At 25, he became the youngest screenwriter to win an Oscar. Today, he's one of Hollywood's biggest names — and one of the internet's favorite memes.
From his early successes to the latest controversy around his wedding to JLo, this is Ben Affleck.
From his early successes to the latest controversy around his wedding to JLo, this is Ben Affleck.
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00:00I had some stuff work and some stuff didn't and I ran afoul of the press a little bit and became overexposed
00:04Causing me to kind of turn around and question like what do I want to do in this industry?
00:08How can I best express myself?
00:30The nice thing about about life is that no matter what's happening inevitably it changes so it always stays interesting
00:53For me seeing my dad was just he was drunk every day and that was just life
00:56I wish he had been sober during those formative years
00:59But what he's taught me is how important it is for me to be sober now during these formative years for my kids
01:17I'm Ben Affleck, and I'm in the Arctic test chamber for the United States Army
01:22Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Massachusetts
01:52I'm sorry ma'am. I was just escorting your fine young son home from school. There's there are some ruffians about
02:23I just said the man losing would suck and winning would be really scary
02:27Intro Music
02:49What's your first interview together? What does it feel like?
02:51You're finally doing this
02:53Laughter
02:55Pretty good evidently
02:57It feels like being stoned
03:28A low-grade anxiety that was there the whole time I was making it that didn't end until I got to post-production
03:33and I could kind of I had all the footage and I was in the editing room and I could just
03:37Relax a little bit and assemble it and try things and move around
03:57It was an actor jail for a couple of years. We've all done it. I did Batman and Robin trust me. I know
04:28I
04:33Really don't want my children to pay for my sins
04:37Or to be afraid for me, which is one of the hard parts of being the child of an alcoholic
04:57Outro Music