“She should have been nominated. She’s the real thing. I keep in touch periodically with her and have a lot of respect for her. How awesome is it that she had her biggest hit movie at 50? That’s f–king baller,” the Argo star said at the time.
Both Affleck and Lopez went on to have children after their breakup in the early 2000s. The Town actor shares three children with Garner, 50 — Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13 and Samuel, 10 — and the “On the Floor” singer shares two children with Anthony — 14-year-old twins Emme and Maximilian. The former couples remain coparents but their marriages have since ended. Lopez and Anthony finalized their divorce in 2014 and Affleck and Garner announced their separation in 2015.
In 2021, the Gigli costars reconnected. “They looked very happy together,” an insider told Us after the pair was spotted in Big Sky, Montana that May. “It was just the two of them on vacation together. Big Sky is a special place to Ben.”
In August 2021, the Out of Sight actress went to a performance of the musical Hamilton in Los Angeles with her teenage twins and Affleck’s daughters, published usamagazine. The following month, the couple made their first red carpet appearance since getting get back together at the Venice premiere of Affleck’s movie The Last Duel.
Lopez announced her and Affleck’s second engagement via her On the JLo newsletter in April. “Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed,” she wrote. “I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening all over again, I was quite literally speechless and he said, ‘is that a yes?’ I said ‘YES of course that’s a YES.’”
