Ben Affleck is an incredibly successful actor in current times having starred in multi-billion dollar movies like The Justice League, the fan-favorite Gone Girl and upcoming potential blockbuster movies like The Flash. He has an aura and scene presence that is unique to him and his acting.
Ben Affleck and his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner were together for 10 years before their split. The Stars met on set and fell in love with each other on set. They both supported each other’s work heavily. so why did Ben Affleck refuse to work with her when they were together?
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Fell in Love on the set of 2003’s Daredevil
Ben Affleck once went on to Playboy to talk about his relationship with Jennifer Garner, his then-wife. The star talked about how they met on the set of the movie Pearl Harbor which is a movie that severely underperformed. But the two fell in love with each other on the set of 2003’s Daredevil. He joked about how not only bring the pair together but would foreshadow their marriage. The two stars started dating in 2004 and ended up getting married a year later in 2005.
“By the way, she won most of the fights in the movie,” Affleck said of Daredevil. “Which was a pretty good predictor of what would happen down the road — my wife, holding swords and beating the living s*** out of me.”
Affleck believed that his co-star and partner helped him out of a bad time in his career. Being with her helped him set the foundations of confidence in himself to be able to reach out to bigger career opportunities, like directing Gone Baby Gone.
Ben Affleck Refused to work with Jennifer Garner When the Two Were Together
Even though Affleck and Garner met on the set of a movie and fell in love on the set of a movie, he did not like the idea of working on projects when they were together. One of the reasons for this was the fact that the two had worked on two movies together and both of those did not perform very well.
“My wife and I made Pearl Harbor and Daredevil. With our track record, I don’t know if anyone’s looking for a threequel,” he quipped.“I think audiences have a hard time suspending disbelief,” he told Time “They already know a whole bunch of things about the relationship you have with the other person and if you try and thrust you and another person into a fictional relationship, I think it is distracting.”
He went on to talk about how he thought that the fact that he and Garner were in a relationship was distracting from the actual story of the characters on screen. He was however not averse to the idea of directing a movie with Garner as the female lead. This though will probably not be happening anytime soon as the couple split in 2018.
Source: Cheat Sheet
