Jennifer Garner is sharing some hilarious details about what it was like being married to Ben Affleck. The 53-year-old has stayed relatively private when it comes to the father of her children, but the stuff she does choose to share is pretty amazing. Everyone knows how good it feels to listen to things on repeat, and it turns out Affleck is one of those people who likes a good loop. He also might be one of Beyoncé's biggest fans.
Per PEOPLE, Garner joined author Laura Dave and Rita Wilson for a conversation to celebrate Dave's "The First Time I Saw Him", the sequel to "The Last Thing He Told Me." But it was Garner’s unexpected detour into her personal archives that stole the night.
As the conversation turned to creative habits, Garner revealed that Dave likes to write while listening to the same song on repeat - a practice that immediately unlocked a memory from her own past. “Do you guys do this? Do you listen to a song over and over again?” she asked. “I just want to tell you something. I’ve survived this. I have lived through it.”
Garner went on to share that her famous ex-husband works the exact same way. She said that when he was filming The Town (2017), Ben had one song on constant loop, Queen Bey's "Halo."
The 13 Going on 30 star and Affleck were married from 2005 to 2015, and share three children: Violet, Fin, and Samuel. “I had a three-month-old and a three-year-old, living in a rental in Cambridge, Massachusetts,” Garner said, setting the scene, “and he listened to Beyoncé’s ‘Halo,’ and I would be nursing.”
What Ben has said
The Batman star has opened up in the past about his love of hitting repeat. In a 2016 interview for the Golden Globes, he said that looping music helps him lock into the emotional tone of a scene, calling it “hypnotic."
“I listen to music when I write, and usually I will find a couple of songs that are inspiring to me and I just sort of put them on a loop, and then I will write to music," the 53-year-old said. "I find that it’s kind of hypnotic, and it allows me to concentrate more, and it puts me more in the kind of feeling of the scene that I want the story to have."