Ben Affleck
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 21 Jan
Ben Affleck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So the look on your face is kind of like, and then they go away, not taking the picture. You go inside and you're having a good time. But it's this selective experience of like take a picture of somebody every time they're feeling irritated. They're going to look irritated.
Yeah. It's like, I'll come piss you off and then take your picture and then put, and then be like, look, I pissed off.
Right. But, and it's like useful. Cause that's why like, you know, I'm sure you've seen on all this stuff, like the, you know, that's kind of the idea is like, follow somebody around antagonize them. And then hopefully they'll have like a nervous breakdown and go crazy on you. And then your video be worth more money, you know?
Like I can remember a long time ago, you know, years and years ago, like I really had a lot of empathy for Britney Spears because I remember that it seemed like it's not somebody that I I knew or hung out with. But I just like everybody else. You see all this shit that comes through. And I but having had my own experience myself, I knew like these are people are following her around.
in a time where she may or may not have been having difficulty. I don't know. Cause I don't know her, but I do know that the, the cycle of having people harangue you and yell at you and hassle you and follow you. It kind of seemed like that itself was kind of whipping up the whole thing into a tizzy. So it's, It's like they're not helping. Well, yeah. And they're kind of poking a stick at it.
Look, look at it. That's where it felt kind of like that's the first time I thought this is kind of a weird kind of unintentional, I think, culturally, but kind of collective cruelty where. What's taken out of the image that you see are the people around waving the stick at the tiger or poking on it or whatever. And all you see is the growling animal or whatever it is.
But a part of that is because somebody's coming around and hitting on it or whatever to make it get active. And that's where you think, OK, well, this isn't really news. It's not even real. It's not what would be happening if this effect wasn't taking place. Yeah.
And that's where I thought, OK, you know, the sort of wise thing to do is to just sort of like maintain one's perspective and try to remove yourself a little bit. It doesn't which is what I would like to do. I think there's this sense that that like if you see someone's picture all the time, they must want you to be seeing. Right. Right. Which is not the case at all for me. I'm self-conscious.
I don't really want you to be seeing that at all. any reason for it as an actor it's no good for you because I don't really want people if they watch a movie to be like that's not him because I saw him yesterday at lunch and I know he's who he really is it gets in the way of you being able to create like the illusion it's
Really hard work to create the illusion that this person, like the character in The Accountant 2, for example, is a real person in a real circumstance. And in order to get the audience to care about it, to laugh, to find it exciting and empathize with the character, they have to suspend disbelief. That's harder if you're constantly being shown something else. So I think it gets in the way.
It makes it harder to be an actor. And it's also just – It's also not good for you. People start to resent you if they see you too much, no matter whether or not you're trying to be seen. You go, no, no, I don't want to do this. And nonetheless, like I remember 20 years ago going through an experience where I was like, it feels to the world like I'm trying to shove myself in their face. Ah.
And nobody likes that, right? Nobody wants to be the camera hog, the guy who's trying to get a bunch of attention.
And I'm like, man, you can just leave me alone, and I would be much happier. So in a way, it also can damage your career. Although I think it's – I don't pretend to understand the nuances of social media and how to manage that as a celebrity, so I don't do it. Some people do it really well. And I think there is a difference now because, like –
It's like if you have 100 million followers, that's actually valuable and meaningful in a different way. I still, I'm kind of old school, I guess, in a way of seeing.
I'm middle school. Yes, exactly. I am a seventh grader.
going to say that is that when I was a kid I kind of thought Harrison Ford was that guy you know what I mean like that's what Harrison Ford I think he's probably the biggest you know movie star of my childhood and whether it was like you know Indian Jones or Star Wars like he was the guy and I kind of thought he was that guy and so it's a little weird to see that guy just like
you know, in his sneakers and his kind of raincoat walking around Brentwood. It's sort of like, of course it's disappointing or it's disillusioning or something.
Cause you, you have this thing in your mind that's people went to a, you know, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas went to a whole, you know, use all their talent, went to a bunch of work to make this dude look like Indiana Jones and Han Solo. And I think what I've seen now is like I actually don't even want to see the actors that I really like.
I don't want to go on your social because I don't want to know what you had for lunch because it just makes it harder for me to get into like, you know, what you're doing.
It's Hollywood sort of adjacent, which is this side of media culture that –
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