Ben was out and about L.A., picking up his son Samuel from school, with a bunch of paps in tow. As the photogs train their cameras on his left hand, Ben cleverly hides the appendage in his sweater.
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00:00 This is fabulous.
00:03 It shows, listen, Ben Affleck, through even
00:05 before the current marital issues,
00:08 whatever they are with Jennifer Lopez,
00:10 has been a lot said about his RBF, right?
00:13 His resting Ben face, we'll call it.
00:17 And for the first time in a long time, we are seeing him smile.
00:22 I'm not saying-- not at all suggesting--
00:24 Seeing him having fun.
00:26 I'm not at all suggesting that it's because he's no longer--
00:28 he's not living under the same roof as Jennifer Lopez.
00:31 But as he was walking his son Samuel back to their car
00:36 yesterday, he decided to cover up-- you see the sweater?
00:41 He is very clearly, very intentionally,
00:44 not showing his left hand.
00:46 Because--
00:46 Because it got him in trouble over the last week.
00:50 I don't think it got him in trouble.
00:51 It became headlines.
00:52 He was wearing a wedding ring one day,
00:54 wasn't wearing a wedding ring the next.
00:57 And obviously, he's having problems with Jennifer Lopez,
00:59 because now they're living in separate houses.
01:01 Ben rented a house.
01:02 And here's the thing.
01:05 The fact that he can have this kind of--
01:07 and I don't want to say fun, because it does
01:09 seem like a weird word.
01:10 But he's having fun.
01:11 And he's kind of--
01:12 And he's poking fun at--
01:13 And he's poking fun at the paparazzi.
01:14 Exactly.
01:16 And so is his son.
01:17 By the way, poking fun at us.
01:19 Saying, I'm not going to give you that shot.
01:20 We've seen him multiple times, guys.
01:22 He's one of the most papped person celebrity in Hollywood.
01:25 And to be honest, his body language in this video clip
01:28 says it all.
01:28 He is relaxed.
01:29 He is laughing.
01:30 He is having fun.
01:31 He doesn't look as pensive or as stiff as he does with JLo.
01:34 There is this one iconic video that we did a few months ago,
01:37 I do believe.
01:37 And it was right after they had gotten married.
01:39 They were going somewhere.
01:40 And he slammed the door in her face.
01:42 And then they had to do damage control on that video.
01:44 He just looks very stiff and pensive all the time
01:46 that the paparazzi is over around him and JLo.
01:49 So it's telling at a point, because they
01:51 are going through some marital problems right now.
01:53 They are living in separate homes.
01:54 And they are going through a lot.
01:55 The rings are off.
01:56 The rings are on one day.
01:57 So it's just telling when he's with his kids.
01:59 He does feel happy, relaxed, and back to the old Ben
02:01 that we're used to seeing.
02:02 Well, as light as Ben is, Jennifer, on the other hand--
02:08 Not so much.
02:09 No, she was down in Mexico where they
02:12 were doing a premiere for her new Netflix movie, Atlas.
02:16 And she's sitting there with a couple of her co-stars.
02:19 They're taking questions from the media.
02:22 And somebody crossed the line.
02:24 Watch.
02:24 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
02:25 - Your divorce, great athlete, is real.
02:28 - OK, we're not doing that.
02:30 [SPEAKING SPANISH]
02:31 - Thank you so much.
02:32 I really appreciate it.
02:33 Thank you.
02:34 Thank you.
02:34 [SPEAKING SPANISH]
02:35 - You know better than that.
02:36 - Come on.
02:37 Don't come in here with that energy, please.
02:39 Thank you so much.
02:40 - Let me just decode that for a second.
02:42 You know better than that means there were publicists--
02:45 - You were told.
02:46 - --who said, do not ask that question.
02:48 Do not ask that question.
02:50 Do not ask that question.
02:52 - And I'm sure you're 100% right.
02:54 And that's, frankly, the complete wrong approach.
02:56 This breakup drama is the best thing
02:58 to happen to J-Lo and this movie.
03:00 All press is good press when you're
03:01 promoting a movie like this.
03:03 I would be leaning into it the same way
03:04 that Ben is kind of leaning into it.
03:06 Again, if you play along with it,
03:08 it does well in the court of public opinion.
03:11 It makes people sympathize a little bit more and think,
03:14 OK, she's not taking it so seriously.
03:16 She could have a sense of humor.
03:17 If you're just shutting it down, it's the wrong way to go.
03:20 - By the way, did you notice her co-star, Simu Liu,
03:22 who was like--
03:23 it was almost like a bodyguard.
03:25 Like-- - Oh, he jumped in first.
03:26 - --they were already-- - Oh, they knew.
03:28 - --in case that happened. - Of course.
03:29 - We're not doing that. - Yeah.
03:30 They knew-- - Shutting it down.
03:31 - --knew it was going to happen.
03:33 But boy, two completely different ways of handling it.
03:37 - Yeah. - Totally different.
03:38 But I think what you said at the beginning,
03:40 which is Ben looks really relaxed and even happy,
03:43 is really interesting.
03:45 - Honestly, both are handling it much different ways.
03:49 But no answer is an answer.
03:51 So I do think the public is getting the truth out there
03:54 about them actually splitting.
03:57 But the reporter, I don't think, was really in the wrong here.
04:00 Honestly, I'm not really interested in seeing this movie.
04:02 I'm interested in seeing what the relationship is
04:04 with their relationship.
04:05 So he's doing the Lord's work out there for the public.
04:09 - Oh my god, that's God's work now.
04:13 Really, that's God's work.
04:14 - Come on, God.
04:15 Please do better.
04:16 [LAUGHTER]
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