Ben Affleck; Jennifer Garner; Matt Damon.Photo:Getty (3)
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Jennifer Garnermight soon team up withBen Affleckon his next film project.
Affleck, 51, is directing the upcoming crime thrillerAnimalsfor Netflix with palMatt Damonstarring. Garner, 51, is in early talks to potentially star in the film as well, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.
Dani Bernfeld has teamed up with Affleck and Damon, 53, to co-produce the film under their Artists Equity, while the plot will focus on a politician and his wife who must overcome odds to save their kidnapped son.
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.Angela Weiss/FilmMagic
The former coupletied the knot in June 2005, and they share three kids:Violet, 18,Seraphina, 15, andSamuel, 11, whom they’ve been co-parenting sincefinalizing their divorce in October 2018.
This past November, Garner and Affleck were spottedsmiling and chatting as they caught upin Santa Monica, California.
Affleck went on to marry actress and singerJennifer Lopezin July 2022, while Garner isdating the chairmanand CEO of Cali Group,John Miller, with whom she first connected in 2018.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on March 18, 2023, in Austin, Texas.Michael Loccisano/Getty
Michael Loccisano/Getty
Meanwhile, Boston natives Affleck and Damon have been best friends for years and have collaborated onscreen numerous times, including for theirOscar-winning debutGood Will Hunting(1997) and, more recently, withThe Last Duel(2021) and their Nike dramaAir.
“Ben has always had an incredible charisma. People are just getting introduced to it through film,” Damon toldThe Los Angeles Timesof his friend in 1999. “It’s hard to think of your best friend as a movie star, but the fact that he is [stems from] the extent to which parts of the real him come through. He is somebody that everybody wants to be around.”
After the success ofGood Will Hunting, which won each of them their firstAcademy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, the duo considered going their separate ways professionally — but it didn’t quite shake out that way.
“For a while, we thought maybe we should chill and just do other stuff, and not be Matt and Ben, Matt and Ben,” Affleck recalled toBoston Magazinein a 2013 interview.
“We have our company together, we’re developing together. And Matt lives down the street from me like he used to. His kids are living with him, the way we used to live with our folks. The only difference is that we have pools.”
source: people.com
