Why Kevin Smith hasn’t reached out to Ben Affleck amid cut up rumors

Like the remainder of the world, Kevin Smith, the filmmaker and actor who usually collaborates with Ben Affleck, has heard that his longtime good friend’s marriage to Jennifer Lopez is on the rocks. Smith’s spouse, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, even urged he attain out to the Argo star.

However Smith, who attended the pair’s wedding ceremony, selected to not.

“Clearly, he is been going by way of a factor, or a minimum of that is what it says within the press and whatnot,” Smith instructed PEOPLE Saturday at San Diego Comedian-Con. “I, being his least reliable good friend who’s very loose-lipped… I used to be like, ‘The final individual he wants to listen to from proper now could be the man who chats quite a bit.’ So when he is in a great place, he’ll let me know.”

Smith has a connection to Lopez, too, as a result of she appeared within the 2004 film Jersey Woman, which he directed. Affleck was the star of that one. (Schwalbach Smith additionally had a task.)

Bennifer — as they have been referred to as for many years now, due to Smith — turned engaged in November 2002, however referred to as off their deliberate wedding ceremony in September 2023, earlier than ending their relationship completely in January 2004 — two months earlier than the discharge of their film with Smith.

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They famously coupled up once more in early 2021 and have been engaged once more by April 2022 and wed that August. However, in latest weeks, they’ve once more sparked rumors of a breakup, a lot to the frustration of followers.

Smith instructed the journal that he will likely be contacting Affleck within the fall, as he begins work on his subsequent film within the Jay and Silent Bob franchise.