Jennifer Lopez ‘is a pure hunter’ thriving in spotlight, stark contrast from ex-husband Ben Affleck: experts

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck person been handling the spotlight otherwise since finalizing their divorcement earlier this year.

Lopez wowed astatine the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her latest film, "Kiss of the Spider Woman."

The 55-year-old donned a body-hugging sheer dress, overlaid with a sparkling spider web, fitting with the film’s title.

"Kiss of the Spider Woman" is adapted from a philharmonic based connected a caller of the aforesaid name, astir an imprisoned Argentine revolutionary whose caller cellmate regales him with tales of his favourite movie, and its star, played by Lopez, to distract them from their bleak situation.

Jennifer Lopez dazzled astatine the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her latest movie, "Kiss of the Spider Woman." (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

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"I’ve been waiting for this infinitesimal my full life," she said of the role, according to Variety. 

Artists Equity, Affleck's accumulation company with Matt Damon, is 1 of the companies associated with the film, but neither helium nor Damon are listed arsenic a shaper successful the credits. 

Lopez’s Sundance quality is the latest reddish carpet she’s walked since her and Affleck’s divorcement was finalized connected January 6.

Affleck, connected the different hand, has remained mostly retired of the spotlight, until this week, erstwhile helium made a astonishment quality astatine the Next connected Netflix Special Presentation successful Los Angeles connected Wednesday, supporting a antithetic movie from Artists Equity, "RIP," co-starring himself and Damon.

Ben Affleck made a astonishment quality astatine the Next connected Netflix Special Presentation successful Los Angeles connected Wednesday aft being retired of the spotlight since his divorcement from Lopez. (Netflix)

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"It’s the seventh movie that Matt Damon and my company, Artists Equity, has made, and it truly is successful a batch of ways the astir important for us, due to the fact that we’ve recovered immoderate truly breathtaking partners who are truly funny successful not conscionable what has been but what could beryllium astatine Netflix," helium told the audience, according to People magazine. "This is precisely the benignant of movie that we privation to champion."

"Ben and Matt person been a quintessential Hollywood duo, moving some on- and off-screen unneurotic from the opening of their careers. Showing enactment for 1 different and their shared projects has been a staple we expect to spot careless of who would beryllium successful attendance," Kara Schmiemann, Senior Director, Red Banyan, told Fox News Digital.  

"'RIP' is simply a movie wherever Ben has a starring role, successful summation to producing, and truthful the anticipation and request to look astatine this lawsuit would intelligibly outweigh 1 wherever helium assumed solely a producing role."

Prior to this week, Affleck's past publically photographed quality was astatine a Los Angeles Lakers crippled past November.

Lopez has been attending property events for "Unstoppable," the movie she stars successful produced by Affleck, portion helium has kept a little profile.  (Monica Schipper/Adam Pantozzi/NBAE)

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"There has been a large woody of property implicit the past fewer months astir JLo attending the reddish carpet unsocial successful gorgeous gowns and garnering a batch of attraction aft filing for divorcement connected August 20, 2024," Kathy Fielder, CEO of Thrive by Kathy Fielder, told Fox News Digital. "JLo filed, and it appears she is acceptable to determination connected into this adjacent signifier of her life. Ben rather perchance whitethorn request a small much clip and a small much quiescent to repair and fig retired his adjacent signifier and what that entails."

The erstwhile mates besides collaborated connected different caller film, the wrestling drama, "Unstoppable," with Lopez again starring, and Affleck listed arsenic a producer. 

Lopez attended each the promotional events for the movie solo, with nary Affleck successful sight. 

"Jennifer Lopez dominated the spotlight for ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ and ‘Unstoppable’ — dazzling with bold manner arsenic Ben Affleck smartly vanished to debar absorption connected their idiosyncratic lives," Eric Schiffer, Chief Executive Officer of Reputation Management Consultants, said. "This strategical prime supercharges JLo's prima powerfulness and keeps the communicative deadeye connected the films." 

Affleck being absent from promotion of his caller collaborations with his ex is simply a "strategic choice" to debar having their idiosyncratic lives brought up during interviews: expert. (Michael Buckner/WWD)

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Doug Eldridge of Achilles PR agreed that some stars, and Affleck successful particular, don’t privation to distract from their work.

"He wants his films—regardless of whether he's acted, directed, oregon produced them—to basal and talk for themselves," Eldridge said. "When you mates that with his dislike for the agleam lights and predictably bawdy questions surrounding different break-up, it makes consciousness wherefore helium would instrumentality a walk connected the promenade."

He added, "That said, Affleck is deliberate successful his nationalist appearances—in immoderate cases to enactment his friends and long-time collaborators, similar Matt Damon, but successful different cases to debar contention and conjecture, owed to an unintended reddish carpet cross-over with his ex, Jennifer Lopez. (A bully publicist would've choreographed that truthful determination was nary stepping connected toes—literally oregon figuratively.) The erstwhile drew affirmative headlines and sum from the likes of People Magazine; the second would've drawn tabloid scrutiny and rumination, each of which would person distracted from the integrity of the movie helium produced."

Schmiemann said, "The determination for Ben to beryllium little of the front-man promoter is apt two-fold — erstwhile you're a shaper and not the headliner, and besides consciousness astir comfy successful a behind-the-scenes capableness — there's apt not excessively overmuch to infer from these decisions, arsenic it makes strategical sense."

Eldridge besides noted that arsenic a woman, Lopez whitethorn beryllium nether much unit to look successful nationalist than her ex. "Additionally, successful a precise archaic way, an histrion indispensable stay visible, successful bid to stay viable, successful Hollywood," helium explained. "When was the past clip you saw [Chris] Hemsworth, [Tom] Hardy oregon Harrison Ford, walking a reddish carpet for a task they weren't tied to? By contrast, starlets are somewhat tethered to the reddish carpet to punctual some fans and movie studios that they are red-hot and acceptable for that adjacent role. Hollywood has undergone a extremist translation successful the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, but immoderate elements inactive remain—good, atrocious oregon otherwise."

Lopez whitethorn beryllium nether much unit to look publically arsenic a pistillate successful Hollywood, according to adept Doug Eldridge. (Hector Vivas)

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Schmiemann explained that it is yet a equilibrium of idiosyncratic and professional. 

"No 1 enjoys moving into an ex erstwhile you're caller disconnected of a breakup oregon divorce, careless of personage status. Most of america effort to debar these situations astatine each costs due to the fact that the anguish, play and anxiousness is conscionable not worthy it. But for those who enactment with their exes, sometimes it indispensable beryllium done, and I'd person expected them some to beryllium nonrecreational if ever they request to stock a signifier oregon reddish carpet unneurotic again. However, would the speech instantly displacement to investigation astir who said, did, snubbed the other, arsenic opposed to said movie — absolutely. 

"The buzz volition surely make wide attraction the archetypal clip they inhabit the aforesaid abstraction publically — but it's not needfully a atrocious happening for immoderate movie they'd beryllium promoting. In fact, it could precise good beryllium strategical to up the ante and gully much attraction and views."

Lopez and Affleck antecedently collaborated connected projects during some rounds of their relationship, archetypal successful 2002 with the films "Gigli" and "Jersey Girl," and past twelvemonth with the high-concept euphony movie "This is Me . . . Now: A Love Story" and the accompanying documentary, "The Greatest Love Story Never Told."

In "The Greatest Love Story Never Told," the region betwixt their respective relationships with the spotlight became apparent.

"The Greatest Love Story Never Told" highlighted the erstwhile couple's quality of sentiment astir nationalist attention. (Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

In the aboriginal minutes of the documentary, Lopez shared that her caller euphony was inspired by a postulation of handwritten emotion letters from Affleck, which she showed to songwriters and musicians moving with her.

Affleck admitted determination was an irony successful making a grounds astir "the top emotion communicative ne'er told" by telling it truthful publicly.

"Jen was truly inspired by this experience, which is however artists bash their work," helium said successful the film. "They get inspired by their idiosyncratic life, it moves you. I cognize arsenic a writer and manager I surely bash the aforesaid things. But things that are backstage I had ever felt are ineffable and special, successful portion due to the fact that they’re private. So, this was thing of an accommodation for me."

According to People, she told the assemblage during a Q&A screening that her past hubby was a "reluctant participant." 

Affleck expressed discomfort astir having his emotion letters shared with different radical successful the documentary astir Lopez and her caller album. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

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"In 1 sense, this is arguably an hold of their basal behavior—through each narration and assorted stages of her vocation reinvention(s), Lopez ever sought the spotlight, portion Affleck held a marked disdain for the reddish carpets, galas, property junkets, pomp and condition of Hollywood. Seeing her be and him stay absent, is not surprising," Eldridge said.

"Affleck is some a husbandman and a hunter—he is progressive connected some sides of the camera, with galore projects successful the works astatine each times. By contrast, Lopez is simply a axenic hunter; she leaves the cave each greeting with a spear and an bare stomach; if she doesn't marque a kill, she doesn't eat."

He continued, "Affleck is some a husbandman and a hunter—he is progressive connected some sides of the camera, with galore projects successful the works astatine each times. By contrast, Lopez is simply a axenic hunter; she leaves the cave each greeting with a spear and an bare stomach; if she doesn't marque a kill, she doesn't eat. Affleck tin take to hunt portion his crops mature to harvest; Lopez indispensable stay disposable and, connected the move, successful bid for her vocation to past and thrive. Neither of these are indictments connected their personality, oregon professionalism; simply a delineation of their respective approaches to the industry."

That bears retired further, with Lopez speaking much openly astir the divorce, and Affleck remaining fundamentally silent.

In an October interrogation with comedian Nikki Glaser for Interview magazine, Lopez said "My full f---ing satellite exploded," pursuing the debut of the documentary and the eventual divorcement filing.  

Lopez has made a fewer nationalist comments astir her divided from Affleck. (Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic)

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Lopez said she had nary regrets astir getting backmost with Affleck, but noted that it "doesn’t mean it didn’t astir instrumentality maine retired for good. It astir did. But now, connected the different broadside of it, I deliberation to myself, ‘F---, that is precisely what I needed. Thank you, god. I’m atrocious it took maine truthful long. I’m atrocious that you had to bash this to maine truthful galore times. I should person learned it 2 oregon 3 times ago. I get it. You had to deed maine truly hard over the caput with a f---ing sledgehammer. You dropped the location connected me. Don’t person to bash it again.’"

During the promotion of "Unstoppable," she besides said she related to her character's struggles with a toxic relationship.

In the film, the 55-year-old played Judy Robles, parent of wrestler Anthony Robles, who was calved with 1 limb and defied expectations to go a NCAA champion wrestler contempt facing rejection astir each corner.

While Anthony, portrayed by Jharrel Jerome, faces his ain challenges passim the film, the matriarch of the movie besides raises 4 children portion dealing with an abusive and unfaithful husband, played by Bobby Cannavale.

During an interrogation for "Unstoppable," Lopez mentioned that she could subordinate to her quality dealing with a toxic relationship.  (Jerod Harris/Variety via Getty Images)

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"There was a batch astir her that I understood," Lopez told Entertainment Weekly past December. "There were antithetic sides to him that the kids didn't see, that lone Judy saw. "

She continued, "With those types of people, there's a portion of them that fools you into reasoning that they attraction astir you and that they genuinely emotion you—and it's truly astir their harm that they're putting onto you."

Ultimately, Affleck and Lopez person been accordant with their respective brands successful the aftermath of their divorce, a strategy that has been working, according to Schmiemann.

"The champion program is ever the 1 that you tin execute comfortably. They would not beryllium doing themselves, their movies, reputations oregon idiosyncratic teams immoderate favors to unit attendance astatine definite events oregon beryllium together, front-and-center, for immoderate promotional gigs if tensions are excessively high, and their visual presence is little than ideal. Ben and JLo person some spent years cultivating their nationalist personas and privation to showcase themselves and their enactment with professionalism and positivity—and keeping their heads debased and doing their ain things close present is working."