Jennifer Lopez starred in Gigli in 2003, a film that still sits as her lowest rated on Rotten Tomatoes over two decades later. While Lopez acknowledged that the film didn’t receive the reception she wanted, she didn’t think it was as bad as people believed. She thought the biggest problem for the film was that not enough people saw it.
This was something she attributed to her own popularity. Jennifer Lopez said her level of fame was not good for ‘Gigli’ Gigli was met with near-universal ridicule upon its release. Lopez thought this was unfortunate, as she believed parts of the film were “genius.
” She hoped people would come to view the film the same way once they saw it on television. “I really think it will have a resurgence on cable!” she told W Magazine in 2003. “Now people may look at me and say, ‘She’s totally off her f***ing rocker,’ but hey, that’s my theory.
” Lopez thought the film fared terribly in theaters because people were fed up with hearing about her. At the time, her relationship with Ben Affleck was constantly on the cover of tabloids. “But if you’re in the paper every damn day, people are like, ‘Who cares?’ And then nobody goes to see your movie!” she said.
“It’s like, ‘Why should we? We see her every day,’ and then you’re like, ‘Wait a minute! That’s the only reason I’m doing this!’” Ben Affleck said his relationship with Jennifer Lopez hurt the success of ‘Gigli’ Affleck agreed with Lopez’s as.