When Mindy Kaling took the stage on the Democratic Nationwide Conference, she couldn’t resist delivering a particular message to Ben Affleck.
Kaling, 45, addressed the delegation of her dwelling state of Massachusetts on the DNC in Chicago on Wednesday, August 21, a day after Affleck’s estranged spouse, Jennifer Lopez, filed for divorce after two years of marriage.
“I like you, Massachusetts!” the actress and producer stated, drawing wild applause. “Everyone seems to be at all times hating on us. However they only don’t get it. Go Sox! … Ben Affleck, grasp in there! Dunkin Donuts, you’re the most effective espresso on the planet.”
Kaling and Affleck, 52, have a protracted historical past — form of. Earlier in her profession, Kaling portrayed the Oscar winner in successful off-Broadway play referred to as Matt and Ben, which she co-wrote together with her school pal, Brenda Withers. The 2002 manufacturing was a fictional retelling of how Affleck and Matt Damon wrote the script for Good Will Searching. (The collaborators went on to win the Academy Award for Greatest Unique Screenplay in 1998.)
The phrase “Bennifer” may embody flashbacks to frosted lip gloss and butterfly clips, however every thing comes again in type finally. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez bought again collectively practically 20 years after their romance first took the world by storm. The pair first linked in 2002 on the set of the ill-fated Gigli. The film […]
The shoutout from Kaling comes simply sooner or later after Lopez, 55, submitted divorce paperwork herself, as a substitute of by a lawyer, at a courtroom in Los Angeles on Tuesday, August 20. She listed the date of her separation from Affleck as April 26, which was three months earlier than they marked their two-year wedding ceremony anniversary.
Information of the couple’s divorce comes after months of experiences that their marriage was on the rocks. The duo went weeks with out being noticed collectively earlier than Us confirmed in Could that Affleck moved out of their shared dwelling in Beverly Hills. In July, neither Lopez nor Affleck publicly acknowledged their second wedding ceremony anniversary.
Ben Affleck in Los Angeles on Tuesday, August 20. The Day by day Stardust / BACKGRID
A supply completely informed Us that month that the couple had been “dwelling separate lives” as they navigated their ups and downs. “Jennifer instructed they only take time to determine it out,” the insider stated, noting that “Jen and Ben are having points of their marriage. They began having points just a few months in the past as Jen had began ramping up work commitments and prepping for her tour.”
In line with the supply, Lopez was “very centered on work,” including, “They’re on two utterly completely different pages more often than not.”
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are formally divorcing however their skilled lives will stay entwined. Lopez, 55, is starring within the upcoming movie Unstoppable, an Amazon MGM Studios venture produced by Affleck’s manufacturing firm, Artists Fairness. Filming on Unstoppable wrapped in January however the film, directed by William Goldenberg who beforehand labored as an editor […]
Earlier than their cut up, Affleck and Lopez’s romance was entrance and middle in This Is Me … Now: A Love Story. The high-concept tackle Lopez’s life, which accompanied her most up-to-date album, explored their rekindled relationship. She later shared that the venture by no means would have made it off the bottom with out Affleck’s encouragement.
“I used to be like, ‘I don’t write, I don’t do that,’” Lopez recalled at a press convention in February, which was the final month they made a public look collectively as a twosome. “He was like, ‘You do, you write, you direct, you produce, you choreograph, you do all of the issues. Begin entering into that, begin proudly owning just a little little bit of who you might be.’”
Lopez beforehand gushed over Affleck’s dedication to the music-fueled movie. “We collaborate very effectively collectively,” she informed Leisure Tonight in December 2023. “So we had been in a position to form of sit down and actually dig into it, in a manner that I don’t assume another author might’ve accomplished with me.”
Whereas neither Lopez nor Affleck have spoken out about their cut up, Affleck was seen heading into an workplace constructing in L.A., on the day of her divorce submitting, the place he was noticed sans wedding ceremony ring.
