Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler
This was when Bffleck and GOOP were dating, and he looks like this in almost all the photos from this event, including one I did not buy wherein he is leaning in to kiss Gwyneth and she is amused but also clearly just tolerating him. Unrelated, remember how this whole movie pivoted on SPACE DEMENTIA and also sex play with graham crackers? (This also seems like a good time to revisit this great Vulture piece called LET LIV TYLER GO TO SPACE.)
Gwyneth Paltrow
This look is so 1998 that I need to take to my bed. Those shoes! (Also she 100% dressed herself for this and did her own hair and makeup.)
Liv Tyler
Liv, on the other hand, had professional help (as befits the star of the movie!) and she looks great in this. She could literally wear this dress tomorrow -- or, you know. When we get to go outside again. If that ever happens -- and look steller.
Also: This premiere was at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, which I guess...explains whatever is happening behind her?! I don't know. Florida! Stay safe!
This is a lot of XXL pants on these men! (Ben looks fine.) And Liv Tyler looks like she wants Peter Stormare to take his hand off her shoulder. But Jessica Steen over there also looks great.
Bruce Willis
Bruce, these jeans were a CRIME. In his defense, he and Demi had announced their separation this SAME WEEK in 1998, so he might have been a bit at loose ends. She would not have let him out like this!
Aerosmith and Liv Tyler
Steven Tyler must be a rather exhausting parent AND co-worker.
Steven Tyler
WHERE does Steven end and his accessories begin?!?
Cuba Gooding Jr and Ben Affleck
Little do these two know, they're about to costar in one of the best bad movies ever, Pearl Harbor -- also starring another Bffleck love interest, Jennifer Garner.
Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton
Fun fact: These two were engaged, then she went off to film a movie and while she was gone he MARRIED ANGELINA JOLIE WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING TO LAURA FIRST AND IN FACT NEVER SPEAKING TO HER AGAIN. (That was two years away from this moment.)
Antonio Sabato Jr, and Virginia Madsen
We've also got pics of GUESTS from the movie premiere in Los Angeles, but I can't tell if the film's stars showed. It seems like they just went to the Florida premiere and that was it. Remember when there was just ONE movie premiere? Remember when THESE two dated? Because I did not. REMEMBER THOSE SHOES?
Heather Mills
I do NOT know why Heather Mills was at this. This was before she even met Paul McCartney. Having said that...y'all. Heather Mills's Wiki page is A RIDE. It is truly one of the craziest Wikipedias I have ever read, and I once read one about an aristocrat who believed her dead husband was reincarnated as a particularly irritating crow in her garden.
Garcelle Beauvais
I feel like she can look back at this and say, "yeah, I looked very cute in that dress."
Mimi Rogers
This is actually all very cute, as well.
Jennifer Lopez
Hello, J. Lo! This is when she was dating Sean Combs. But her future in the form of Bffleck was right in front of her.