It’s a pre-Valentine’s Day date night forJennifer LopezandBen Affleck!
Other stars at the red carpet premiere on Tuesday includeDerek Hough,America Ferrera, Fat Joe and Xochitl Gomez.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Los Angeles on Feb. 13, 2024.Monica Schipper/Getty
Monica Schipper/Getty
This Is Me…Now: A Love Storyis a musical and visual reimagining of the life events that inspired Lopez’s upcoming albumThis Is Me…Now, which serves as a sequel to her 2002 albumThis Is Me…Then.
The project —which includes cameos from stars likeTrevor NoahandJane Fonda— has been a long time in the making for Lopez, 54, who said at a press conference last week that herreal-life love storywith Affleck, 51, helped push her to get it done.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Los Angeles on Feb. 13, 2024.Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty
Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty
“I was like, ‘I don’t write, I don’t do this.’ He was like, ‘You do, you write, you direct, you produce, you choreograph, you do all the things. Start stepping into that, start owning a little bit of who you are,’” she recalled Affleck telling her.
The pair weremarried in July 2022, more than a year after rekindling their romance. They first dated for two years in the early 2000s before calling it quits just days before their 2004 wedding.
Jennifer Lopez in This Is Me…Now: A Love Story.Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios
Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios
Their renewed romance inspired much of the direction of the film, director Dave Meyers said at the press conference, and noted one scene in particular that found her hard at work as a construction worker at a heart factory.
“Metaphorically, it is true,” Meyers said. “That stemmed from her telling me the pain that she’s been in, specifically the pain that she went through when she broke up with Ben the first time. There was a lot of honesty that was shared in that first meeting, and so the heart factory became sort of a Titanic-level meltdown, which was a metaphor for what she was giving me as far as her truth.”
Lopez and Affleck also recently starred together in aSuper Bowl commercialthat featured Affleck forming a boy band called the DunKings with palMatt Damonand New England Patriots legendTom Brady. An extended version of the ad opens with the Oscar winner asking Lopez for help developing some “beats.”
source: people.com
