Jennifer Lopez helped spark their romance Ben Affleck after nearly two decades apart, and now she’s revealing she might be ready to revisit another part of their relationship. In her recent 73 Questions interview with Vogue, published Nov. 30, Lopez showed off the Los Angeles mansion she shares with Affleck and hinted she wouldn’t mind working on another together to work movies.
“Which of your films would you most like to make a sequel to?” the cinematographer asks, and Lopez replies, “Gigli.” The 2003 film, starring Lopez and Affleck, was a critical and commercial failure and has been described as one of the worst films of all time. However, it led to Lopez and Affleck’s relationship and eventually their engagement, which they called off in 2004. In 2021, they rekindled their love affair and finally tied the knot in July 2022. Despite many other cinematic experiences over the years, when interviewers ask who made her laugh the most between scenes, Lopez says it has to be “my husband Ben.”
Gigli isn’t the only film Lopez and Affleck have made together. They followed up with ‘Jersey Girl’ in 2004 – but thanks to the fact that it’s set at the place where the famous couple first met, ‘Gigli’ could be the couple’s most famous film collaboration. Affleck himself addressed Gigli’s legacy in a January interview Weekly entertainment. “The truth about that film and what it taught me was how much everything about a film dictates the way people see it,” he said. “But for a film that’s such a famous bombshell and a disaster, very few people actually saw the film. By the way, it doesn’t work. It’s kind of like a horse’s head in a cow’s body. And the studio at the time, because I had started having this relationship with Jennifer Lopez, which was selling a lot of magazines and seemed to generate a lot of enthusiasm, predictably they chimed in, “You want a romantic comedy. You want the two of them together . More.” from that!'”
While a Gigli remake or sequel still seems relatively unlikely, Lopez incorporated Affleck into her art in other ways. In an interview with Zane Lowe on Nov. 28, she shared that her forthcoming album, This Is Me…Now, was inspired by their romance. “I think what the message of the album is, if you’re wondering if, like me sometimes, you’ve lost hope, almost given up, don’t,” she said. “Because true love exists and some things last forever and that’s real.”
Watch the full interview above.