<p id=”par-1_61″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/jennifer-lopez/”>Jennifer Lopez</a> was encouraged by <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-working-heartbreak-album-real-story-ben-affleck-divorce-source-says.html/”>ex-husband Ben Affleck</a> to film<em> This Is Me…Now: A Love Story</em>, a film chronicling a unique chapter in the actor’s life and career. However, Affleck didn’t agree that certain parts of the movie could be filmed the way she wanted. The problem was being told ‘no’ is a major pet peeve for the <em>Shotgun Wedding </em>star.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-jennifer-lopez-s-brief-disagreement-with-ben-affleck-in-this-is-me-now-a-love-story-explained”>Jennifer Lopez’s brief disagreement with Ben Affleck in ‘This Is Me…Now: A Love Story’ explained</h2>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ben-Affleck-Jennifer-Lopez-.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez looking into each other’s eyes at a movie event. Lopez is wearing a low-cut white dress and Affleck is in a tuxedo.” class=”wp-image-3724667″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez at the 78th Venice International Film Festival in 2021 | Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-2_57″>Lopez’s ex-husband Affleck was both a catalyst and inspiration when it came to making her film <em>This Is Me…Now</em>. The feature opened up Lopez’s life to fans in a way they hadn’t previously seen before. One of the reasons she felt compelled to create the project was because she was entering a new phase in her life.</p>
<p id=”par-3_59″>“It ended this chapter and it started a new chapter for me,” she once said at a press conference according to <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/jennifer-lopez-talks-film-ben-affleck-helped-art/story?id=107076211#:~:text=When%20it%20came%20to%20making,He%20said%2C%20’You%20do.”>ABC News</a>. “It ended kind of this 20-year journey about a lot of questions that I had about love and being myself, a hopeless romantic, and what it means to really enter into a healthier, more self-accepting phase.”</p>
<p id=”par-4_51″>The Amazon Prime feature was a metaphor for Lopez’s own love life with Affleck at the time, and was written, produced, and financed by Lopez herself. It was directed by Dave Meyer, who revealed that Lopez’s first break up with Affleck played a significant role in the singer’s story as well.</p>
<p id=”par-5_31″>“Specifically the pain that she went through when she <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/why-did-jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-break-up-the-first-time.html/”>broke up with Ben</a> the first time,” Meyers said. “There was a lot of honesty that was shared in that first meeting.”</p>
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<p id=”par-6_20″>Affleck not only helped inspire the film, but would also encourage Lopez to complete it when she started doubting herself.</p>
<p id=”par-7_53″>“Ben kind of said this to me. I was like, ‘I don’t write, I don’t do this,’” Lopez said. “He said, ‘You do. You write, you direct, you produce, you do all the things. Start stepping into that. Start owning that a little bit. Start owning a little bit of who you are.’”</p>
<p id=”par-8_85″>But Lopez and Affleck didn’t always see eye to eye on the finished product. When Affleck helped develop the film, his instincts as a writer kicked in. This caused a slight disagreement between Affleck, Lopez and Meyer. According to an interview with <a href=”https://www.mamamia.com.au/jennifer-lopez-interview/”>Mamamia</a>, the filmmaker remembered when <em>The Town </em>actor was ‘talking to both of us, saying it couldn’t be done in the way that we wanted to do it. And Jen just kind of looked at me like, ‘Okay, we’re going to do it.’”</p>
<p id=”par-9_20″>Lopez doing the exact opposite of what Affleck advised was a stern reminder of the type of person she is.</p>
<p id=”par-10_20″>“Don’t tell me I can’t do something. That’s all,” Lopez said about the incident. “It is a very simple thing.”</p>
<p id=”par-11_15″>It seemed Affleck was able to inspire Lopez’s love story in more ways than one.</p>
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<p id=”par-12_82″>Couples getting into the occasional spat every now and then is common in relationships. But the world thought they once saw Affleck and Lopez go at it on camera when <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/body-language-expert-broke-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-awkwardness-grammys.html/”>the pair attended the 2023 Grammys</a>. At the time, the show’s host Trevor Noah was doing a comedy bit. Unbeknownst to Lopez and Affleck, however, they were also in the camera’s view during Noah’s routine. The camera caught the pair seemingly having a tense moment between each other, which quickly became viral.</p>
<p id=”par-13_24″>But in an interview with <a href=”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/ben-affleck-air-production-company-grammys-memes-justice-league-1235353301/”>The Hollywood Reporter</a>, Affleck revealed his interaction with Lopez wasn’t as serious as it was made out to be.</p>
<p id=”par-14_108″>“I had a good time at the Grammys,” he said. “My wife was going, and I thought, ‘Well, there’ll be good music. It might be fun.’ At movie award shows, it’s speeches and, like, sound-mixing webinars. But I thought this would be fun. I saw [Grammy host Trevor Noah approach] and I was like, ‘Oh, God.’ They were framing us in this shot, but I didn’t know they were rolling. I leaned into her and I was like, ‘As soon they start rolling, I’m going to slide away from you and leave you sitting next to Trevor.’ She goes, ‘You better f***ing not leave.’ That’s a husband-and-wife thing.”</p>
<p id=”par-15_21″>Affleck further pointed out that no one batted an eye when he had similar facial expressions at other ceremonies and events.</p>
<p id=”par-16_63″>“I mean, some of it is, I’m like, ‘All right, who is this act?’ Like, I don’t keep up. My wife does, obviously. And yeah, it is your wife’s work event. And I’ve gone to events and been pissed off. I’ve gone and been bored. I’ve gone to award shows and been drunk, a bunch. Nobody ever once said I’m drunk,” he said.</p>