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Bennifer Nuptials Nixed...Again
Those of you still hoping to see Bennifer tie the knot can officially give up now.
Filmmaker Kevin Smith has axed a wedding scene between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez from his upcoming film Jersey Girl less than a month after the onetime power couple put the kibosh on their own planned nuptials bycalling it quits.
The Clerks director tells Us Weekly he went ahead and made the cut because he feared all the gossip over the breakup and the bad buzz surrounding the pair's previous celluloid collaboration, Gigli, might have a negative affect on his film.
"I didn't know if [it was right] to leave it in," Smith says in the magazine's March 8 issue. "People might forget they're watching a picture, like, 'Wait, didn't these two NOT get married?'"
A dramatic comedy, Jersey Girl features the 32-year-old Affleck as New York publicist Ollie Trinke, who's expecting his first child after marrying the perfect wife, Gertrude (Lopez). However, his life takes an unexpected turn when tragedy strikes, leaves him unemployed and a single father forced to raise his daughter alone.
The scene in question featured a wedding ceremony between Affleck and Lopez' characters. But ever since Bennifer went bust, Smith and the film's distributor, Miramax, have decided the less Lopez the better.
J.Lo just barely appears in the trailers currently making the rounds in theaters, and Miramax's marketers have officially downgraded Lopez's role to a cameo--she is MIA from all posters and her name has been excised from publicity material--which isn't far from the truth considering she's only in the movie a few minutes.
According to Smith, Jersey Girl's story emphasis was never really on Ollie and Gertrude's relationship so much as it focused on Affleck's character picking up the pieces of a life forever altered. He spend most of his screen time with Liv Tyler.
"Now that the trailer's out, people are getting [the idea] that it's not a Bennifer movie," Smith told the New York Post last month. "Jennifer has about 12 minutes of footage in the first half hour in which they meet, get married and she dies."
"She's not the star of the movie [and] the marketing materials reflect her role in the film," a Miramax rep told the Post on Wednesday.
Camp Lopez concurs, with a rep saying, "Jersey Girl is about the relationship between a father and his daughter."
Affleck's publicist, Ken Sunshine, was not available for comment Thursday, but he told the Post that the actor's "thrilled with the movie."
For his part, Smith tells the Post, "I think I got a better performance out of the dude [Affleck] than if he was acting opposite someone else, because of the way he felt about Jen." The director also adds his two cents about the split. "If I had to point a finger about why they broke up, I would blame the media, though maybe there's some law of physics that says two insanely good looking people cannot be together."
Although she won't be out hyping Jersey Girl, Lopez does have two high-profile flicks in the pipeline: Shall We Dance?, a romantic comedy opposite Richard Gere opening in August, and the family drama An Unfinished Life with Robert Redford slated for December.
Aside from Jersey Girl, Affleck has filmed the comedy Surviving Christmas, which is due out in time for the holidays, and is due to star in the basketball drama Glory Road. But he has said in recent interviews that his relationship with Lopez has hurt his career and indicated he may take most or all of 2004 off.
Jersey Girl opens March 26.
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