Jane Fonda slams Jennifer Lopez’s ‘absurd’ musical film for excessive Ben Affleck PDA

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n the 2005 romantic comedy film “Monster-in-Law.” Now, the 86-year-old actress is once again not holding her tongue when it comes to the “I’m Real” singer’s real-life choices.

Fonda appears in Lopez’s forthcoming Amazon Prime Video movie, “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story,” which accompanies Lopez’s ninth studio album, “This Is Me … Now,” as part of the movie’s “zodiac counsel.” But despite her appearance, the “Book Club” star had her hesitations because of J.Lo’s husband Ben Affleck.“I want you to know that I don’t entirely know why, but I feel invested in you and Ben, and I really want this to work,” Fonda says in the upcoming documentary “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” which follows the making of the album and film, according to Variety.”“However, this is absurd,” she added. “Like, it feels too much like you’re trying to prove something instead of just living it.

You know, every other photograph is the two of you kissing and the two of you hugging.”Unfazed by her remarks, Lopez, 54, just laughed and said, “That’s just us living our life.”Fonda also voiced her concern after seeing paparazzi pics of Affleck, 51, looking sad alongside Lopez at the 2023 Grammy Awards.“He looks unhappy and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, what’s happening?’” Fonda tells Lopez in the documentary.“Nothing,” Lopez retorted. “He was like, ‘I’ve become the symbol of the beleaguered man.’”Before she agreed to appear in “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story,” Fonda spoke with Lopez’s manager Benny Medina, according to Variety.“I believe that everyone in the entire world is pulling for this relationship and this love,” Fonda told Medina. “And the idea of how you present that is so sacrosanct, so important.