‘Jersey Girl’ Director Kevin Smith ‘Bawled Throughout’ Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s Wedding

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So emotional! Kevin Smith couldn’t hold back the tears when he attended Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s Georgia wedding ceremony.“I’m a crier,” the Clerks director, 52, told ET Canada on Monday, August 22. “I cry all the time.

I cry watching episodes of The Flash. I cry watching Degrassi, for heaven’s sake. But I bawled throughout because it was goddamn beautiful.

So beautiful.”Smith added that he couldn’t share too many details out of respect for his friends’ privacy, but he described the event as “overwhelmingly emotional” and “one of the most beautiful events I’ve ever been present for in my life.”The filmmaker directed the Hustlers star, 53, and the Oscar winner, 50, in 2004’s Jersey Girl.

That movie hit theaters after Gigli, the production where the duo connected for the first time, but Smith has taken credit for inventing the portmanteau “Bennifer” for their romance.Last year, the Comic Book Men alum said that coming up with the nickname was “a dubious honor at best,” telling The Daily Beast in October 2021: “Most people out there, including Ben and Jen themselves, are like, ‘Thanks, a–hole.’”The “Get Right” songstress and the Argo director wed for the second time this past weekend after previously tying the knot in Las Vegas in July.