The life of Ben Affleck

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At 25, he became the youngest screenwriter to win an Oscar. Today, he's one of Hollywood's biggest names — and one of the internet's favorite memes.   From his early successes to the latest controversy around his wedding to JLo, this is Ben Affleck.

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00:00I had some stuff work and some stuff didn't and I ran afoul of the press a little bit and became overexposed

00:04Causing me to kind of turn around and question like what do I want to do in this industry?

00:08How can I best express myself?

00:30The nice thing about about life is that no matter what's happening inevitably it changes so it always stays interesting

00:53For me seeing my dad was just he was drunk every day and that was just life

00:56I wish he had been sober during those formative years

00:59But what he's taught me is how important it is for me to be sober now during these formative years for my kids

01:17I'm Ben Affleck, and I'm in the Arctic test chamber for the United States Army

01:22Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Massachusetts

01:52I'm sorry ma'am. I was just escorting your fine young son home from school. There's there are some ruffians about

02:23I just said the man losing would suck and winning would be really scary

02:27Intro Music

02:49What's your first interview together? What does it feel like?

02:51You're finally doing this

02:53Laughter

02:55Pretty good evidently

02:57It feels like being stoned

03:28A low-grade anxiety that was there the whole time I was making it that didn't end until I got to post-production

03:33and I could kind of I had all the footage and I was in the editing room and I could just

03:37Relax a little bit and assemble it and try things and move around

03:57It was an actor jail for a couple of years. We've all done it. I did Batman and Robin trust me. I know

04:28I

04:33Really don't want my children to pay for my sins

04:37Or to be afraid for me, which is one of the hard parts of being the child of an alcoholic

04:57Outro Music

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