Tracy Morgan‘s mockumentary The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins discovered a solution to poke enjoyable at Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s marriage.
Throughout the Monday, February 23, episode of the NBC sitcom, Reggie’s (Tracy Morgan) ex-wife, Monica (Erika Alexander), shared her ideas on the documentary about her ex, telling documentarian Arthur (Daniel Radcliffe), “We belief you! This might work for all of us.”
Monica did, nonetheless, have one concern concerning the challenge.
“I simply don’t need us to return off like Jennifer Lopez in her documentary,” she advised Arthur, who replied, “Proper, no Ben Affleck. Good notice!”
The phrase “Bennifer” would possibly embrace flashbacks to frosted lip gloss and butterfly clips, however every little thing comes again in fashion finally. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez bought again collectively practically 20 years after their romance first took the world by storm. The pair first related in 2002 on the set of the ill-fated Gigli. The film (…)
Monica was referencing Lopez’s 2024 music visible movie This Is Me… Now: A Love Storya extremely stylized tackle Lopez’s life. It accompanied her most up-to-date album and dove deep into her renewed relationship with Affleck, 53, in between self-help parodies and sci-fi interludes.
Lopez, 56, and Affleck initially reconnected in 2021 after breaking off their 2004 engagement. The pair went on to tie the knot in Las Vegas in July 2022 and had a second ceremony the next month. Earlier than their 2024 break up, Lopez praised Affleck’s assist with This Is Me … Now: A Love Storywhich served as a sequel to her 2002 album This Is Me … Then that was devoted to Affleck
“I used to be like, ‘I don’t write, I don’t do that,’” she recalled at a February 2024 press convention. “He was like, ‘You do, you write, you direct, you produce, you choreograph, you do all of the issues. Begin getting into that, begin proudly owning a little bit little bit of who you’re.’”
The singer was excited to share a glimpse of her and Affleck’s love story, telling Selection on the time, “I’ve been on this journey, and I’ve been making an attempt to determine it out. Now I really feel like as a result of Ben and I’ve rediscovered one another — and now that we’re married — I’ve one thing to supply. That is the defining piece of labor that’s going to shut that chapter so I can transfer on to the following a part of my life.”
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s relationship impressed her 2002 hit “Pricey Ben,” and their romance supplied much more inspiration when it was rekindled twenty years later. The couple have been first linked within the early 2000s, with Lopez confirming their engagement to Diane Sawyer in November 2002. The twosome finally referred to as off their wedding ceremony in early (…)
Lopez additionally beforehand gushed over Affleck’s dedication to the challenge.
“We collaborate very properly collectively, and no person is aware of my story greater than he does,” she advised Leisure Tonight in December 2023. “So we have been capable of sort of sit down and actually dig into it, in a method that I don’t suppose some other author might’ve carried out with me.”
On the time, a supply completely advised Us Weekly that Lopez “wouldn’t have wished for anyone else” to collaborate along with her on the Prime Video launch, including, “No person is aware of her higher than Ben.” Lopez felt “grateful” to have Affleck on her group, with the supply saying, “He helped her really feel secure to share elements of her no person has ever identified.”
Us later confirmed in August 2024 that Lopez filed for divorce on the two-year anniversary of her and Affleck’s Georgia wedding ceremony ceremony.
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins airs on NBC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.