Ben Affleck continues to be getting used to the “bananas” stage of fame of his spouse, Jennifer Lopez.
The “Gone Girl” star sat down with Kevin Hart for an expansive interview this week amid rumors of marital strife and, regardless of admitting that his public “resting bitch face” is likely to be fueling the speculation, famous simply how well-known Lopez actually is — and the way troublesome that may be.
Affleck defined that even his children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner are conscious he’s involved about elevating them within the highlight. He famous certainly one of them even cheekily bugs him with titles for a hypothetical tell-all, and recalled one notably related second in New York Metropolis.
“I get out with [Lopez], all the kids, through Times Square,” stated Affleck in his “Hart to Heart” chat, “and the shit was fucking bananas. It was like the mayor [arrived] … and there’s this lady, she’s smoking weed, wearing a purple, skintight suit … and she sees [us].”
“She starts running backwards, filming, going, ‘JLo!’” he continued. “It’s like a herald that then gets everyone else, and then they’re all [starstruck] tourists. Then I’m moving, we got our five kids, me and Jen, and it feels like hundreds of people — and they’re all screaming.”
“And my daughter just turns to me and goes, ‘JLo Was My Stepmother,’” Affleck joked.
Whereas definitely well-known himself, the actor noticed his first engagement with Lopez in 2002 known as off after relentless tabloid press. Affleck, who married Garner in 2005 however divorced her in 2018, continues to be studying the right way to navigate that fame.
“I really fucking second-guess it a lot,” he advised Hart about elevating his children that approach. “That’s the balance, and I talk with Jennifer about that a lot as we look at what was the difference between our kids’ lives … and our lives growing up … I didn’t know any rich people.”
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“I’m also a little bit shy,” Affleck added. “I also don’t like a lot of attention. This is why people see me and they’re like, ‘This dude always mad!’ — because somebody has their camera and sticks it in my face and I’m … with my kids and you’re taking my picture.”
The actor drew all-new media consideration together with his 2022 elopement with Lopez in Las Vegas. Affleck, whose mere facial expressions have gone viral, admitted Thursday that his “resting bitch face” will get him into bother — even when he’s doing one thing innocuous.
“People are projecting something onto me that I don’t feel about myself at all,” he advised Hart. “And one thing I do think it gives off, whether it’s a certain look or role … for a long time they’d be like, ‘This guy’s a frat guy.’ I’ve never been in a fraternity one day in my life.”
