Alanis Morissette Recalls ‘Dogma’ Co-Star Ben Affleck Asking Her Why She Didn’t “Lead With My Sexuality”
Now that Dogma has gotten its long-awaited re-release, Alanis Morissette is revisiting some behind-the-scenes tension.
During her Butterfly with a Knife residency at Inglewood’s YouTube Theater, the 7x Grammy winner called out Ben Affleck over an exchange about how she expressed her “sexuality” as they starred together in Kevin Smith’s 1999 religious satire.
“I even had a guy ask my why I didn’t lead with my sexuality,” said Morissette on stage as she listed criticisms she received over the years in a video recorded by EW. “Thank you Ben Affleck!”
Morissette then played a clip of Affleck’s fallen angel character Bartleby’s head exploding from the cult classic, in which Morissette made a cameo as God at the end to exact his punishment.
The film is finally available on streaming for the first time after it got a rerelease last year for its 25th anniversary when Smith regained the rights back from Miramax and Weinstein Co.
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