Ben Affleck knows that not all of his movies are hits.
In fact, the Air director recently addressed the box office failure of his and Jennifer Lopez’s 2003 film Gigli, and why he still feels a bit guilty about it today.
“I’ve been in movies like Gigli, that’s a famous example,” he explained in a Deadline interview alongside pal Matt Damon published Nov. 8. “I got a big cash payday for that. Well, it doesn’t feel right in retrospect because they lost money.”
Indeed, Ben admitted that his and Matt’s company Artists Equity—which seeks to “reimagine” the relationship between studios, actors and distributors—ensures that sort of inequity doesn’t occur in its films.
“It wasn’t the biggest money-losing movie in history even though it was the most famous bomb in history, perhaps,” Ben reflected of Gigli. “Nonetheless, that doesn’t sit right with me.”
And while other films have lost more in earnings, Ben—who shares kids Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, with ex Jennifer Garner—is right, few box office bombs are as famous as his and J.Lo’s 2003 film.
