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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez split in 2024.Christopher Polk \/ Getty Images<\/p>\nJennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck may be divorced, but they\u2019re not letting that interfere with their business relationship.<\/p>\n
J.Lo stars in the new movie \u201cKiss of the Spider Woman.\u201d Her divorce from the Oscar winner was finalized while she was making the film, which boasts her and Affleck as executive producers. She says he is a big reason the project saw the light of day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for Ben, the movie wouldn\u2019t have (gotten) made, and I will always give him that credit,\u201d she said Oct. 6 while appearing on TODAY.<\/p>\n
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez split in 2024.Christopher Polk \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Lopez also said the movie was cathartic for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings happen. You have to keep going,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut, it\u2019s funny. The movie is about escapism. It\u2019s about how movies and art save us in the hardest times of our lives. And doing this project was such a dream come true for me that it really got me through, to kind of survive a moment that was difficult in my personal life, as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, after that, I took some time off and now we\u2019re back. And I\u2019m really excited for everybody to see this film. It\u2019s a beautiful film about love.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jennifer Lopez, seen here in “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” says Ben Affleck is responsible for the movie getting made.
\n \/ Courtesy Roadside Attractions<\/p>\n
Craig Melvin then pointed out the movie \u201cmay have helped save\u201d Lopez, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt did. It did,\u201d she concurred.<\/p>\n
Lopez and Affleck\u2019s love story<\/a> was one of the most heavily scrutinized public relationships in Hollywood history. The couple got engaged in 2002, but they eventually called off their wedding and split, due in part to the intense media coverage they received.<\/p>\n Lopez would go on to marry and divorce Marc Anthony, with whom she has two kids<\/a>, and become engaged to Alex Rodriguez, before they broke up. <\/p>\n Affleck married Jennifer Garner, with whom he shares three children<\/a>, before they divorced. <\/p>\n Affleck and Lopez would reconnect and got engaged<\/a> in 2022 and married<\/a> that same year before she filed for divorce<\/a> in 2024. <\/p>\n \u201cKiss of the Spider Woman,\u201d which is based on the 1976 novel by Manuel Puig and has already been on Broadway and been made into a 1985 movie with William Hurt and Raul Julia, opens Oct. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck may be divorced, but they\u2019re not letting that interfere with their business relationship.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-183228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jennifer](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jennider-lopez-kiss-of-the-spider-woman-mc-251006-02-27d01f.jpg\")
Jennifer Lopez headlines “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”Courtesy Roadside Attractions<\/p>\n