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Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi (1984, 1988). He later appeared in the independent comedy Dazed and Confused (1993) and several Kevin Smith comedies, including Chasing Amy (1997).
- Suffering as The Key to His Sobriety
- Jennifer Garner, J. Lo, and Those Darned Paparazzi
- His Friendship with Matt Damon
- Making ‘Good Will Hunting’ Great
- ‘Boiler Room’
- ‘Argo’ Snub Yourself
- Batman Backlash
- The Future of Hollywood
Professional setbacks aren’t the only ones he’s overcome since finding fame. Like his father before him, he struggled with substance abuse. “I used to go to meetings and hear all these old timers say, ‘I’m a grateful alcoholic and the obsession left me a long time ago.’ And I’d get so angry. I’d be like, ‘Fuck you. You’re not grateful. What are you...
Ben told Howard that doing right by his three children with actress Jennifer Garner has been the guiding force in his life, affecting everything from the couple’s choice to part ways in 2018 to his and superstar entertainer Jennifer Lopez’s decision to rekindle their romance in 2021. “My responsibility to my children is the highest responsibility I...
While America didn’t discover their bromance until 1997’s “Good Will Hunting,” Ben’s friendship with actor and creative partner Matt Damon dates way back to their childhoods in Boston. “I was eight, he was ten … the brief moment where he was taller than me,” he joked of Damon before talking about the individual paths they took after the success of ...
While “Good Will Hunting” helped make them superstars, Ben insists the early versions of it were anything but good. “The first script was shit, it was dogshit,” he told Howard matter-of-factly, claiming it was a conglomeration of popular films from the past. “It was like a little ‘E.T.,’ a little ‘Beverly Hills Cop,’ … the feds were after Will … it...
Before Howard let Ben go, he proclaimed his love for his speech in 2000’s “Boiler Room” — a fact that came as no surprise to the actor. “New York guys love that movie,” he said of the film in which he plays a co-founder of a corrupt brokerage firm. “[They] always bring it back to me and talk about it.” Looking back at the experience with great fond...
Ben’s Hollywood comeback was cemented when “Argo,” a film he directed and starred in, took home Best Picture at the 85thAcademy Awards. Howard imagined that must’ve been a gratifying moment for an actor who’d overcome a lot. “I’m not going to lie, that was the single most sort of self-satisfying moment,” Ben recalled. “For so long, I felt I gotta p...
Ben considers his children when making career moves, too, and he told Howard he agreed to star as the Caped Crusader in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” just to impress them. “I wanted to do a movie for my kids—for my son—that they would see and be proud of, and now I realize your kids by definition are never proud of you,” he laughed. “They lo...
Between the rise of digital streamers and the onset of the pandemic, Hollywood has undergone several seismic changes over the past decade and now less people are venturing out to see movies in theaters. 2021 has been an especially challenging year for big-budget releases and Ridley Scott’s action-epic “The Last Duel,” co-starring and co-written by ...
Mar 1, 2013 · Here, we trace his trajectory from actor to auteur, and find that Affleck may have been directing his own career all along. 1980-1990 – Child star
He started acting at a very young age by staring in teleseries like ‘The Voyage of the Mimi’. It was in his high school that Affleck met his best friend, co-star and co-writer Matt Damon, with whom he co-wrote the script for the biggest movie of his career ‘Good Will Hunting’.
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Aug 12, 2022 · According to Ben Affleck, he was considered a bit of a weirdo during his school days for pursuing a career in acting. His peers were left scratching their heads as to why he would want to do such ...
Sep 24, 2010 · After beginning his career with an appearance in The Dark End Of The Street in 1981 (for which we sadly couldn’t find a still), Affleck took a role in TV movie Hands Of A Stranger in 1987 ...
Oct 14, 2021 · Affleck sets his sights on bigger productions like Armageddon (1998); Damon prefers director-driven dramas like The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) or, um, The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). Ben also ...
