He also appeared in a number of television movies and in the s, he landed roles in Lifestories: Families in Crisis and a number of films, including School Ties , which also featured Brendan Fraser and Matt Damon.
The early s also marked the start of Affleck's collaboration with the director Kevin Smith, appearing in 's Chasing Amy and 's Mallrats. He later went on to take the lead in Jersey Girl, another of Smith's projects.
However, his career soon took something of a nosedive, with the release of box office flops such as Gigli, in which he co-starred with his girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Lopez. His festive release, Surviving Christmas suffered a similar fate in the hands of movie critics and the cinema-going public.
In , Ben Affleck staged a comeback with the film Hollywoodland, a biopic about the life of George Reeves. That year, he also starred in Smokin' Aces, after which he gave up smoking, having been forced to smoke so heavily during the filming of the movie.
Personal Life: In , when Gwyneth Paltrow had finished dating Brad Pitt, she had a high profile relationship with Ben Affleck, though the romance was short-lived. In , Affleck began dating Jennifer Lopez. Their engagement was announced that same year. Their relationship was constantly under the media's spotlight but the couple never made it to their wedding, which had been planned for September They split up prior to that date.
In May , Garner's pregnancy was announced. In June , they married in the Caribbean. In December that year, garner gave birth to their daughter, Violet Anne Affleck. Ben Affleck. Hollywood superstar Ben Affleck has left rehab after a day treatment program at an alcohol addiction center. He opened up about his struggle in a statement on social media, thanking his fans and encouraging anyone else who had the same illness to seek help.
Ben Affleck on the way to pick up his kids. The year-old is now in outpatient care following more than a month in a residential rehabilitation facility being treated for alcoholism; something that he has struggled with for most of his adult life, much like his father before him.
Affleck, currently in rehab, could be too expensive and risky for Warner Bros. The 46 year old actor is currently in the middle of his second rehabilitation stretch in under a year, and therefore could be too high a liability for Warner Bros.
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Gene Wilder starred in Young Frankenstein. Ben Affleck has checked back into rehab again to try to finally prevail in his battle with alcoholism, reportedly at the behest of his estranged wife Jennifer Garner, after she staged an intervention.
TMZ also reported that his decision was also partly because of the intervention of his wife Jennifer Garner, who was seen arriving at his home on Wednesday August 22nd and then driving him to a treatment centre in Malibu. Ben Affleck Jennifer Garner. The Batman actor has been dating the TV producer for a year after his amicable split from Jennifer Garner.
The story between Ben Affleck and his estranged wife, Jennifer Garner , has been rumbling on as the the love that refused to die but it seems Affleck is now even further away from reuniting with his ex after moving on to another new partner. After his amicable split from Jen, 46, in - after ten years of marraige - it took two years before the actors filed for divorce and, one year on, that has still not been finalised while pictures of the pair playing happy families with their three children continued to surface.
Jennifer Garner Ben Affleck. Garner filed court papers back in April last year, but is apparently giving Affleck time to dedicate himself to getting clean. Having previously been seen as one of the most stable marriages in Hollywood, Affleck and Garner announced their separation way back in June , with Jen then only getting around to filing official court papers to start the divorce process in April Affleck was the subject of a New Yorker article last week that went viral for all the wrong reasons.
Ben Affleck has spoken out after a furor erupted on social media following the publication of a piece in the New Yorker that some thought to be fat-shaming.
An article published back on March 24th showed images of Affleck on a beach in Hawaii the previous weekend, shooting Netflix original film Triple Frontier with co-stars Garrett Hedlund and Charlie Hunnam. Ben Affleck is returning to the big screen a little later this month in 'Justice League', following his debut as the Dark Knight himself, Batman in 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' in early Though that film wasn't seen as anything too special by a large portion of critics and the public, Affleck's performance as Bruce Wayne was one of the standout moments that did work, according to many.
As of , he has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Field of Dreams , Good Will Hunting , Shakespeare in Love and Argo , with the two latter winning in the category. With his casting in the new Batman vs. In his film Jersey Girl , Affleck refers to his transportation as "the Batmobile. Of the first three actors to play Jack Ryan, he was Tom Clancy 's favourite. Was only five-foot one when entering high school and describes himself as having been ''An awkward theater geek''.
Received a lifetime ban from playing blackjack at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Casino due to his card counting skills. He also directed the latter. He and to-be-ex wife Jennifer Garner announced their divorce on June 30, , which is exactly 10 years and one day after their wedding occurred. The first of these, which was directed by Richard Linklater , was the only one of the five not directed by Kevin Smith. He is a member of the Five-Timers club, a nickname for performers who have hosted Saturday Night Live - at least five times.
Tenth cousin once removed of Matt Damon. They are both descendants of William Knowlton Jr. He is distantly related to sixteen U. He is also distantly related to the late Princess Diana. Close friends with George Clooney , who has also played the role of Batman. The May 4, , edition of Variety, announced the film "Atuk" began filming February 16, , but production halted after one day.
Director was Alan Metter. The cast included Christopher Walken and Ben Affleck. He was playing with friends and found the door to the cellar crypt where the disc was located.
In a relationship with actress Ana de Armas []. Was, at one point, considered to direct a Justice League movie which was to be scripted by Will Beall. Was considered to direct Man of Steel Was attached to direct an adaptation of The Stand describing it as "'Lord of the Rings' set in America". However, after several failed attempts at adapting the book to film, the project was ultimately re-purposed as a miniseries developed by Josh Boone and Benjamin Cavell.
I can't tell if I have a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex. I get to watch my life like everyone else and think. And, for whatever reason, you become less special for movie audiences.
It cheapens the brand if you want to look at it in a really crass sense. But I figure it has to go away at some point. Eventually someone will come along and have a sex tape or someone will play grab-ass with some kids and I'll be off page one. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for.
I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are. But you have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world. You have Rush Limbaugh , was a radio disc jockey. Bill O'Reilly came from Inside Edition Michael Moore 's a filmmaker. Al Franken was on Saturday Night Live The line is increasingly blurred between news and entertainment.
Secondarily, the media's also shoving celebrities down our throats all the time. As a person, I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life. I went to the Los Angeles fund raiser.
I wasn't in the one in New York. I think when you have somebody -- you know, if you did a rock concert that was a benefit and The Who played their music or The Rolling Stones , you'd expect to get, you know, "Satisfaction" or "My Generation. And I think there is a fine line, and you have to be a little bit mindful. And I, for one, am not going to do any scatological jokes or puns about the president's last name on your show, mostly for that reason.
But I also think I expect a different code of behavior maybe from comedians who have made a career with a certain kind of comedy than I do from, oh, say, the Vice President of the United States [referring to Vice President [ Dick Cheney , who told Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy to "Go fuck yourself" on the floor of the Senate], who used this vulgar language, you know, to a senator and was sort of unapologetic about it.
So I think the Republicans hitting her [Whoopi] too hard for that is a little bit hypocritical. You know, that's something that you can do. And unlike, say, fund-raisers sponsored by -- you know, engineered by insurance companies or oil companies, at least what you can say for celebrities is they're not expecting, you know, deregulation of their industry in return. So that's one of things that I'm, I've been able to do and to try to help them do it.
Other than that, you know, I've lived this sort of strange, sometimes unpleasant, but mostly very lucky life that's involved lately a lot of media attention. And one of the things that feels good to me to do is to try to steer that in a direction of something more significant and at least be -- try to create some political dialogue.
And that's satisfying. Some people react to me kindly, and others don't. That's sort of the nature of politics. And I think that's why, you know, actually, people say, Well, you see all these celebrities. To my mind, you see very, very few. Most feel like, and probably correctly so, that to be identified with one side of the ideological fence or other risks alienating a segment of your audience that may like your movies, may want to buy your tickets, and in fact, may make it more difficult for them to suspend their disbelief when they go see you in a movie because they have you closely identified with something else.
For me, part of that is already compromised, and it's also something that's interesting enough for me, and I don't care quite so much about that kind of image that I'm able to do it. But I think a lot of people shy away from it, and many celebrities you see who've gone out there, tried to be active, have gotten pretty beaten down, you know?
And so I think there is a risk, yes. Bush in the [] debates, which is tremendously low expectations.
Bush , after hearing that New York was under attack on Sept 11, remained in a Florida classroom, doing nothing, for several minutes] It's obviously very disturbing footage. On the one hand, you see a reaction on a man's face that he is clearly pained and shocked. I probably did the same thing sitting on my chair. I was completely freaked out and a little devastated. On the other hand, one does hope that in one's leaders, that they have the instinct to spring into action, to take some action or make the appearance of taking some action.
And I was disappointed to see that he didn't do that, although I don't entirely hold it against him because, frankly, I was as shocked and devastated as he was. Although I think flying around in Air Force One for 11 hours before coming back and landing in the White House was probably less forgivable. When I got to L. He gave me this big lecture and said, "You know how much money I made in 20 years of acting? Eight thousand dollars. And I'm a carpenter. Then he got really stoned and I went home and felt sick.
I think it was just morbid fear. I was That fear stays with you so intensely and you're constantly just getting turned down for what you think of as the most vapid, stupid kind of paycheck, Baywatch things, and you think, "Jesus, if I'm not good enough for this, then I'm not going to make it". This town is too hard, and people were always telling me, "You're too big, you're too tall, you can only play bullies and you will never be a leading man.
I lived in Hollywood, then I moved. And we were shocked later on to find out how much we owed in taxes. But we rented this house on the beach in Venice and people came and stayed with us and got drunk. Then we ran out of money and had to get an apartment. It was like everything was exciting.
We'd get thrown out of some places or we'd have to upgrade or downgrade depending on who had money. It's like Christmas: it's all advertising, and the first rule of selling somebody something is to make them seem inadequate. Make them feel like they need it. Like fabric softener. Nobody really needs fabric softener and yet, all of a sudden, you feel like a jackass if you don't have fabric softener, so people buy it. You are bombarded with this stuff - money will make you happy, and keeping up with the Joneses.
Obviously that stuff doesn't make you happy, otherwise there wouldn't be all these unhappy rich people. They'd all be happy in their jacuzzis and OK, some of them are. God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it.
If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money. Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. Other actors are like, "You can't do that", or "You can't do this. This will position you in the wrong way. And obviously so, because you can see I don't craft or cultivate my career.
I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that.
You had better learn quick or you get burnt. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe. I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with [ Gwyneth Paltrow ] that's really valuable.
I'm always described as "cocksure" or "with a swagger", and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His parents separated soon after he was born, and officially divorced when he was After the split, Affleck and his siblings moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Affleck's first acting experience came at the age of seven when he appeared in The Dark End of the Street , an independent film produced by a friend of the family.
That same year he met his future best friend, Matt Damon , a year-old who lived two blocks away. The boys later attended the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where they both took drama classes.
While still in high school, Affleck appeared in several network TV dramas. Affleck briefly attended the University of Vermont and California's Occidental College but left to pursue his dreams of acting in Hollywood. Affleck then appeared as a bully in the cult classic Dazed and Confused He then joined the ensemble cast in director Kevin Smith's Mallrats and was the romantic lead in Smith's Chasing Amy In , Affleck and Damon collaborated on a screenplay called Good Will Hunting about a troubled young math genius.
After a long struggle to get the script produced, Miramax purchased the rights to the film in Affleck and Damon won Golden Globe and Academy Awards for best original screenplay, thrusting the friends into the public eye. After his Oscar win, Affleck earned several high-profile film roles. That same year, he landed a supporting turn in the popular film Shakespeare in Love , which won a number of Academy Awards, including the prize for best picture.
Affleck made headlines when he began a high-profile romance with Shakespeare in Love co-star Gwyneth Paltrow. The couple announced their breakup in late , but they remained good friends.
That year he also starred in the poorly reviewed romantic comedy, Forces of Nature , co-starring Sandra Bullock. In , Affleck turned in a supporting performance in the slick stock-market drama Boiler Room and headlined the fast-paced action thriller Reindeer Games , co-starring Charlize Theron and Gary Sinise. He also co-starred opposite Paltrow in the romantic drama Bounce.
Shortly after the film hit theaters, Affleck checked himself into an exclusive rehabilitation center in Malibu, California, to undergo treatment for alcohol abuse. The son of an alcoholic, Affleck announced through a spokesman that he "decided that a fuller life awaits him without alcohol.
Affleck also partnered with Damon again and founded the production company LivePlanet. The duo produced the documentary series Project Greenlight , which gave aspiring screenwriters the opportunity to produce their creative visions. The show earned three Emmy nominations in the category of reality programming.
The movie fared well at the box office and cemented Affleck's reputation as an action star. His next film, the comic book action-adventure movie Daredevil , also performed well, setting a box-office record for its Presidents' Day-weekend debut. Following his stint in rehab, Affleck found romance with actress and musician Jennifer Lopez.
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