“It almost scared me into quitting”: Jennifer Lopez’s Ex-Husband Was Scared To Shoot Husband-Wife Abusive Scenes With Her
Jennifer Lopez, a multi-talented diva, is currently married to Oscar-winning actor, Ben Affleck. This isn’t her first marriage because she was previously linked to a number of high-profile relationships before meeting the Deep Water actor.
For the unversed, the 53-year-old actress has also been married four times, but sadly, none of her marriages to her former partners were successful. Lopez’s previous partner before Affleck was the American singer, Marc Anthony. Lopez and Anthony had been married for seven years when the latter filed for divorce in 2012.
However, it was said that they were very close.
The former couple even appeared together in a film. Despite their relationship, the pair played a violent couple in the movie. Things between them became so heated during filming that Anthony even made the decision to ‘quit’.
Marc Anthony Was Scared To Shoot Abusive Scenes With Ex-Wife
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony had worked together previously, though it may have been the first time they had done so on a big screen.
In 2006, the ex-couple co-starred in the biographical movie, El Cantante, which Lopez thought was wildly underappreciated by the majority of people in the industry. However, they were cautioned against working in a film, where they played a violent couple due to the extreme storyline.
Their on-screen relationship in El Cantante was very different from their actual romance. The two accurately portrayed an abusive marriage while staying true to the roles they were playing. The more physical scenes could be difficult for Anthony and Lopez, which was made clear to them in advance.
The Man on Fire star once admitted to Latina (via Female First) that,
“All my actor friends warned us, saying, ‘Those abusive husband-and wife scenes are going to be difficult.’”
And he went on to admit,
“It almost scared me into quitting.”
Anthony, however, argued that the scenes at the time portrayed their own marriage in a more favorable light.
“With those scenes, we’d end up exhausted. But driving home, we’d just look at each other and say, ‘We are so normal,’”
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Jennifer Lopez Initiated A Physical Fight In El Cantante
Jennifer Lopez was determined to make her fight scenes with Marc Anthony more intense. The actor-singer decided it would be best to improvise during a tense and suspenseful scene with her ex-husband. She has once admitted in an interview with OK Magazine,
“I decided that I was going to literally go after Marc in one scene. I did it the first take, and I didn’t really go after him, and then in the second take, I decided I was just going to push him and I wanted to get him out of the house. Just get out! Because he wanted to leave. I pushed him.”
Because Anthony was totally unprepared for the scene, he deviated from his usual behavior. But Lopez remained true to form and stepped up the tension in their argument, and she had done everything within her power to succeed in the role. She gave the movie her all, but the movie bombed financially.
Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez both have happy marriages with their respective partners in their lives. After splitting from Anthony, Lopez had relationships with some well-known men. She and Ben Affleck exchanged vows in public for the fourth time in 2022.
In contrast, Marc Anthony married Nadia Ferreira earlier this year, in January 2023. Following his split from Lopez, Anthony tied the knot with model Shannon De Lima in 2014. Sadly, the relationship only lasted two years before the couple decided to get a divorce.
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Source: Latina (via Female First)
