Recently, Ben Affleck became the cover of the fashion magazine WSJ to promote his upcoming December 17 film, Gentle Bar, a heartwarming literary film for this year's Christmas season that tells a touching story.
This time, the new film "Gentle Bar" is a work by Ben Affleck who returns to the field of literary film, telling the story of warm family affection, a teenage father who is drunk and lacks fatherly love, and his uncle is his mentor and friend, who answers the confusion in his heart under the guidance of his uncle.
Ben Affleck plays the role of uncle in it.
In fact, from the script alone, this movie is really not like the usual film genre that Ben Affleck can play, in the past he acted in commercial films with a strong commercial atmosphere, but now he has begun to warm up the literary arts, which is really surprising for a while.
However, Ben said that the film was mainly made because of emotion, because his father was a bartender who had struggled with alcoholism, and he often did not see his father when he was growing up, so he thought the script of the film was very attractive to him, adding: "I think in many scenes, I am talking to my young self. ”
Ben Affleck, 49, who has a changed temperament after nearly 30 years of working in Hollywood, said that he thought a lot after the divorce, and in the past he always felt that commercial films were his lifelong pursuit, so he would accept all commercial film offers, hoping to fight for his career, focusing on his career, and even shooting some works with less good scripts.
In the past four years, he has experienced a series of things such as divorce, and realized that work is not the only thing, people do not need to pursue financial interests forever, the most important thing is to be a good father, and as an actor, the more important thing is to shoot some literary and profound works in order to contribute to society.
Ben Affleck also admits that his worldview has changed, and he may not make purely commercial films in the future, and films like Batman will no longer exist in his life.
In fact, these years have been very serious about Ben Affleck, he has soared to more than two hundred pounds due to alcoholism, and even ruined his marriage because of alcoholism, and the marriage ended in divorce.
After that, he entered the alcohol rehab center and lost more than forty pounds in an instant.
When he was married, people said he was boring, and when he got divorced, people said he was a terrible person.
When he was weight-pounding, people called him fat and laughed at his stature online, and when he lost more than forty pounds, people started saying he had health problems.
His life is always being questioned and attacked, and people will never let him go, so he decided to live his own life, make his own movies, be his father, and ignore the gossip of the outside world.
In 2021, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez reunited, regaining the love of that year and living a new life.