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“AIR” DIRECTOR AND STAR BEN AFFLECK  

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Air Date: Friday, April 21^st    

 

 

 

 

VIDEOS:

Ben Affleck on Jennifer Lopez Eating Whatever She Wants and Looking Amazing

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/KVFGeXfI8sQ6

Drew: Do you have a cheat drawer in the house?

Ben: Let me tell you something that’s gonna upset you. Jennifer just eats whatever she wants. Whatever she wants. She eats cookies, ice cream, everything.

Drew: Is it the working out?

Ben: She works out. I work out too but I don’t magically appear to be twenty years old, you know what I mean, with perfect skin and the whole thing. There’s no taking away of the work ethic, the work ethic is real, the discipline is real, but also the superhuman thing is real. She’s the most gorgeous woman in the world, she looks spectacular.

Benon The Burger King Commercial He Taped When He Was 16

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Ben: If I had known that the commercial would get this kind of response I would have been much more optimistic about my career. I don’t remember the similar enthusiasm at the time. I almost had the director fire me and now I can see why.

Drew: What do you remember about that commercial other than, you just gave a tidbit, you were almost fired?

Ben: Yes, I do remember that. I remember a couple of things. One, I was sixteen or maybe just turned seventeen and I remember the car guy, you know because it was a car in the commercial and I had to drive, and they’re always worried about actors driving. I remember he asked me, ‘Do you know how to drive kid?’ it was in New York and I was like, ‘Yeah I know how to drive,’ they were like, ‘Are you sure?’ I was like, ‘Guys I’ve driven five hundred or a thousand miles.’…I also remember being like, ‘I don’t know why this director keeps making me do it over and over again,’ and now looking at the performance I have a better idea.

Ben Affleck on Talking to Michael Jordan About the Movie

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/efZDztjIKHOY

Drew: The choices you made as a filmmaker, I’ll tackle another one which is I’ve heard you out there saying you didn’t want to have Michael Jordan or an actor play him, so smart everyone’s gonna look at that and be like, ‘That’s not Jordan.’

Ben: I don’t believe that it would be possible to get an audience to believe that anyone other than Michael Jordan is Michael Jordan and so to see his face and sell there he his, it would not only lose the audience but then they’d be like, ‘This is all false, this is all a lie,’ and so much of the work you’re trying to do is create realism but that’s really his mom’s story, it’s not his story. So in fact talking to him, he was like, ‘My mom did this. My mom took me to work. I wanted to play Nintendo,’….so it’s not that he was driving that aspect of it. He’s brilliant, he’s the greatest.

Ben on Him and Matt Damon Going Broke Six Months After Selling "Good Will Hunting" Script

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/ofjLC871p0jS

Drew: Is it true that you guys had a shared bank account and then you like blew that money and rented a house with it, but in that house you wrote ‘Good Hill Hunting?’ Is that accurate?

Ben: That is a little bit out of order but it is accurate. What happened was, we did share a bank account and I always thought it was perfectly normal. We wanted to be actors and we were in Boston and we wanted to go to New York…so we would work a little bit, we would do extra work or a line here and there, the occasional Burger King commercial and then take that money and put it in the account and we were both, we were friends and we wanted each other to succeed and we love each other so it seemed clear like let’s do this together and in retrospect, really valuable because I think kind of starting out in a field like that can feel very lonely but we shared that bank account into our twenties, even into when we lived, and wrote ‘Good Will Hunting’ in a house in Eagle Rock, which is a neighborhood in Los Angeles which was, at the time, a very inexpensive neighborhood and very far from all the places you had to go to audition and then when we sold ‘Good Will Hunting’ I was like, ‘We are now rich for life. My needs are over, I will never have to work again. I’m rich forever.’ We sold it for $600,000, we split that, $300,000 each, and then the agents got $30,000 so we had $270,000 and we paid about $160,000 in taxes so we had $110,000, each bought $55,000 Jeep Cherokees and then had $55,000 left which naturally we decided to rent a $5,000 a month party house on Glencoe Way by the Hollywood Bowl and we were broke in six months.

Ben Affleck Plays Final Five Revealing Pet Peeves, Day He’d Want to Relive & More

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/goIajYcADCrc

Drew: Will you play a game with me called the final five?...number one, what is a random pet peeve that drives you nuts?

Ben: People who want to get paid for doing nothing.

Drew:…What’s a life moment that you want to live again and again?

Ben: There’s so many things, the birth of my children, all the things that I’ve done with my kids. It’s just the joy of life, it’s the heart of life. These beautiful children who are innocent and loving and want to sit on your lap and hold you, and then they turn into, ‘You can close the door,’ like, ‘Oh so you don’t want to play Chutes and Ladders, I can just go?’ it’s the gift of life all those moments and I’m beginning to see now how they are fleeting but now I treasure all these little moments. I just went and looked at colleges with my daughter and I showed ‘Good Will Hunting’ to my middle child, that was one of the best experiences of my life.

Drew:…If we asked your beautiful wife today if there was one thing she could change about you, what would it be?

Ben: She would probably want to cultivate brevity in the way I speak. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I go on and on and on. I talk in circles. She’s never said that to me but that would be my guess.

Drew: When was the last time you went skinny dipping?

Ben: This is gonna turn into a different kind of story. My wife and I went on a little vacation recently, we went in the pool, I don’t know if that counts as skinny dipping. It wasn’t like eighties college movie.

Drew: Were you naked?

Ben: We were naked in the pool yeah.

Drew:…final question, if there was one film that you could remake what would it be?

Ben: That’s a difficult question because I wouldn’t remake any of the movies I love because

they’re made by my heroes and they’re brilliant and they should be left just as they are.

Drew and Ben on Having RBF

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/FxqXCu9SAxuG

Ben:…the problem is when that’s your resting face, some misinterpret it because here I am having a great time.

Drew: Do you have RBF?

Ben: What’s that?

Drew: Resting bitch face.

Ben: I definitely have RBF if I can say that.

Ben on Directing "Argo" and the Audience Knowing the End

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/BamvWlEIByuD

Drew: Okay sorry pivot, how do you direct a scene like ‘Argo,’ it’s just the edge of your seat scene, I’ve seen it fifty times…

Ben: What if I’ve found is that it’s hard because you like, ‘Geez well everybody knows what’s gonna happen’ so you think this makes my job difficult but actually the truth is you get a lot of tail wind because people already know what happens and they enjoy being in on it. Like it’s not about the outcome, audiences don’t watch movies I think to see the plot resolved, because most of you know what the resolution is gonna be if you think about it. It’s really that if you connect to the characters emotionally and you believe in them and you identify with them, you wanna see them reach a resolution because it makes you feel better.