“How do I manage to be sexy?” He would have wondered. Ben Affleck returned, during an interview with Matt Damon, his lifelong friend, on the changes he had to make before the filming of
Armageddon
(1998), by Michael Bay. Requests the 49-year-old actor didn't anticipate when he signed on for the role of AJ Frost, an oil driller preparing for a mission to space.
"I was a little naive about the way people saw me," said the comedian in the columns of the February edition of
Entertainment Weekly
. I hadn't expected that Michael (
Bay, NDLR
) and Jerry (
Bruckheimer, the producer of the film, NDLR
) focus on our appearance and tell us: “You have to do UV sessions!” »The beginning of a series of very specific recommendations.
In video, Jennifer Lopez dances alongside Ben Affleck to the tunes of "Jenny from the Block"
"I had to put oil on my body"
Ben Affleck plays an oil driller who prepares for a mission in space, in "Armageddon" (1998).
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“They asked me to fix my tooth, to play sports and to be sexy,” recalled Ben Affleck.
Before adding: "I had to go to the gym, put oil on my body, and I ended up looking like the movie version of a calendar mannequin, posing topless in a garage, a tire under his arm, covered with grease. "
According to the forties, Michael Bay would have said that his physique, as exposed in the trailer, would "sell movie tickets".
The in love photos of JLo and Ben Affleck
The in love photos of JLo and Ben Affleck
A photo posted by JLo, of a kiss exchanged on a yacht, serving as an official announcement.
(Posted July 24, 2021.)
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The in love photos of JLo and Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez arrive at the 78th Venice Film Festival.
(Italy, September 9, 2021.)
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The in love photos of JLo and Ben Affleck
Their first official appearance as a couple, at the 78th Venice Film Festival.
(Italy, Friday September 10.)
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The in love photos of JLo and Ben Affleck
The couple walk the red carpet with hearts in their eyes.
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The in love photos of JLo and Ben Affleck
The in love photos of JLo and Ben Affleck
The in love photos of JLo and Ben Affleck
The in love photos of JLo and Ben Affleck
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"What could I say? (...), commented Ben Affleck. It's funny, because it's the only movie I made that my kids watched. They all admitted that they loved him, even though they kept laughing at him ... and me. " Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 9, are said to have said to him: "What are you doing, you driving a tank on the moon?" “But they loved watching the movie,” he added. They don't even want to see
The Town
(a movie about a gangster directed and played by Ben Affleck in 2010, Editor's note).
It is to say. " And the actor's children are not the only ones to have voted for
Armageddon
. In 1998, the feature film, which also starred Bruce Willis and Liv Tyler, s'imposed as the most profitable of the year.
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