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Ben Affleck on career after JLo romance ended: 'I was the lowest rung of cool'

Hollywood actor Ben Affleck has revealed that his career nosedived after he split with then-fiancée Jennifer Lopez. 

He appeared on Bill Simmons' Any Given Wednesday earlier this week and explained that being in the spotlight during that time was tough:

"If you went by what people said... I wasn't cool and I wasn't talented, and I was, like, the lowest rung of cool and talented that you could possibly be in the public consciousness at that time. I had broken up with Jennifer Lopez and I had, like, three or four movies in a row that had bombed."

Affleck went onto add that he decided to throw himself back into work and try his hand at directing: "'Hey, I want to take up directing, which is for people that are taken seriously. That became my mantra: 'I'm just going to work harder than everybody else'."

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