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Ben Affleck is still pissed he was FORCED to be “sexy” for his role in ‘Armageddon’

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (20150)
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“They made me fix my teeth and work out and be sexy. Be sexy, how do I do that? ‘Go to the gym!’ Running in the gym and putting oil on my body and stuff, and it just turned out to be a long-form version of one of those male topless calendars, in a garage, carrying a tire, kind of greased up. Michael had a vision of a glistening male torso in the oil, and he was like, ‘That’s going to go in the trailer and sell tickets!’ And you know, what can you say? We could have made, I think, 400 ‘Chasing Amys’ for what we made ‘Armageddon’ for.”

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[–] AmeriGirl26 (14413) 3 years ago

Wow, what an ungrateful little shit. That movie got him millions of dollars and tons of work! He was considered a teenage heartthrob for years, and yet all he can do is complain about how he was forced to look attractive? Small wonder he's let himself go and sleeps around these days.

[–] novicepq (10) 3 years ago

Did you actually listen to that Entertainment Weekly interview? He was very lightheartedly teasing. And then all of sudden the narrative changed when it got posted to some gossip forums with the poster's own editorial bias, it seems.
And I am sure both the producer and the director have been OK with Ben's teasing, seeing he already had teased them some 20 years earlier in that Criterion Collection commentary. Besides, the producer admitted himself in a GQ profile in 2011 when he talked about it with the director when they were promoting Transformers' franchise.

[–] acidraindrop (3055) 3 years ago

This is why I find it foolhardy to react to a lot of these articles. They're often taken out of context, and no one bothers to actually check the source.