Smith knew nothing about 'Bennifer'
Writer-director Kevin Smith says he did not know his friend Ben Affleck was dating Jennifer Lopez when Affleck recommended she should play his wife in Smith’s gangster comedy Jersey Girl.
“Bennifer,” as Smith calls them, had just finished working together in Gigli, and, Smith told the New York Times: “All of a sudden it turned out they were a couple and I thought, ‘No wonder he wanted to work with her again’. Suddenly his suggestion didn’t seem so altruistic.”
However, Smith is delighted with the outcome. “We got Ben and Jennifer at a perfect time,” he said. “They were falling in love in real life and falling in love on film.”
Filming their love scenes, he said, was easy. “I don’t know that they had to act that much. There were times when we’d say ‘cut’ and that didn’t seem to matter to them.”
