Jennifer Lopez Sweetly Supports BF Ben Affleck’s New Film: He’s ‘Amazing in the Movie’
08.01.2022 - 19:23
/ usmagazine.com
Supportive girlfriend! As Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s rekindled romance has continued to heat up, she couldn’t resist praising his acting chops.
“This is adorable from The Tender Bar,” the “On My Way” songstress, 52, gushed while opening a PR box from the Prime Video movie on Friday, January 7. “Oh. A little note to me on what the movie’s based on, all this stuff from the movie in here. Cute.”
As she opened up her gift, she noted there was a miniature bowling set included, which tied back to a memorable moment in the film, which was first released in December 2021.
“There’s a great scene in a bowling alley with Ben and the little boy [Daniel Ranieri],” the New York native gushed about the Argo director, 49, via her Instagram Story. “Ben plays his uncle [and] they’re both amazing in the movie. If you haven’t seen it, you should. This is awesome. Thank you, Tender Bar.”
The film, directed by George Clooney, is adapted by J. R. Moehringer’s memoir of the same name and costars Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe and Christopher Lloyd. Ranieri, for his part, plays a 9-year-old version of the author after he moved into his grandfather’s (Lloyd) home in Long Island, New York, in 1972. While searching for a father figure, his uncle Charlie (Affleck) steps in to fill that void. The Good Will Hunting actor’s character is described as a charismatic and self-educated bartender who introduces nephew J.R. to an assortment of interesting bar characters.
“There were a lot of similarities for me personally with this movie. My dad worked at a couple of bars. … Parents work, so I spent a lot of time being close to my dad at the bars,” Affleck told Vanity Fair in December 2021 about the recently released drama. “It didn’t seem weird or