Affleck obsessed with Lopez' love

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Actor Ben Affleck was in New York City to promote his new film "Paycheck," but what he wanted to talk about was his love Jennifer Lopez.

In "Paycheck," he plays a genius who invents time-vaulting computers while battling bad guys and romancing Uma Thurman. But when asked about the films opening on Christmas Day, he talked about Lopez, the New York Daily News reported.

"We're going up to Boston for Christmas Eve to be with my folks ... and spend Christmas Day in the Bronx with Jen's (folks)," Affleck said

Despite canceling their wedding three months ago, Affleck said that he and Lopez have grown closer.

"We're much more similar, including our upbringing, than people imagine," he said.

Affleck, grew up in a Protestant middle-class Irish home in Boston, where he attended public school. Lopez grew up Roman Catholic in a middle-class Puerto Rican home in the Bronx where she too attended pubic school.

"I was really much more different from Gwyneth (Paltrow), this blond, upper-class, private-school girl from the upper East Side, and Jen from Puffy, who was this Horatio Alger kind of black guy who raised himself up the way he did," he said.