Ben Affleck turns 50: from winning two Oscars to sleeping on his honeymoon

Benjamin Géza “Ben” Affleck-Boldt turns fifty this Monday August 15th. Many laugh at him. They don’t like what his Batman was like – George Clooney’s was certainly not much better – they see the photos in which he fell asleep on his honeymoon, walking on one of the boats that go down the Seine, in Paris, and they make memes.

But Affleck has somewhere in one of his villas two Oscars, one as a producer of argonand another for the original script of in search of destinywho wrote with his friend Matt Damon. And he has won 71 other awards for his work of him in film or on television.

WELL, Among these awards are 4 Raids, highlighting the very worst. She has two for the worst actor, one for the worst couple (with Jennifer Lopezfrom Lilies), and one who redeems it (for winning the Oscar for Best Picture with argon).

We see that to say yes he only likes women named Jennifer. He has been married to Jennifer Garner for 13 years and has three children. Among his partners is Gwyneth Paltrow, who after three years of coming and going (they worked together in Passionate Shakespearean) and Ana de Armas. After the breakup with the Cuban, we already know who he returned with and who he married: Jennifer Lopez.

Ben doesn’t know Tinder, nor should he go out much, because he met his most established partners while working. resumed Lilies met Jennifer Lopez; while rolling Reckless, to Jennifer Garner; We have already talked about Gwyneth Paltrow. With Lindsay Shookus (his he partner from 2017 to 2019) he joined as a guest presenter of Live Saturday nightwhere she was a producer.

The one with oral sex

and during filming Deep waters (the one with fellatio) started dating Ana de Armas. The couple separated because they didn’t want to move to Los Angeles, where Affleck’s three children live. But now Ben is selling his mansion in Pacific Palisades, which also has a movie theater, for $ 30 million.

He had a relationship with Lopez from 2002 (when he broke up with Paltrow) to 2004, and after 17 years since they resumed the romance last year, until the closing of this edition.

After resting in the little boat on the Seine, Affleck will set to work hard to complete his new directorial project, which reunites him with Matt Damon. Both star in a film, for now untitled (which they had already shot) about the story of Sonny Vaccaro (Damon), the businessman who changed the world of sport, when he managed to convince a very young Michael Jordan to sign his contract with Nike and the famous Air Jordan sneakers were produced.

The son of a school teacher and a social worker, Ben has wanted to be an actor for as long as he can remember. His first job was in a Burger King commercial. To follow, ten curiosities about the life of the man who is usually a better director than an actor.

• As a child I wanted to have a dog as a pet. Her mother tested him: if she had walked an imaginary dog ​​for a week, she would have had him. On the fifth day he got tired of the game and was left without a dog.

• As a teenager he lived in Mexico, where he learned to speak Spanish.

• Daredevil, the Marvel comic book character, was her teenage hero. Unfortunately, he got to play him in the 2003 film.

• Furthermore Recklessis the only actor who wore the Batman and Superman costume (in Hollywoodlandiarole for which he won the Volpi Cup as best actor at the Venice Film Festival) in two different films.

• You may have noticed that if he can, he shoots his own films in his hometown of Boston.

• His best friend is Matt Damon. She met him as a teenager, they played sports together in the minor leagues and took acting lessons. They had the same bank account in common.

• He lived in an apartment with his brother Casey and his friend Matt and, tired of being turned down for big roles and having forgettable supporting roles like Damon did, they decided to write their own screenplay. It was that of in search of destiny (1997), for which they charged … US $ 600.00.

• He is a skilled poker player. He has participated in championships and has won a lot of money. Perhaps this is why he has a lifetime ban on playing blackjack at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas, due to his ability to count cards.

• He auditioned, but he didn’t stay for the first time he shoutedand lowered his thumb to Four brothers, because it looked ultraviolent (Mark Wahlberg kept his role). he was considered the leader Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakensand first, Superman’s man of Steelwhich was made by Zack Snyder.

• He was the first director to win every major pre-Oscar award (Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics Choice and Directors Guild Award) for Best Director, and he didn’t even get an Oscar nomination for director, for argon (2012).