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Of all the great years Ben Affleck has had, he probably wouldn’t count 2016 among them – his split from wife Jennifer Garner has been publicly dissected non-stop since they announced plans to divorce last year, and his much-hyped film Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice was critically panned.
It seemed the actor and director might be feeling the strain of it all during an interview on US program Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons this week, in which he appeared to slur his words occasionally and dropped the f-bomb at least 16 times.
The 43-year-old began an expletive-laden rant when Simmons asked him about ‘Deflategate’, the nickname given to the NFL ball-tampering scandal that saw Patriots star player Tom Brady sidelined for four games for his alleged involvement.
“Deflategate is the ultimate bullsh*t f*cking outrage of sports ever. It’s so f*cking stupid that I can’t believe [it],” he spat, going on to share his opinion for several minutes.
The Gone Baby Gone director was also surprisingly candid about hitting rock-bottom after his split from fiancée Jennifer Lopez in 2004, saying he became a “punchline”.
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“I was the lowest rung of cool and talented that you could possibly be in the public consciousness,” he admitted. “I had broken up with Jennifer Lopez and I had three or four movies in a row that bombed.”
“I was so uncool, I was literally punchline in [comedian Robert Wuhl’s] straight-to-United Airlines video stand-up bit,” he continued.
“That guy had to look around and go, ‘Who’s below me, that I can sh*t on?’ And he picked me.”
“He did a whole bit about me that I saw on United Airlines once, and I was like, ‘Well this it! It really doesn’t get much worse than this,'” he continued. “And that was kind of where I found myself when I thought, ‘Hey, I want to take up directing.'”
He went on to have success as a director with Oscar-nominated film The Town and even winning an Academy Award for Argo, proving that once you hit rock-bottom, the only way is up – as long as you don’t make strange TV interviews a regular occurrence.
