Some hot and heavy couples are torn apart when September interrupts their summer flight. For Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, this is a case of reality that destroys their pandemic love affair.
“The quarantine was unique because they stopped and got to know each other really well at home,” a source familiar with Affleck and de Armas told The Post. “But as soon as the work was done, things started to change.”
De Armas has just signed with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling for the film ‘The Gray Man’, while Affleck will next star in George Clooney’s adaptation of the book ‘The Tender Bar’.
After months of beloved locks – with PDA-filled dog walking and coffee in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood – it was reported this week that the two had withdrawn.
Repl for Affleck and de Armas declined to comment.
Rumors only spread about a split when they did not spend the holiday together and de Armas went home to Havana, Cuba.
For de Armas, LA is just a workplace. According to friends, she has a house in Cuba, where her family still lives, and believes it is her home.
‘She’s here for work reasons; like all actors, she lives wherever work takes her, ”said one de Armas.
“Ana has decided she does not want to live in LA and Ben wants to be close to his family,” the source, who knows both stars, said of Affleck’s three young children with ex Jennifer Garner. ‘His priority is to be rooted in LA. They are in different places [in their lives]. ”
There was also the issue that – as Page Six reports – de Armas (32) wants her own children, while Affleck (48), according to friends, no longer wants children.
And merging with an established family is not always an easy task.
‘Ana is fantastic and the kids loved her. I think any essay is difficult to be someone who gets into a relationship like this, ‘says the source who knows the couple.
“That’s why Ben and Lindsay are apart – his children will always be a priority,” the sources added about Affleck’s romance with ‘Saturday Night Live’ producer Lindsay Shookus, with whom he dated in 2017-2018. has and again in 2019 after going to rehab for alcohol abuse. (A rep for Shookus does not comment.)
The Oscar winner spoke openly about his sobriety struggle.
In February 2020, he told The New York Times: “I started drinking every day. I would come home from work and start drinking, and I would just sit there and drink until I disappeared on the couch. ‘.
But insiders also say Affleck, despite his material issues, is a dedicated, involved father.
They also say that Garner, who is described as a very protective mother, approved of the Armas as she seems to be keeping Affleck on an even keel.
Affleck and de Armas met on the set of the thriller ‘Deep Water’, which was filmed in 2019, but that the release date is being pushed to the summer of 2021. They were spotted on a romantic getaway to Cuba in March 2020 before leaving for Costa Rica and then LA just before the first exclusion began.
The pandemic helped them get close quickly, as a source close to them told The Post at the time: ‘Ben was on the plan. [of ‘The Last Duel’] . . . and Ana were meant to be on a world tour [for the James Bond film ‘No Time to Die’].
“Spending so much time together is a real blessing.”
De Armas was seen in photos with an engagement ring on, but is quickly revealed as a prop for ‘Deep Water’.
De Armas moved into the actor’s home in Brentwood and planted a cardboard pruning of herself on his lawn in June – apparently as a way to troll paparazzi.
This week, a masked man like Affleck’s actor brother Casey Affleck was seen throwing the cutout in a trash can. Casey denied that he was, but told Entertainment Entertainment Tonight:
‘The reality is that I think people have been having a hard time in relationships this year. . . I think Ana is just the sweetest, funniest, smartest, most charming person. I think she will have no trouble meeting anyone else. ”
Casey, who is divorced, added: ‘And I’ll be there to carry Ben through it, but I do not think he’s going to have any problems. My advice to them would be like, ‘Yeah, think about it for a long time [the decision to break up], because quarantine is not nice if you are single. ‘”
Although de Armas has moved and is reportedly looking for her own home-from-Cuba in West Hollywood, the source who knows her and Affleck think that all hope may not be lost.
“They had a very solid relationship and are really upset that they came to a place where they have to break up,” the source said. ‘There’s a lot of love there. They were really good to each other and I think it will bring a friendship. ‘