While not everyone takes to being the butt of a joke, Ben Affleck admitted that he finds it amusing. “I got to a place where [the public perception] was so different from who I am that I just stopped reading and stopped caring,” the actor explained to the Los Angeles Times in 2022. “Even the ‘Sad Affleck’ meme — that was funny to me. I mean, there’s nobody who hasn’t felt that way at a junket.”
The actor-director is just worried about his three kids seeing them. “I think, ‘Oh, are they going to think their dad is fundamentally sad or they have to worry about me?’ That’s really tough,” he explained. Considering Affleck has had a very public battle with alcoholism (which is the tragic reason he dropped out of “The Batman”), it’s easy to see why he feels this way. Still, both he and his wife, Jennifer Lopez, maintain that he’s doing fine despite occasionally looking like he’d rather be anywhere but where the cameras happen to catch him.
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