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Oh yeah, because nothing says love better than monetization.
On Tuesday, VarietyStephen Rodrick posted a profile on Jennifer Lopez covering the “Let’s Get Loud” singer’s latest project, a three-part multimedia bonanza that includes an album, a musical film and a documentary, all of which Lopez self-financed for $20 million. The theme of the three-part project is “Lopez’s life as a serial romantic,” according to Rodrick, and will primarily focus on her husband, Ben Affleck.
Rodrick was able to see some scenes from the documentary, titled “The Greatest Love Story Ever Told,” which is the name Affleck gave to a series of private love letters he wrote to Lopez. According to Rodrick, there is a scene in the documentary where Lopez invites a group of musicians to her house to help her write her new album (which is part of the three-part project) called “This Is Me …Now.” a sequel to their 2002 album, “This Is Me… Then.”
To help inspire her fellow musicians, Rodrick writes that Lopez shared all of Affleck’s love letters with them, and Affleck catches her in the act.
“In the documentary, Affleck enters the room and seems bewildered when he sees his letters being discussed,” Rodrick writes. “He tells the camera: ‘I really found the beauty, the poetry and the irony in the fact that it is the greatest love story ever told. If you’re making a record about it, it feels like telling it.’”
When this particular part of Rodrick’s profile hit X, formerly Twitter, many users found it quite unpleasant.
Sharing personal love letters with a group of people without the writer’s permission seems very strange.
— Leo O’Bannon 🌻 (@elpadredebolsas) February 13, 2024
I literally can’t imagine sharing love letters with strangers, this is so invasive.
-Dhruv (@dvXhitman) February 14, 2024
Matt Damon wouldn’t do this to her
– Sparkycutecute (@littlegirlnerd) February 13, 2024
What makes this move even more baffling is that Affleck has stated in the past that part of the reason he and Lopez broke off their engagement in 2004 was due in part to their lack of privacy.
“I would say (the media attention) was about 50 percent (of what destroyed our relationship),” the “Air” star said. Howard Stern in 2021, via Bazaar. “The idea that people hate you and hate you together and that being together is poison and ugly and toxic and something that none of us want to be a part of… And, ‘Who the fuck would want to invite them to dinner?’ And, ‘What the fuck are you doing together?’”
Rodrick also notes elsewhere in the Variety profile that Affleck hints in the documentary that he’s not thrilled about his wife going public with her private life, but that he “reluctantly” supports her.
Rodrick writes:
“In the documentary, Affleck says, ‘The things that are private that I’ve always felt are sacred and special because, in part, they’re private.’ Then he stops short: ‘So this was kind of an adjustment for me.’”