Jennifer Lopez’s most recent endeavor—a $20 million multimedia extravaganza consisting of an album, a musical film, and a documentary—is the subject of a Tuesday feature by Variety’s Stephen Rodrick, who discusses the “Let’s Get Loud” singer’s career.
The three-part series will center on Ben Affleck, Lopez’s husband, and follow the theme of “Lopez’s life as a serial romantic,” as stated by Rodrick. Rodrick had the opportunity to watch excerpts from the documentary, which Affleck dubbed “The Greatest Love Story Never Told” after a string of intimate love letters he composed for Lopez.
Part of the three-part project is Lopez’s new album, “This Is Me … Now,” a successor to her 2002 album, “This Is Me … Then.” In one scene of the documentary, Lopez reportedly invites a group of musicians to her house to assist her in writing the song, according to Rodrick.
Affleck catches Lopez red-handed as she tries to motivate her fellow musicians by writing that Lopez shared all of Affleck’s love letters with them.
“In the documentary, Affleck comes into the room and seems taken aback when he sees his letters being bandied about,” Rodrick writes. “He says to the camera, ‘I did really find the beauty and the poetry and the irony in the fact that it’s the greatest love story never told. If you’re making a record about it, that seems kind of like telling it.’”
A lot of people were not happy when this section of Rodrick’s profile appeared on X (previously Twitter). This decision is even more puzzling considering that Affleck has previously said that the lack of privacy was a contributing factor in the breakup of his engagement with Lopez in 2004.
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“I would say [media attention] was about 50 percent [of what destroyed our relationship],” the “Air” star told Howard Stern in 2021, via Bazaar.
“The idea that people hate you and they hate you together and that being together is poison and ugly and toxic and the thing none of us want to be part of … And, ‘Who the fuck would want to have them to dinner?’ And, ‘What the fuck are they doing together?’”
It is pointed out by Rodrick in another part of the Variety story that Affleck suggests in the documentary that he is not happy about his wife becoming public with their private lives, but is “grudgingly” supporting her.
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