Ben Affleck cheekily mocked his wife Jennifer Lopez in her new documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told.

The Prime Video production charts the singer during the making of her latest album This Is Me… Now as well as her twenty-year journey to ‘self-love’.

In the programme, Jennifer, 54, is heard as she explains her plans for the trio of projects – an ambitious musical film, her album, and the documentary – to Ben, 51.

But upon hearing the direction, the actor poked fun at the age Jennifer was claiming to be in one of the scenes.

JLo reads: ‘Opening her eyes in a hospital bed, younger, age 28, and she wasn’t emaciated, but exhausted.’

Ben Affleck, 51, cheekily mocked his wife Jennifer Lopez, 54, in her new documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told

During the scenes, Jennifer is heard as she explains her plans for the trio of projects to Ben as he poked fun at the age she was claiming to be

‘Technically you weren’t 28, but…’ Ben interrupted.

The singer added: ‘Yep. All her friends are. But you were. You were. That’s why you were not as smart as me.’Ben laughed: ‘I love that you want to be played younger, even in the autobiographical.’

She replied: ‘This is not my autobiographical. This is meta. This is me using some of my story.

‘I see. Semi-autobiographical. It’s your story, but younger,’ he said,  while JLo muttered: ‘Idiot.’

The couple’s love story started in 2002 when they dated while filming the movie Jersey Girl. They became engaged the following year but broke up in 2004.

Yet it was meant to be for the couple, known collectively as Bennifer, who found their way back to one another in July 2021, marrying just one year later.

They detailed the highs and lows of their rekindled romance in Jennifer’s new documentary, with Ben revealed he initially asked his wife to keep their relationship offline when they decided to give things another ago.

The couple’s love story started in 2002 when they dated while filming the movie Jersey Girl. They became engaged the following year but broke up in 2004

While navigating their reconciliation, two decades following their first engagement, the two-time Oscar winner admitted he had zero interest in becoming a fixture on his wife’s social media accounts.

‘Getting back together, I said, ‘Listen, one of the things I don’t want is a relationship on social media,’ the actor recalled.

‘Then I sort of realized it’s not a fair thing to ask. It’s sort of like, you’re gonna marry a boat captain and you go, “Well, I don’t like the water.”‘

He continued: ‘We’re just two people with different kinds of approaches trying to learn to compromise.’

Ultimately, Jennifer respected his wishes, and has only posted a small handful of snaps featuring him, including a raunchy shirtless photo last Father’s Day and a sweet video of them singing Sam Cooke’s (What A) Wonderful World in the car on his birthday.

During the documentary, the mother-of-two acknowledged Ben’s discomfort with stepping in the spotlight as a couple after facing intense media scrutiny when they first dated between 2002 and 2004.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck release documentary on their romance

Yet it was meant to be for the couple, known collectively as Bennifer, who found their way back to one another in July 2021, marrying just one year later (pictured last week)

‘I don’t think [Ben] is very comfortable with me doing all of this,’ she said. ‘But he loves me, he knows I’m an artist, and he’s gonna support me in every way he can because he knows you can’t stop me from making the music I made… he doesn’t want to stop me. But that doesn’t mean he’s comfortable being the muse.’

The couple got engaged near the end of 2002 but broke the engagement in late 2003 before ending their relationship entirely in 2004.

In the intervening years, Jennifer married and divorced her third ex-husband Marc Anthony, with whom she welcomed her 15-year-old twins Max and Emme.

Meanwhile, Ben married and divorced Jennifer Garner, with whom he amicably co-parents three children – Violet, 18, Seraphina, 14, and Samuel, 11.