Ben Affleck
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Did Benny write that?
Did you work on that scene with him?
He goes, no, we actually worked on it together.
And I go, well, how did that scene come to be?
And Dwayne goes...
Well, my father was an alcoholic, and I don't remember if he said substance abuser or alcoholic, but I didn't know the man.
I don't want to impugn him, but he had a substance issue, whatever it was.
He goes, and when he would talk to me, that's how he โ
would defend himself.
It was almost a bargaining thing, because there's this thing when this guy comes to him, he's overdosed, and Dwayne's amazing in this scene.
He's going like, he's going like, yeah, isn't it crazy?
And then I woke up and thought, I mean, I could hear him, but I couldn't really hear him.
And you see him, and he's kind of tap dancing, and his friend finally kind of holds his feet to the fire.
And at that moment, Dwayne
literally starts to burst into tears and just pulls the hospital sheet up over his head and it's like and it's and it's i mean it's just it was i'm not doing it justice if you haven't i mean i know i know you've seen it yeah but um he said yeah so he explains that about his father and then he goes
And when my mom was diagnosed with stage three lung cancer, I was with her when the oncologist came in and she was lying in the hospital bed.
And when he gave her the news, she pulled the sheet up over her head.
And I looked at her and she just looked like a little kid, you know?
And I was like, all right.
Like, so that, right, is two traumatic events from this guy's life, right?