Ben Affleck makes surprising new comment about ex Jennifer Lopez after she filed for divorce

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upcoming movie “Unstoppable.”Affleck and Matt Damon, who produced “Unstoppable” via their production company, Artists Equity, were joined by Cillian Murphy for an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Sunday about their film “Small Things Like These.” The reporter asked Affleck about “Unstoppable,” which stars Lopez, 55, as the mother of a one-legged athlete.“Unstoppableis a very different movie than this, but in a way it’s similarly rooted in the passion of really talented artists,” said Affleck. “Billy Goldenberg and Jennifer and Don Cheadle and Jharrel … All of them were really passionate about this film.”“We really believe in the power of storytelling when the people involved in it are deeply emotionally connected to the story,” he continued.Affleck added that “Jennifer is spectacular” in “Unstoppable.”“It’s another one that we’re really, really proud of,” he noted. “We believed in the right people, and ‘Unstoppable’ is another example of that.”Affleck and Lopez were married for two years before Lopez filed for divorce on August 20, the anniversary of the former couple’s second wedding ceremony.Lopez listed their date of separation as April 26.

On that day, the singer was New York hard at work filming another movie she’s co-producing with Affleck, “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” The exes had wrapped filming on “Unstoppable” three months prior.Affleck, while he was still married to Lopez, had spoken how much he loved working with his then-wife on the film.“What fun, what a joy to do something with her, see her be great, go to work with your wife, go to work with your best friend,” he told CBS Sunday Mornings in March 2023.Adapted from a 1993 Broadway musical (which was an adaptation of a novel), “Unstoppable” tells the.