The brand new documentary from Jennifer Lopez,The Best Love Story By no means Instructed, follows the actress and musician as she takes on independently producing a brand new album and cinematic unique that explores the final twenty years of her life. In telling her story, director Jason Bergh additionally gives an intimate take a look at Lopez’s life and her relationship along with her husband, Ben Affleck. In an unique interview with MovieWeb, Bergh says working alongside Affleck for the movie was a beautiful expertise.

Earlier than reuniting and getting married in 2022, Affleck and Lopez (famously) began a relationship in 2002; the next yr, the couple have been engaged. In response to The Best Love Story By no means Instructed, “the huge quantity of scrutiny” round their personal lives led to their 2004 cut up. Provided that data, it could be cheap to assume that Affleck would have some hesitation about The Best Love Story By no means Instructed. Throughout the dialog with MovieWeb, Bergh revealed, nevertheless, that Affleck was completely supportive of the movie and that working alongside Affleck, an award-winning filmmaker, wasn’t too “daunting.”

“No, it wasn’t daunting. I imply, I have been a fan of his for a few years. I keep in mind seeing his present Challenge Greenlight and simply saying to myself, ‘How do I get a chance like that? How may I ever discover that? With documentary tradition in New York, you recognize, you simply did not ever really feel like that was attainable. So, to have him and his studio be the producers of this movie was actually an honor. And he is simply a tremendous assist for filmmakers and for individuals. What he dropped at the desk was simply permitting me to essentially simply go and do my factor. It was that he trusted me.”

He added that he was “honored” to be a part of the venture, and revealed that Affleck simply let him “go and make the film.”

“And he actually simply sort of let me go and make the film, which was like, it’s important to pinch your self in these moments. To have him be the pinnacle of the studio, you all the time dream about moments like that, however this enterprise is hard, and you do not know if one thing like that may ever occur. And for me, I am simply honored to be part of this complete state of affairs and to have him clearly assist it. It has been a beautiful expertise. Daunting is the mistaken phrase, although. As a result of he is an unbelievable filmmaker. So, you possibly can solely study from somebody like him, and it is the precise reverse of daunting. I am excited! I am like, ‘What can I study from him? What questions can I ask him? What recommendation can I get from him? And you recognize, he is so open about all that stuff. He is only a great filmmaker.”

Bergh has beforehand collaborated with Lopez on a number of tasks, together with Netflix’s Jennifer Lopez: Halftime (the place he served because the cinematographer) and directed Lopez’s opening sequence for Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2021. Their previous collaborations, he believes, have been essential in gaining Affleck’s belief.

“I feel he most likely pulled a little bit bit from all of the belief that Jen had in me from all these years and, understood that I am a superb particular person and that I am right here for them.”

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Jennifer Lopez Says Working with Husband Ben Affleck on Documentary Was ‘Scary’

Whereas Bergh could not have discovered working with Affleck daunting, Lopez admits she discovered it “scary” to convey her husband into the combination. Throughout a Q&A with producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas (by way of PEOPLE) at a particular screening of The Best Love Story By no means Instructed, Lopez spoke about working with Affleck for the characteristic. Noting that she discovered it “very scary” to share her deepest ideas on digicam, Lopez added:

“The opposite scary half was that I used to be bringing into it my husband, who was sort of the reluctant participant, silent participant and all.”

The Best Love Story By no means Instructed marks the third on-screen collaboration for Affleck and Lopez, who co-starred in Gigli and Jersey Woman 20 years in the past. Early opinions have praised Bergh’s candid and uncooked take a look at Lopez, the making of This Is Me… Now: A Love Story, and her relationship with Affleck.

The intimate documentary options interviews with collaborators and offers a glance into Lopez’s private life. Try the trailer beneath.