Ben Affleck confesses that he is “a bit of bit shy” and prefers to be behind the digicam.

In the course of the season 4 premiere of Kevin Hart’s Hart to Coronary heart, Affleck, 51, opened up about life within the highlight, noting how folks’s reactions to seeing him versus his spouse Jennifer Lopez in public differ. 

Hart, 44, first requested the Air actor if he prefers working behind or in entrance of the digicam. Affleck stated he sees himself as a “director,” however he rapidly famous that he is “a bit of bit shy.”

“I additionally don’t love lots of consideration,” he continued. “This why folks see me [and] they’re like, ‘Nicely, this dude all the time mad…’ As a result of anyone has their digicam and sticking to my face.”

“I do not thoughts you taking my image a few membership, a premiere, no matter. My spouse, I do not give a f—. Go forward. Knock your self out. I do not discover you,” he stated earlier than including, “My kids, that is a distinct factor.”

Affleck shares Violet, 18, and Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 52. He’s additionally stepdad to Lopez’s 16-year-old twins, Max and Emme, whom she shares with ex Marc Anthony.

Because the dialog continued, Affleck remarked on the alternative ways followers categorical their affection for him and Lopez. 

“We went someplace with [Jennifer]—I can’t bear in mind as a result of she’s so well-known, and she or he creates this—folks love her. And she or he actually represents one thing essential to folks,” Affleck defined.

“[To me,] persons are like, ‘Hey, I like your film,’ after which they’re like ‘AHHHH! J-LO!’” he shouted. “It’s superb, you realize what I imply?”

The Good Will Looking star additionally shared an anecdote about their household of seven venturing round Instances Sq. throughout a trip when Lopez was immediately bombarded by followers.

“We get out of the automobile, we have been going to a play, and I used to be like, ‘F— it, babe, we’re going to be late, we gotta stroll a block and a half.’ [Lopez] was like, ‘Alright,’ she didn’t say s—,” he shared.

“We get out along with her, all the youngsters, by Instances Sq., and the s— was like f—in’ bananas,’“ he recalled. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God.’ There was a woman, she was smoking weed, in a full purple skintight go well with—she’s a heavy girl—and she or he begins working backwards filming, going ‘J-LO!!’ Like a herald. Then will get everybody else, they’re all vacationers, no matter, simply transferring.” 

“Then I am transferring. We acquired, like, our 5 youngsters, me and Jen, and it is, it is like, it seems like a whole bunch of individuals and now screaming,” he continued. 

“By the way in which, in that second, you bought to be oblivious to behave prefer it’s all okay,” Hart added. 

“Completely. Yeah, that’s why I put my bitch face on,” Affleck joked.

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It is not identified when this episode of Coronary heart to Hart taped, however Affleck and Lopez’s marriage has been strained lately, with Lopez vacationing in Italy this week with out him and their shared Beverly Hills mansion listed on the market. The 2 final collectively attended Samuel’s commencement earlier in June.

Hart to Coronary heart airs Thursdays on Peacock.