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3. Jennifer Lopez - Hustlers

Hustlers Jennifer Lopez
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As mentioned earlier, Ben Affleck suffered a major fall from grace in the 2000s, and his then-partner Jennifer Lopez pretty much went with him.

A hugely successful recording artist and movie star, JLo was a pop-culture behemoth at her peak, headlining movies and breaking recording sales records across the globe. Her relationship with Affleck though, and the critical and commercial stink of their joint project Gigli, threw all this into disarray.

The movie world pretty much decided her time was up, and after a string of failures JLo focused on music and made a career pivot to TV, where she admittedly didn't suffer for work.

That was until Hustlers came out of nowhere in 2019 though, starring and produced by JLo herself. With a stunning all-star cast, the biting comedy all about a group of strippers who band together to rip off their sleazy male clientele proved to be a hit, with Lopez's performance in particular being singled out as not only a return to form, but the best work of her career.

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