Ben Affleck reflects on Gigli: “I did get to meet Jennifer, the relationship with whom has been really meaningful to me in my life.”
” is bound to come up more than once. The Martin Brest-directed 2003 romantic-comedy was an infamous critical and commercial bomb, grossing just $7.2 million worldwide. The film’s disastrous reception was intensified due to the casting of tabloid fixtures Affleck and. Nearly two decades later, Affleck views “Gigli” in part as a gift, even though it caused self-doubt and soured public opinion on him.
“The truth about that movie and what it taught me was how much everything around a movie sort of dictates the way people see it,” Affleck. “But for being a movie that’s such a famous bomb and a disaster, very few people actually saw the movie. It doesn’t work, by the way. It’s a sort of horse’s head in a cow’s body.
Affleck noted that he has many other films that actually bombed harder than “Gigli” at the box office, but that the film remains one of his most well-known disasters because of all the tabloid fodder that surrounded him and Lopez at the time. “It’s just that it became a story in and of itself. The funny name, the Jennifer Lopez romance and overexposure of that, it was kind of a perfect storm,” Affleck said. “And I remember talking to [the director] the Friday it came out and I was like it’s just spectacular, it’s a tsunami, it couldn’t be worse. This is as bad as it gets.”
“It engendered a lot of negative feelings in people about me,” Affleck continued. “There’s that aspect of people that I got to see that was sad and hard, it was depressing and really made me question things and feel disappointed and have a lot of self-doubt. But if the reaction to ‘Gigli’ hadn’t happened, I probably wouldn’t have ultimately decided, ‘I don’t really have any other avenue but to direct movies,’ which has turned out to be the real love of my professional life.
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