“Budget got cut and one thing led to another and it became just one character,” Dave Meyers explains of the Ben Affleck shift.
Dave Meyers, who directed the new Jennifer Lopez movie “This Is Me… Now: A Love Story” on Amazon’s Prime Video, explained that he and the singer made an intentional decision not to show Ben Affleck’s face in the film — though originally, the idea was to have him appear as several more characters.
“We did hem and haw on the opening scene, but we really did not want to end it with, the whole journey of love was just to get back to Ben,” Meyers told People.
“That was purposeful, because everything Jen was telling me was about her own personal maturity and what she’s gone through and learned about herself,” the director added.
