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Clues from Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's steamy first encounter that show romance was doomed from day one
The inside story of Gigli - the most notorious bomb of its day and the reason, perhaps, that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, like the movie they met on, were doomed from the very start.
It’s a solid rule of thumb, when releasing a $75M crime rom-com aimed at broad international audiences, to pick a title that won’t prove entirely unpronounceable for a wide majority of punters. Lopez wouldn’t commit early on when she was courted to play Ricki, a lesbian gangster, and was nearly replaced by Halle Berry, who can be forever grateful that scheduling conflicts on X2 gave her the opt-out. While both stars had succeeded in taking stock to reposition themselves - Affleck with a canny pivot to directing and an ultimately unhappy stint as Batman; Lopez by concentrating on her music, before Hustlers and the Super Bowl - the same cannot be said for Martin Brest, who has yet to be let out of the Hollywood sin bin even now.
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