There are few bombs more infamous thanGigli.
“So in those ways, it’s a gift.
“It was a really easy choice,” Affleck says of signing on toGigliat the time.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in ‘Gigli’.Phillip Caruso/Columbia
“I lovedMidnight Run.
I lovedBeverly Hills Cop.
I lovedScent of a Woman.
Marty’s obviously enormously gifted.
There was no question in my mind that this was a guy I wanted to work with…
But really what it taught me was how much everything around a movie dictates the way people see it.
For being such a famous bomb and a disaster, very few people actually saw the movie.”
“Those who did, it doesn’t work, by the way,” he readily admits.
“It’s a sort of horse’s head in a cow’s body….
They want to see that.
More of it!'
And it was just, it was likethatSNLsketch.
Still, Affleck says, “I didn’t go into it blindly.
I knew thatSean PennandMadonnawere a tabloid story when I was young.
I knew that could happen.
Famous for being an a–hole or a failure and not able to work?'
“I can’t think of a worse outcome,” he goes on.
I’ve gotten reservations at restaurants.
But the whole point was to be able to do this job.
Otherwise, what is it worth?
It changes the relationships you have with other people.
That are strong enough to make you to go, ‘F— it.
Well, this doesn’t work.
I got to do something different.’
I’ve definitely learned more from failure than I have from success.”
Additional reporting by Leah Greenblatt.
