Posted by Runshouse21 at nytgate1.nytimes.com on December 08, 2003 at 13:52:07:
In Reply to: Affleck: J-Lo bad for career and the routine sex posted by Vishal on December 08, 2003 at 13:49:46:
: And Affleck says sex with Jennifer Lopez lasts about "ten minutes" and has become routine.
: The star, 31, says the world would be shocked if they knew the details of his sex life with Jennifer Lopez, says the Sun.
: He joked: "You'd be bored by my sex life now! It's like ten minutes. It's completely routine. It's another root. I've done nothing fancy there."
: Affleck said: "My relationship with Jennifer has absolutely been bad for my career. The over-exposure this year has been really damaging.
: "The combination of me and Jennifer as a unit became more important than the parts we did in movies. It's not good when everybody knows everything about you - the mystique disappears.
: "The whole world knew what we were doing on a daily basis. They wrote that we had bought jeans for half a million dollars.
: "It made people think bad about us. But it's not important. People who regard that as important have lost their soul."
: Damon said: "Ben told me he doesn't want to see his picture on the cover of another magazine. He said all this recent publicity is making him sick of himself.
: "Ben understands why some people are sick of seeing so much being written and photographed about him and that's really frustrating for him."
: But Damon refutes accusations that Affleck used his romance with J.Lo to raise his profile.
: "Ben was already getting plenty of work as an actor," he said. "He didn't need this kind of celebrity and he certainly never courted it."