The actress' ex Ben Affleck—from whom she filed for divorcement successful August—praised her show successful the upcoming film Unstoppable, which helium co-produced.
"Unstoppable is simply a precise antithetic movie than this, but successful a way, it’s likewise rooted successful the passionateness of truly talented artists," Ben said successful an interrogation with Entertainment Tonight published Nov. 3 portion promoting Small Things Like These, different movie helium produced. "Billy Goldenberg and Jennifer and Don Cheadle and Jharrel [Jerome], and Bobby Cannavale, each were truly passionate astir this film."
The Air actor—speaking alongside his producing partner Matt Damon and actor Cillian Murphy—explained that helium thinks the passionateness for a film's communicative from the actors tin beryllium captious to its success.
"It speaks to a definite benignant of happening I conjecture we're drawn to," helium said. "We truly judge successful the powerfulness of storytelling erstwhile the radical progressive successful it are profoundly connected to the story."
Ben went connected to specifically telephone retired his ex's show successful the movie.
"Jennifer's spectacular," helium added, earlier besides praising her costars. "We believed successful the close people, and Unstoppable is different illustration of that."
The actor's compliments bespeak the erstwhile couple's committedness to beforehand their associated project's occurrence contempt what's going connected successful their idiosyncratic lives.
In fact, astatine the film's premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival successful September, manager William Goldenbergshared that determination was nary awkwardness among the formed arsenic a effect of Ben and Jennifer's split.
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"It's ever been astir the movie, and that's their idiosyncratic business," helium said. "We conscionable kept it astir the movie. We conscionable kept her oculus connected the prize."
And portion Ben has yet to remark straight connected his divorce, his praise for Jennifer's show came conscionable a fewer weeks aft she broke her silence connected their breakup.
"You person to beryllium complete, if you privation thing that’s much complete," she said successful speech with Nikki Glaser for an Interview mag illustration published Oct. 9. "You person to beryllium bully connected your own. I thought I learned that, but I didn’t. And then, this summer, I had to beryllium like, ‘I request to spell disconnected and beryllium connected my own. I privation to beryllium to myself that I tin bash that.'"
She added, "Being successful a narration doesn’t specify me. I can't beryllium looking for happiness successful different people. I person to person happiness wrong myself."
Keep speechmaking for much connected Ben and Jen's relationship.