“And all you have to do is to just basically be conscious and sentient and say yes.”
“I couldn’t imagine there wasn’t a long line of people that wanted to take this part.
I wanted to do it for myself.”
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I was a villain.
And it was all just stuff that came along that I wasn’t chasing."
Affleck in a Pyrenees sandwich.
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“I’m like, ‘Do I still feel that?
Am I still good?’
I’m afraid it’s going to go away, you know?
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‘Cause it’s elusive.
But I’m happy now.
I’m feeling it now.
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I love it and I do think I’ve gotten better.
I think people generally get better with the age and experience.”
It just doesn’t work that way.
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And I felt at the time that I had really missed it in both directions.
Well, this doesn’t work.
I’ve got to do something different.’
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I’ve definitely learned more from failure than I have from success."
“At a certain point, I think I got associated with big studio movies,” Affleck says.
He offered me my first real lead without me having to audition, basically because we got along.
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I lived on his couch, and we rehearsed [Amy] like a play.
I knew every single line and beat before we did it.
And I loved him, I was grateful to him.
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I still love him."
“Entertainment has changed,” the actor says of the cultural shift from movies to prestige TV.
“Vaudeville, the silent pictures, talkies, color, television.
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But it’s possible for you to [still] tell a great story.
you might.Ozarkis spectacular.Successionis spectacular.
“I don’t think it’s COVID.
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I think it’s habits,” he says of the box office shift of the last several years.
That is a big investment.
And if you bomb, you lose a fortune.
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That might be it.”
It was $600,000.
My father had trouble working.
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My mother was a public school teacher."
But it was fun…. “It was just an abundance of riches, and I had so much fun.
And then it bombed.
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Nobody saw the movie, but it got great reviews.
It’s one of the movies that I’m glad to be part of.
I actually know where my feelings are.'
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I wasn’t really comfortable with what I really felt about things in the world.
I was trying to figure that out.
And the more I figured it out, the more accessible that was.
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Now I actually know where my feelings are.
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Ben Affleck on Entertainment Weekly’s February 2022 cover.Guy Aroch for EW
