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Ben Affleck didn’t sign off on Jennifer Garner’s divorce joke in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
By Eric Todisco,
4 days ago
Ben Affleck wasn’t given a heads up about that line in “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
In the Marvel film, Jennifer Garner returns as Elektra and makes a joke about Affleck , who she was married to for 10 years.
Shawn Levy, the director of the film, revealed on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast on Monday that he didn’t seek out Affleck’s approval for the jab.
“No, we vetted it with Jen,” said Levy, 56.
However, Levy did reveal that he had a conversation with Affleck, 51, about a different part of the film.
“I later spoke with Ben because the end credits have this tribute reel to the legacy of Fox Marvel movies and so that gave us the occasion to speak to everyone because we needed and wanted everyone’s permission,” he said.
“We never did a joke about or with anyone that we didn’t run by them first,” he said. “Whether it was scripted, like the Daredevil line, or unscripted.”
Levy told Variety that Affleck’s Daredevil was in early contention to be brought back for “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
“Early on, when we were looking at a 70-name menu of Marvel characters, Daredevil was on one of those lists, but never since those earliest of conversations, and never to the point of outreach or offers or anything like that,” he said.
“We made contact with everyone featured in the Fox tribute reel halfway through our end credits — and that’s dozens of actors who have been a part of that legacy. That was fun to build a love letter to those years, those characters, and all the actors who played them,” Levy added.
In 2020, Affleck called his divorce from Garner “the biggest regret of my life.”
“Shame is really toxic,” he told the New York Times . “There is no positive by-product of shame. It’s just stewing in a toxic, hideous feeling of low self-worth and self-loathing.”
Garner has recently been supporting Affleck as his divorce from his new wife, Jennifer Lopez, seems imminent.
Affleck married Lopez, 55, in 2022. They were originally engaged in the early 2000s prior to his relationship with Garner, but they broke up, only to reconcile two decades later.
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