13This is what happens when you're pregnant.
31:14You get really sleepy.
31:15You get really hungry.
31:16You have gas, okay?
31:18It's all right.
31:18They're going to lie.
31:19Trust me.
31:20So, yeah, we were very, like,
31:22me and the writer,
31:22who's also a woman
31:23and had just gotten her own pregnancy,
31:25were very adamant about those things.
31:28And obviously Zoe,
31:29in the end,
31:29she can have it all.
31:30She can have the family
31:31and the man.
31:33I mean, how do you balance work
31:34and looking after your children?
31:36I mean, it's a tough balancing act.
31:38It really is.
31:39You know, I wouldn't say
31:40that my life is easier.
31:42It's harder now,
31:43but it's just, it's better.
31:44You know, life is just
31:46more beautiful now.
31:47And you say you love making comedy.
31:49Yeah.
31:49What was the most fun scene in this?
31:52The most fun scene
31:53was probably the water burst scene.
31:54And I don't want to give
31:55too much away,
31:56but you'll laugh.
31:57Trust me, you're going to laugh.
31:58I love that.
32:03In June 2010,
32:05following the departure
32:05of Ellen DeGeneres
32:07from American Idol,
32:08it was reported
32:08that Jennifer Lopez
32:09was in talks
32:10to join Season 10's
32:11judging panel.
32:12During the same time,
32:14J-Lo and Anthony
32:15were being considered
32:16for a role
32:16on The X Factor
32:17for their appeal
32:18to Latin
32:19and international markets.
32:22When Jennifer Lopez
32:23said yes to American Idol,
32:25she was, you know,
32:26she was in her 40s.
32:27She had had a couple of films
32:30that didn't do that well
32:30at the box office.
32:32And I think she saw it
32:33as an opportunity
32:34to kind of revitalize
32:35her career.
32:36Well, a lot of people
32:37didn't think it was going to,
32:39but in fact,
32:40Jennifer was completely
32:41right about it.
32:42She added so much
32:44to the show.
32:45She was the perfect judge
32:46who sat alongside,
32:47you know,
32:48people like Keith Urban.
32:49She has that emotive,
32:51emotional quality
32:52where she would tear up
32:53when she heard somebody
32:55sing something beautifully.
32:56She was funny.
32:57She's naturally funny.
32:59And she was a perfect judge
33:00and she did a fantastic job
33:02on the show.
33:02It not only revitalized
33:04her career,
33:04but it also revitalized
33:05the program.
33:07After her debut
33:08on the show in 2011,
33:10J-Lo released her comeback
33:11single On the Floor.
33:13This was a great comeback
33:14single for her
33:15because she hadn't had
33:16that massive success
33:17she had had earlier
33:18in the decade.
33:19So for her,
33:19this was a great way
33:21to remind fans,
33:22I'm an artist
33:23and let me show you
33:24what I've got.
33:24If you go hard,
33:25you gotta get
33:26on the floor.
33:28If you're a party freak,
33:30then step on the floor.
33:32If you're an animal,
33:33then tear up the floor.
33:35Break a sweat on the floor.
33:37Yeah, we work on the floor.
33:39Don't stop,
33:40keep it moving,
33:41put your drinks up.
33:43Woo!
33:43Keep your body up
33:44and drop it on the floor.
33:46Let the rhythm change
33:48your world on the floor.
33:51The song topped the charts
33:52across the globe,
33:53becoming one of the most
33:54successful singles
33:56of the year.
33:58From 2011 through 2016,
34:01J-Lo graced
34:02the American Idol
34:02judging table
34:03with a positive
34:04and supportive attitude
34:05towards contestants.
34:07It was seen as
34:08the remaking of her career,
34:10a steady gig
34:11that saw her through
34:12her divorce
34:12from Mark Anthony.
34:14You know,
34:15after I did American Idol
34:16and, you know,
34:17before that,
34:18you're so guarded
34:19as an artist,
34:20you know,
34:20you don't know
34:21how much to give,
34:22how much to reveal.
34:23You reveal a little bit
34:24through your music,
34:25through the characters
34:25you play.
34:26But once I did Idol
34:27and I really let people
34:29in to see
34:30who I really was
34:32as a person,
34:33since then I realized
34:34that that has
34:34its benefits to it.
34:35It also, you know,
34:37there's nothing wrong
34:38with showing
34:38your vulnerabilities
34:39and who you really are.
34:41And I don't know.
34:44I don't regret it.
34:45I always do
34:46what feels right
34:47in the moment.
34:47I follow my gut.
34:50For months,
34:51there had been rumors
34:52circulating
34:52in the showbiz world
34:54about the impending
34:55breakup of J-Lo
34:56and Anthony.
34:56In 2011,
34:58Jennifer Lopez
34:59and Mark Anthony
35:00officially announced
35:01their split
35:01with Anthony
35:02filing for divorce
35:03in April 2012.
35:08After a successful
35:09few months,
35:10J-Lo was back
35:11to doing
35:11what she does best.
35:13She released
35:14her eighth studio album,
35:16AKA.
35:17It was released
35:17on June 13, 2014
35:19by Capitol Records,
35:21experiencing weak sales.
35:23The album produced
35:24three singles,
35:25including Booty,
35:26featuring Pitbull
35:27and rapper
35:28Icky Azalea.
35:29In June 2014,
35:31J-Lo released
35:32her latest album,
35:33AKA,
35:34which was based
35:34off of all of her
35:35travels around the world
35:36from her last tour.
35:38It really had inspired her.
35:39And she had this
35:40fantastic single
35:41off the album
35:42with Iggy Azalea
35:43called Booty.
35:44And if you have
35:45seen the video,
35:46you know what I'm
35:47talking about.
35:48It's a lot of
35:48oiled booty.
35:50Booty debuted
35:51inside the top 20
35:52in the United States,
35:53making it her
35:54second highest debut
35:55on the Billboard Hot 100
35:56after her infamous
35:58single,
35:58On the Floor.
36:00Her successful
36:01acting roles continued
36:02as she starred
36:03in the NBC
36:04crime drama series
36:05Shades of Blue
36:06as Detective
36:07Harley Santos,
36:08a single mother
36:09and police detective
36:10who goes undercover
36:11for the FBI
36:12in order to investigate
36:13her own squad.
36:15J-Lo also worked
36:16as an executive producer
36:17for the show,
36:18which had three
36:19successful series
36:20and premiered
36:21in January 2016.
36:24I think the most
36:25fun part of playing
36:26Harley is she's
36:26so unlike,
36:27she's so much
36:28tougher than I am
36:29in real life
36:30and so steely
36:32and so like
36:33in control of her
36:34emotions,
36:34whereas I really
36:36am not most of the
36:37time.
36:39We have similarities,
36:40but I think just,
36:42you know,
36:42her kind of
36:43not care attitude,
36:44you know,
36:46I wish I didn't
36:47care as much
36:47sometimes.
36:50In May 2015,
36:51Jennifer Lopez
36:53announced her
36:53Las Vegas
36:54Residency Concert Show,
36:55which commenced
36:56on January 20,
36:582016.
36:59She signed
37:00a three-year contract
37:01at Planet Hollywood's
37:02Zappos Theater,
37:03which saw her
37:04perform 120 shows.
37:07It was amazing
37:08to see J-Lo's
37:09residency in Las Vegas
37:10do so well,
37:11because in a career
37:13that has had
37:13so many amazing highs,
37:15it really shows
37:16just how powerful
37:17and popular,
37:19with so many
37:20different audiences,
37:21she is.
37:22And again,
37:23it was a tramp,
37:24and it was something
37:25that I think shows,
37:26again,
37:26she's not just
37:26this great actress,
37:27but she's an amazing
37:29overall entertainer.
37:31Having a residency
37:32in Las Vegas
37:33really solidified
37:34Jennifer Lopez
37:35as a music sensation.
37:37The residency
37:38concluded on
37:39September 29,
37:402018,
37:41having grossed
37:42over $100 million
37:43in ticket sales
37:44during its
37:45three-year run.
37:46She was so great
37:48in Las Vegas.
37:49She did something
37:49like 120 shows
37:51over three years,
37:52and every single night
37:53she put the same
37:54hard work and dedication
37:55into making it
37:56a fantastic evening.
37:57In my career
37:58as a reporter,
37:59I've known lots of people
38:00who have either
38:01worked with her
38:02or spent time with her,
38:03and everyone says
38:05the same thing.
38:05She's the hardest
38:06working person
38:07in showbiz.
38:09She's incredibly disciplined.
38:10I know someone
38:11who was in business meetings
38:12with her,
38:13where they would
38:13literally come in
38:14with a certain snack
38:15at an exact time of day
38:17because that's
38:18when she would eat
38:19her, you know,
38:20boiled eggs
38:20or carrot sticks
38:21or whatever it was.
38:22She is so regimented
38:23and disciplined
38:24about her eating
38:24and her exercise
38:25and her work.
38:27She never misses
38:28a rehearsal.
38:29She never misses
38:29a workout.
38:31Her work ethic
38:32is the stuff
38:33of legends.
38:34I think there's
38:35a raw talent
38:36and a hard work ethic,
38:37and you cannot
38:38fault her for that.
38:39March 2017
38:40saw romance bloom
38:42once again
38:43for Jennifer Lopez.
38:44She confirmed
38:45her relationship
38:46with former professional
38:47baseball player
38:48Alex Rodriguez,
38:49posting loved-up photos
38:50to her Instagram page.
38:52In October of the same year,
38:54the pair made plans
38:55to move in together,
38:56proving their relationship
38:57was serious.
38:58The reason she and A-Rod
38:59are such a perfect couple
39:02is that A-Rod
39:03has the same kind
39:05of hard-working,
39:06athletic,
39:08discipline,
39:08part of his ethos
39:09that Jennifer does.
39:11In April 2018,
39:14Jennifer Lopez
39:15was named
39:15one of Time's
39:16100 Most Influential
39:17People in the World,
39:19proving that she
39:20has maintained
39:20her popularity
39:21over the years.
39:22With earnings
39:23of $47 million
39:24between June 2017
39:26and June 2018,
39:28Forbes listed J-Lo
39:29as the sixth
39:30highest-paid woman
39:31in music.
39:34In February 2019,
39:36J-Lo announced
39:37that she would embark
39:38on her first concert tour
39:39in nearly seven years
39:41to celebrate
39:42her upcoming
39:4250th birthday.
39:44Titled,
39:44It's My Party,
39:45the international tour
39:47ran from June to August,
39:48grossing an estimated
39:49$54.7 million
39:51from 38 shows.
39:56I try to take care
39:57of myself.
39:58You know,
39:58it's not easy
39:59for anybody.
40:00I think as you get older,
40:01you know,
40:01you think about it
40:02and you go,
40:03okay,
40:03I want to maintain
40:04a youthful quality.
40:06I want to be able
40:07to run around
40:07with my kids.
40:09You know,
40:09all of those things.
40:10And you have to work at it.
40:12I do work out
40:13and I do try
40:14to eat right.
40:14And,
40:15you know,
40:16I don't always want to,
40:18but I do.
40:19I force myself at times
40:21and I think
40:22that's what it takes.
40:23You have to put
40:23in the hard work.
40:24Nothing comes easy.
40:26If you see anybody
40:27doing something
40:28and then you're like,
40:29wow,
40:29look at that.
40:30It's because they're
40:31working hard,
40:31for sure.
40:32And not always
40:33because they want to.
40:35Because I know I don't.
40:39The following month,
40:41while on their beach vacation
40:42in the Bahamas in March,
40:44Alex Rodriguez
40:45asked J-Lo to marry him.
40:49Naturally,
40:50the two documented
40:51the engagement
40:51on Instagram
40:52where fans are treated
40:53to picturesque shots
40:55of the proposal
40:55and the stunning
40:56diamond ring.
41:01Jennifer Lopez
41:02made an impactful
41:03return to acting
41:04in the film Hustlers
41:05for which she also
41:06served as an executive
41:07producer alongside
41:08director Lorene Scarfaria.
41:12The thing about
41:13J-Lo in Hustlers
41:14is that she was
41:16completely running
41:17circles around
41:18all of the other women
41:19in the movie
41:20with her acting chops.
41:21And it was fascinating
41:22because even though
41:23she is 20 years older
41:25than some of her co-stars,
41:27she seemed as a peer
41:29to them.
41:29It wasn't like
41:30she was trying
41:30to play younger.
41:31It wasn't like
41:32she was trying
41:33to be the matriarch.
41:34She just was natural.
41:35And that's one
41:36I think that's so appealing
41:37about J-Lo.
41:38And I think why
41:38she got such great
41:39acclaim for Hustlers
41:40is because she's
41:42kind of this
41:42ageless enigma.
41:44Like she's just sexy
41:45and cool regardless.
41:47There's a scene
41:48at the end of Hustlers
41:48where she's walking
41:49down the road
41:49and she has like
41:50a crop top
41:51and like a puffy coat on.
41:53And you know,
41:54my mind is going,
41:55I know she's 50 years old,
41:57but it doesn't look like
41:58she's trying to dress young.
41:59It doesn't look like
42:00she's trying to,
42:02you know,
42:02be something she's not.
42:04It's just who she is
42:05and it works for her.
42:06So it's really good
42:07kind of as a role model
42:08too for women.
42:10If you're being
42:11your authentic self,
42:11you can dress
42:12however you want,
42:13be whoever you want.
42:14And that's J-Lo
42:15to a T.
42:16The film is inspired
42:17by a true story
42:18following a group
42:19of Manhattan strippers
42:21who con wealthy men
42:22for their money.
42:23Especially for a movie
42:24like Hustlers.
42:24Yeah.
42:25It's all about girl talent.
42:26I know.
42:26I mean,
42:27you know,
42:28being involved
42:28with a movie like this,
42:29producing a movie like this,
42:30starring in a movie like this,
42:31it's like a dream come true.
42:33We all feel
42:34so incredibly proud,
42:36you know,
42:36to have got this movie made
42:38and to have so many women
42:40working in the key positions
42:41of producer,
42:41director,
42:42stars.
42:43It's an amazing thing.
42:45And the movie itself,
42:46Lorraine did a fantastic job
42:48and so did everybody.
42:49So I'm excited
42:50for people to see it.
42:53J-Lo's portrayal
42:54of a manipulative stripper
42:56garnered acclaim from critics,
42:57with some deeming it
42:58the best acting performance
42:59of her career,
43:01which was Oscar-worthy.
43:02The film also gave J-Lo
43:04her highest opening weekend
43:05at the box office.
43:07She garnered nominations
43:08for Best Supporting Actress
43:09at the Golden Globe Awards,
43:11Screen Actors Guild Awards,
43:13Critics' Choice Movie Awards,
43:14and Independent Spirit Awards.
43:15The success of Hustlers
43:17was regarded
43:18by various media outlets
43:19as a symbolic comeback
43:21for Jennifer Lopez.
43:23In September 2019,
43:25it was revealed
43:26that Jennifer Lopez
43:27would co-headline
43:28the Super Bowl 2020
43:29alongside Shakira.
43:31The women made history
43:32as the first Latina artist
43:34to headline
43:35the Super Bowl halftime show.
43:36Two Latinas doing this
43:39at this time
43:39in this country
43:40at this time,
43:41it's just very empowering
43:42for us.
43:43And for me,
43:45I'm very proud
43:46to be able to help set
43:48and push forth
43:49that message.
43:50The show combined
43:51both singer's best
43:52and beloved hits
43:53alongside an indomitable display
43:55of hip-shaking
43:56and hair-flipping.
43:58When we finished
43:58the first run-through,
44:01you know,
44:01Shakira looked at me,
44:02she was like,
44:02that was amazing.
44:03And I was like,
44:03no, you were amazing.
44:04And I think it was very,
44:07she was like,
44:07it's different what we do.
44:08And I said,
44:09well, it's very Shakira
44:10and it's very Jennifer.
44:12And I think that's what
44:13you're going to get
44:13from the performance.
44:14Your show and my show
44:16feel very different
44:17but very complementary.
44:18They complement each other.
44:19And I think that
44:20we've been working so hard
44:22the past weeks
44:23to make sure that
44:24everything is as good
44:25as we can feel it,
44:30that it is.
44:30And so everybody
44:32can enjoy this Sunday,
44:35enjoy a great show.
44:37And we hope that
44:38it will be a great show.
44:45After his split from J-Lo,
44:46Ben Affleck also
44:47quickly moved on.
44:48He married actress
44:50Jennifer Garner in 2005
44:51and the new Hollywood couple
44:53welcomed three children
44:54together over the years.
44:56Daughters Violet
44:57and Serafina Affleck
44:58and son Samuel Affleck.
45:01Ben Affleck began
45:03his acting career comeback
45:04with his highly acclaimed
45:05performance as Superman
45:06actor George Reeves
45:07in the noir biopic
45:09Hollywoodland.
45:10He was awarded
45:11the Volpe Cup
45:11at the Venice Film Festival
45:13and was nominated
45:14for a Golden Globe
45:15for Best Supporting Actor.
45:17I was really eager to.
45:19I had a sense that
45:20whoever was lucky enough
45:21to play the part
45:24would have a real opportunity
45:26on their hands
45:26because it's pretty rich
45:28in terms of
45:29what you're able to do with it.
45:30A lot of movies
45:31sort of rush past
45:32character and stuff
45:34and have to
45:35blast through
45:36to keep the plot going
45:37whereas this really took time
45:39to sort of
45:40examine the nuances
45:41of the guy
45:42and a lot of
45:43different sides of him
45:43so it was nice.
45:44You know,
45:45I've had a kind of
45:46interesting career
45:46because I've done
45:47a lot of different
45:48kinds of things
45:49and I've done some stuff
45:50that's kind of
45:51character interesting
45:52supporting roles
45:52like this
45:53and I've done
45:53some sort of
45:55larger
45:55more like
45:56bloated action
45:58you know
45:59big movies like that
46:00and kind of
46:01you know
46:01look on balance
46:02these are much more interesting
46:04you do much better
46:05in the pocketbook
46:06doing the other
46:06kind of movies
46:07but it's
46:07you know
46:08I've seen it
46:08kind of from both sides
46:09that isn't really
46:11the way in which
46:12I feel like
46:12I've experienced
46:13being typecast
46:14I think typecasting now
46:15has more to do
46:16with people's
46:17familiarity with you
46:19through gossip magazines
46:20and entertainment
46:21television shows
46:21where they have
46:22a sense of
46:23familiarity
46:24with actors
46:25that sometimes
46:26prevents them
46:27from kind of
46:28seeing the actor
46:29as the character
46:30they're playing
46:30I think you do better
46:32to stay out of that
46:33as much as you possibly can
46:34although that's not
46:35something I succeeded
46:37at doing
46:38very well
46:40Ben Affleck
46:41soon began
46:42on his next
46:43directorial project
46:44Argo
46:44in 2012
46:45for Warner Brothers
46:47I just feel
46:49so incredibly
46:50honored to be nominated
46:52as a producer
46:52for this movie
46:53to be here
46:53at the big party
46:55you know
46:56it's tremendous
46:56I mean we got
46:57seven nominations
46:58including best picture
46:59I'm elated
47:01by that
47:02truly
47:02genuinely
47:02thrilled
47:03and
47:04like I said
47:05there are nine
47:05amazing movies
47:06any of which could win
47:07any of which would
47:08deserve to win
47:09if they did
47:10so I don't get into
47:12worrying too much
47:12about who got what
47:14and didn't get what
47:15I mean
47:15you know
47:15I've had many
47:16many many many
47:17many many years
47:18watching from home
47:21I thought
47:21I was excited
47:22about making the movie
47:23these guys had a script
47:24I really liked it
47:24I called them up
47:25said I got a take for it
47:26you know
47:27will you put me on the movie
47:28and I wanted to do the movie
47:30and I wanted to work with them
47:31that's what I thought
47:33would happen
47:34you know
47:34I wanted to work on something quality
47:35I did the movie
47:36we all worked really hard
47:37I hoped that people would like it
47:38I didn't take
47:39a more meta
47:41you know
47:42approach to it
47:43than that
47:43I was excited to make it
47:44I was excited to work
47:45with these guys
47:45the cast we had
47:46and you know
47:47I was willing to let the chips
47:48kind of fall where they may
47:49as long as we thought
47:50we had done something
47:51that we were interested in
47:55in 2014
47:56he pushed back production
47:58on his own directorial project
47:59to star as a husband
48:01accused of murder
48:02in David Fincher's
48:03psychological thriller
48:04Gone Girl
48:05Fincher cast him partly
48:07because he understood
48:08what it felt like
48:09to be misrepresented
48:10by tabloid media
48:14sadly in 2015
48:16Ben Affleck
48:17and Jennifer Garner
48:18publicly announced
48:19their separation
48:20in June 2015
48:21with Affleck
48:23continuing to live
48:24in a guest house
48:24at the family home
48:25until mid 2017
48:27they jointly filed
48:29for divorce
48:29in April 2017
48:31seeking joint physical
48:32and legal custody
48:33of their children
48:34and it was finalized
48:35in October 2018
48:41Given Affleck's
48:42growing reputation
48:43as a filmmaker
48:44his decision
48:45to star as Batman
48:46in the 2016 superhero film
48:48Batman vs. Superman
48:50Dawn of Justice
48:51was regarded
48:52as a bewildering choice
48:53Although the casting
48:55announcement was met
48:55with intense fan backlash
48:57Affleck's performance
48:58ultimately earned
48:59a positive reception
49:04Breathe it in
49:31Affleck reprised his role
49:33as Batman
49:33later that year
49:34making a brief cameo
49:36appearance
49:36in Suicide Squad
49:37in 2016
49:41He starred
49:42as an autistic
49:42accountant
49:43in the action thriller
49:44The Accountant
49:45in 2016
49:46which was an unexpected
49:48commercial success
49:51There was a need
49:53to do research
49:54around autism
49:54so that we got
49:55that right
49:56and we wanted
49:56to make a fun movie
49:57that people would like
49:58and that was entertaining
49:58but it had to be
49:59rooted in
50:01something true
50:02that was recognizable
50:03to people
50:03I just got a letter
50:05from a friend of mine
50:05whose son is autistic
50:06and he said
50:06you know
50:07if my son turns out
50:08to be an assassin
50:09I'll be thrilled
50:09so I took that
50:11as high praise
50:13Ben Affleck's starring role
50:15as a recovering alcoholic
50:16in the sports drama
50:17The Way Back
50:18in 2020
50:19was widely praised
50:20The themes of the movie
50:21were close to home
50:22for Affleck
50:25Life, you know
50:26ebbs and flows
50:26There are natural
50:28difficulties
50:29I had this like
50:31kind of
50:33I don't know what
50:34very early success
50:35as a very young man
50:38which is difficult
50:39to manage
50:39I think at any age
50:40but particularly
50:41when you're young
50:41and I had some stuff work
50:42and some stuff didn't
50:43and I ran afoul
50:44of the press a little bit
50:45and became overexposed
50:46causing me to kind of
50:47turn around and question
50:48and maybe I was being
50:48a little bit hyperbolic
50:49for effect in the speech
50:50but caused me to question
50:52like what do I want
50:52to do in this industry
50:53do I have anything to offer
50:54what should I be doing
50:55how can I best express myself
50:57and that was around the time
50:58that I took up directing
50:58and I really view this
51:00as connected to that decision
51:01because that decision
51:02was about
51:03you know
51:04was really fraught with
51:05can I do it
51:05can I make it
51:06can I really direct movies
51:07and be a director
51:07and to be at the DGA
51:08to be honored with an award
51:09by the DGA
51:11is definitely more
51:12than I ever imagined
51:12on the first day
51:13of shooting of Gone Baby Gone
51:22after JLo ended
51:23her engagement
51:24to Alex Rodriguez
51:25and Ben Affleck
51:26had split from Ana de Armas
51:27the two were spotted
51:28hanging out again
51:29in 2021
51:31however
51:31sources claimed
51:32that the pair
51:33being spotted together
51:34was purely platonic
51:35claiming they had
51:36never not been friends
51:44then after nearly
51:46two decades
51:46after they first split
51:48JLo and Ben Affleck
51:49were spotted
51:49heading off
51:50for a week-long
51:51vacation to Montana
51:54following the vacation
51:55the singer flew out
51:56to Los Angeles
51:57to spend more time
51:58with her former fiance
51:59determined not to let
52:00distance affect
52:01their reunion
52:02the press and their fans
52:03were going crazy
52:04over the constantly
52:05appearing images
52:06of the couple
52:07being spotted together
52:11weeks later
52:12Affleck also reportedly
52:14took a flight
52:14to JLo's residence
52:15in Miami
52:16to spend more
52:17cozy quality time
52:18with her
52:18the pair quickly
52:20began spending
52:21all their free time
52:21together
52:22blending their children
52:23into one big family
52:27then in April 2022
52:29in an exclusive video
52:31published in her
52:31personal fan newsletter
52:32JLo announced
52:34that she and Affleck
52:35had gotten engaged
52:35a year after reuniting
52:37he proposed to her
52:38while she was
52:39taking a bubble bath
52:41the video featured
52:42JLo beaming
52:43as she showed off
52:44her new engagement ring
52:45an emerald cut
52:46pale green diamond
52:49Jennifer Lopez
52:50and Ben Affleck
52:51tied the knot
52:52in a surprise
52:52Las Vegas wedding
52:53at midnight
52:54on July 17th
52:552022
52:56the singer
52:57confirmed the news
52:58in her newsletter
52:59on the JLo
53:00saying that
53:00a low-key ceremony
53:01in a chapel
53:02was exactly
53:03what the two wanted
53:04after their
53:05surprise nuptials
53:06the pair
53:07jetted off to Paris
53:08for a sunny
53:09summer holiday
53:09and brought along
53:10their kids
53:11they hosted
53:12a star-studded
53:13second private
53:14wedding ceremony
53:14in August 2022
53:16and embarked
53:17on a second
53:17honeymoon trip
53:18to Italy
53:25Ahead of the release
53:27of her forthcoming
53:28album
53:28This Is Me Now
53:29and in honor
53:30of the 20th
53:31anniversary
53:31of her third
53:32studio album
53:33This Is Me Then
53:34JLo sat down
53:36with Zane Lowe
53:36for Apple Music
53:37to talk about
53:38her latest
53:39musical venture
53:39during their
53:40conversation
53:41she opened up
53:42about how Affleck
53:43inspired her
53:44to get into
53:44the recording studio
53:45in both instances
53:4620 years ago
53:48and now
54:07In 2021
54:08Affleck appeared
54:09as a substitute
54:10father figure
54:11in George Clooney's
54:12coming-of-age drama
54:13The Tender Bar
54:15A friend of mine
54:16Clee Duvall
54:17who's an actor
54:17who's in Argo
54:18gave me the book
54:19a long time ago
54:19a long time ago
54:21and I read it
54:22I really liked it
54:22and then I
54:23I didn't even know
54:24George was adapting
54:25and I got an email
54:26from him
54:26who was actually
54:27out of the country
54:27saying hey
54:28do you want to
54:28come do this
54:28and I was like
54:30this is sort of
54:30fell from the heavens
54:32you know
54:32it's this amazing part
54:33he kept on
54:34he kept on
54:36he thinks it's an award
54:39but
54:41he's really
54:42a wonderful guy
54:43and a storyteller
54:44highest order
54:45and a brilliant
54:46director
54:46particularly for actors
54:47it was like
54:47it was a gift
54:48you know
54:49he really
54:49was so generous
54:51in the way
54:51he helped me
54:52with the performance
54:53and the advice
54:54he had
54:55and the experience
54:56itself was really
54:58wonderful
55:00for the role
55:01Affleck was nominated
55:02for the Golden Globe Award
55:03and Screen Actors Guild Award
55:05for Best Supporting Actor
55:07he also had a supporting role
55:09in Ridley Scott's
55:10The Last Duel
55:19this same year
55:20J-Lo starred opposite
55:22Owen Wilson and Maluma
55:23in the romantic comedy
55:24Marry Me
55:25released in February 2022
55:27the film grossed
55:29over $50 million
55:30at the box office
55:31while becoming
55:32the most streamed
55:33day and date film
55:34on Peacock
55:34and received
55:35generally mixed reviews
55:36from critics
55:39this is
55:40something I know
55:42intimately
55:42you know
55:43you know
55:44a lot of actresses
55:45could play
55:46something like this
55:46but
55:47knowing it
55:48in the way
55:48that I do
55:49I think really
55:50helped me
55:51play this role
55:52in a very authentic
55:54and real way
55:55because in every moment
55:56I knew exactly
55:59all of the scenes
56:00like this is what
56:01is happening here
56:02this is what it's like
56:03no that's not
56:04how I would say it
56:05that's not how
56:06it would go
56:07so I was able
56:08to really input
56:09on the script
56:10in that way
56:12to make every
56:13little detail right
56:18since their romantic
56:20reunion
56:20the couple has been
56:21publicly supporting
56:22each other's
56:23career milestones
56:24and I'll see you next time
57:02We'll see you next time.
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