Ben Affleck has completed a remarkable U-turn from box office turn-off to respected directorial talent. Matt Mueller asks him, warily, how he did it
Ben Affleck must long for the day when curiosity about his time as one half of "Bennifer", the original and much-mocked celebrity fusion couple, finally vanishes for good. When I broach the topic at the Toronto film festival, where he's in town banging the drum for The Town, the 38-year-old star only just stops himself from rolling his eyes. He shifts around in the chair he'd been reclining in quite comfortably in a way that suggests he can't quite believe he's being asked to rake over these coals again. "That stuff happened when Barack Obama was a state senator from Illinois," he mutters. "I mean, it's another day now."
He's right: in Hollywood, redemption can lie just around the corner, and Affleck's own rehabilitation act...
Ben Affleck must long for the day when curiosity about his time as one half of "Bennifer", the original and much-mocked celebrity fusion couple, finally vanishes for good. When I broach the topic at the Toronto film festival, where he's in town banging the drum for The Town, the 38-year-old star only just stops himself from rolling his eyes. He shifts around in the chair he'd been reclining in quite comfortably in a way that suggests he can't quite believe he's being asked to rake over these coals again. "That stuff happened when Barack Obama was a state senator from Illinois," he mutters. "I mean, it's another day now."
He's right: in Hollywood, redemption can lie just around the corner, and Affleck's own rehabilitation act...
- 9/23/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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