BEN AFFLECK JENNIFER LOPEZ. After getting engaged last April and twenty years after their first romance, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got married in Las Vegas. What we know.
[Mis à jour le 18 juillet 2022 à 10h37] They said yes ! Twenty years after their first relationship, and just three months after their second engagement, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got married this Saturday, July 16, 2022. The couple would have flown to Las Vegas for an express wedding.
On the newsletter of her site “On the JLO”, Jennifer Lopez returned to her marriage to Ben Affleck. “Last night we flew to Vegas, stood in line with four other couples to get licensed,” she wrote. “We got to the little white chapel just in time, midnight. They kindly stayed open for a few more minutes, let us take pictures in a convertible pink Cadillac, used of course in the past by the King himself .” After the exchange of vows and rings, the couple finally united, 18 years after the breakdown of their first engagement. “It was the most beautiful wedding we could have imagined. […] It was the best night of our lives.” She signed her Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck newsletter.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez met in 2002, on the set of the movie “Gigli”. For two years, the couple made tabloid headlines. They were to marry in 2004 but ended up breaking their engagement, after two years of love. The couple had reformed in 2021, almost twenty years after their separation and to everyone’s surprise and had ignited the red carpet of the last Venice Film Festival.
The first years
Ben Affleck was born in Berkeley on August 15, 1972. He began his career very young, at the age of eight in commercials and appeared in cinema for the first time in 1981 in the film The Dark End of the Street. Then, he played in television series and in TV movies in the 1980s. During his studies at Harvard, he met his best friend Matt Damon and ends up abandoning his studies to devote himself to cinema.
The two men met for the first time on screen in 1992 in The difference by Robert Mandel. In 1997, he co-wrote with Damon the film Will Hunting including the scenario and the secondary actor, Robin Williams, won the Oscars. Ben Affleck is then predicted a bright future and this is how we find him in big budget films like Armageddon (1998) or Pearl Harbor (2001) and also in hit comedies such as the multi-Academy Award-winning, Shakespeare In Love (1999).
Crossing the desert
Between 2002 and 2004, the highly publicized relationship he had with the singer and actress Jennifer Lopez causes a severe slowdown in his career. Most of the movies they star in are commercial failures the most significant of which is undoubtedly Troubled loves with Lopez, a monumental failure linked to the hype around the couple who separated a year later. Finally, on the film set DaredevilAffleck finds Jennifer Garner to whom he had already given the reply on the film Pearl Harbor. The two actors marry and become parents of three children. After a period during which he chained unsuccessful castings, the label of boyfriend of Jennifer Lopez still sticking to his skin, he found the way to the sets in 2006 with Hollywoodland where he plays the late George Reeves.
Rebirth as director
He tried his hand at directing in 2009 with the detective film Gone Baby Gone in which he directs his brother Casey Affleck. The same year, he resumed his acting position to shoot what men think and the thriller Power games next to Russell Crowe. The following year, he directed the thriller The Town with Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall and Jeremy Renner at the casting. For this, he received rave reviews from the press. He then finds Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner in The Company Mena low-budget feature film debut from director John Wells.
Ben Affleck confirms his rebirth as a director by finally receiving recognition from his peers in 2013. Indeed, his film Argo about the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, won the Oscar for Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing. In addition, Affleck seized the same year of the Golden Globes for Best Director. This rain of rewards earned him the role of the next Batman in which he faced Superman in dark rooms in 2015. The film and its Justice League sequel did not, however, allow him to return to the front of the stage. After a new slump, marked by his divorce from Jennifer Garner and addiction problems, he returns to the front of the stage in The Way Back (2020) and The Last Duel (2021).
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez lived a romance from 2002 to 2004, after meeting on the set of the movie “Gigli”. After a quick engagement, the couple broke up two years later. The reasons for their breakup were not mentioned, but the excessive media attention that the couple received was mentioned to explain this choice. Each on their side, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez lived romances and got married, before divorcing. In 2021, the two actors decide to give their couple a chance. They are getting married in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022.
Ben Affleck met Jennifer Garner on the set of the film Pearl Harbor in 2001. They then found themselves starring in the feature film Daredevil the following year. But it was from 2004, after filming together again for the film Elektra, that they officially became a couple. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner got married on June 29, 2005 on a beach in Parrot Cay. They are parents of three children: Violet Anne (2005), Seraphina Rose Elisabeth (2009) and Samuel (2012). The couple separated on June 29, 2015 and formalized their divorce two years later. They would have remained on good terms, evoking wanting the well-being of their children.