Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez reunited this week at the premiere of Lopez's upcoming film, "Kiss of the Spider Woman," less than a year after finalizing their divorce in January.
The former couple supported each other at the New York screening on Monday, posing for photos together on the red carpet.
Affleck served as executive producer on the film alongside longtime collaborator Matt Damon, as part of their Artists Equity production company.
Affleck took to the carpet in a classic navy blue suit and white shirt, while Lopez wore a sheer green Harris Reed gown with floral detailing for the occasion.
The gown, from Reed's The Aviary collection, featuring a print by Fromental, included oversized sculptural detailing at the waist that resembled a spider.
Roadside Attractions, one of the film distribution companies for "Kiss of the Spider Woman," reposted a clip from People on its Instagram story Monday evening, in which Affleck praises Lopez and her role in the film ahead of the screening.
"The goal was to empower great artists and tell moving stories and create opportunities for these kinds of great stories to be told and work with the best directors in the world and the best actors and the best material. And in this movie we did all of that," Affleck said, standing next to Lopez.
"Jennifer you're incredible," he added.
"Kiss of the Spider Woman" stars Lopez, Diego Luna and Tonatiuh. The film was adapted from the stage musical of the same name by Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb, as well as the 1976 novel by Manuel Puig.
A synopsis for the film reads, "Valentín (Diego Luna), a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez)."
The film hits theaters Oct. 10.
Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck in August 2024, after two years of marriage, according to legal documents obtained by ABC News. The divorce was reportedly finalized earlier this year.
In an interview with "CBS News Sunday Morning" in September, Lopez shared why she saw an unexpected upside to the breakup, describing that period as "the best thing that ever happened to me."
"Because it changed me," Lopez said at the time. "It helped me grow in a way that I needed to grow ... [I] became more self-aware, I am a different person now than I was last year, a year and a half ago."
Affleck also spoke about the divorce earlier this year in an interview with GQ.
"All of this is pretty adult, and for all the sensational stuff that gets written, if somebody sat down and talked to me about it, and I said, 'Well, this is really the experience,' their eyes would glaze over with boredom," he said at the time.
He added later, "There are a lot of people who I think have handled celebrity more adeptly and more adroitly than I have, Jennifer among them. My temperament is to be a little bit more reserved and private than hers. As happens in relationships, you don't always have the same attitude towards these things."
The former Hollywood power couple married in July 2022 in Las Vegas, 20 years after they first became engaged back in 2002 (the pair later called off their previous engagement in 2004).
Lopez announced the Las Vegas nuptials on her website at the time, sharing at the time, "We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient."
