Yellowstone superfan Jennifer Lopez enjoys a drink with Kevin Costner in Aspen

She is one of the biggest celebrity fans of the popular western crime series Yellowstone.

And Jennifer Lopez had a major nerd moment on Friday night when she got to hang out with the show’s late star, Kevin Costner.

The 55-year-old singer and actress and the 69-year-old actor and filmmaker were spotted enjoying drinks at the bar of iconic Western clothing store Kemo Sabe in Aspen, Colorado.

Jennifer was spotted earlier in the evening as she and her child Emme, 16, went shopping while dressed in their most stylish western looks.

She was spotted in the famous city days earlier as she prepared to celebrate Christmas there with her close friends and family, including her mother Guadalupe and sister Lynda Lopez.

Spending time with the star of one of her favorite shows was probably a treat for Jennifer, but her adoration for the critically dismissed series is said to have “disturbed” her estranged husband Ben Affleck during their marriage.

Jennifer looked effortlessly chic in a chunky black turtleneck with cheerful winter knit designs featuring reindeer and snowflakes.

She stuck to the western theme with a black cowboy hat over her top button.

She added a pop of color to the muted look with a turquoise shaft adorning her silver hatband, as well as a black feather fluttering in the wind.

Jennifer showed off some sparkle with a pair of diamond-encrusted Chanel earrings in the shape of the fashion house’s double C logo.

She was also accompanied by her child Emme, who uses gender-neutral pronouns.

They complemented their mother with a black cowboy hat, along with a long black leather shirt jacket, charcoal jeans and black boots.

Emme appeared to be joined by a friend, but their fraternal twin brother Max was spotted with the entourage.

It appeared that Jennifer had taken off her large sweater in favor of a slimmer black turtleneck while she was in the store.

She was seen in the store’s bar chatting with friends and Emme.

Kevin was seen chatting with her party, but it wasn’t clear how much time he spent with them or whether the two got much chance to chat.

The Dances With Wolves star and director looked suave with his thick salt-and-pepper mustache and soul patch, a look he’s been sporting since appearing in his flop Western Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1.

The film, the first in a proposed quarter of films, received mixed reviews from critics and was largely ignored by audiences at the cinema, despite Kevin’s army of Yellowstone fans.

The films reportedly contributed to his poor relationship with Yellowstone co-creator and showrunner Taylor Sheridan, as Kevin was reportedly upset about the show’s massive delays due to a lack of scripts from Sheridan, and he also asked for a had requested a smaller commitment in season five in order to shoot his Horizon films.

Costner looked like he was staying warm indoors thanks to his brown scar and black jacket.

Jennifer’s love for Kevin’s series Yellowstone was “disturbing” to her ex Ben Affleck, although he explained it was because of the show’s cast.

While chatting on The Bill Simmons Podcast with his best friend Matt Damon in March 2023, Affleck revealed that Jennifer was particularly attracted to the romance between Rip Wheeler (played by Cole Hauser) and Costner’s on-screen daughter, Beth Dutton (played by Kelly Reilly). ).

“Jen showed me an Instagram clip of a monologue [Reilly] is in the car with the kid talking about the ways to get rich,” Ben recalled. ‘And then [Jen] said, “I love this story of these two.”

‘I thought, “Wait a minute – with Cole Hauser? What do you like about it?’” he continued. “I find it a little disturbing that my wife really likes Yellowstone.”

Matt went on to explain that Hauser had been an old acting buddy for him and Ben when they first started in the industry.

The trio appeared in School Ties (1992), and Hauser was seen in Gus Van Sant’s 1997 classic Good Will Hunting, which Matt and Ben co-starred and co-wrote. The film later won them an Oscar for best original screenplay.

Matt said he was “always baffled that Cole wasn’t a huge movie star.

“When we worked with him, he was 16, I’ll never forget it,” Damon remembers. “We drove back to Boston… we left for the first week, drove into Cambridge, and we were like… ‘Leaving me and you, who’s the best actor here?’ And we were both like, ‘Hauser.’

He added that the future Yellowstone star was “amazing” and full of “raw talent” and “just the sweetest soul.”

“He was a raw talent; just amazing… and just the sweetest soul,” the Bourne Identity star continued.

Ben added that Cole was “very convincing” on Yellowstone. “I think America believes he’s Rip.”

Costner left Yellowstone before the release of the second half of the fifth and final season, reportedly due to problems with Sheridan and disagreements over pay.

His character, patriarch John Dutton, was killed off in the season 5B premiere, and the show concluded its run earlier this month with a series finale that was lambasted by critics.

Jennifer and Ben, who dated and were engaged from 2002 to 2004, were reunited in the spring of 2021.

They married in the summer of 2022, first in Vegas and then with a larger ceremony at Ben’s estate in Georgia, but they were dogged by rumors of trouble in paradise in 2023 and 2024, and Jennifer filed for divorce on August 20 , the date of their wedding. their second wedding anniversary.

Kevin suffered his own heartbreak in recent years after his wife Christin Baumgartner filed for divorce in May 2023.

Their tumultuous divorce, which saw them feud over assets and a prenuptial agreement, was finalized in February this year.