I wanna thank my wife, who I don’t normally associate with Iran, but I want to thank you for working on our marriage for the last ten years. It’s work, it’s the best work. There’s no one else I’d rather work with. -Ben Affleck
(Source: santanafinn)
Affleck, went on to thank his family by saying, “My daughter wrote my name on my hand for luck. I don’t know how that works, but I guess it worked,” he said. “I want to thank my kids and I want to thank my wife, without whom I would not be anywhere, much less here.”
(Source: star-sarella)
Random.
“According to the Washington Post, the House GOP leadership played a short clip from the Ben Affleck movie ‘The Town’ to rally their caucus around Boehner’s debt plan.” [ThinkProgress]
I wonder how this decision was made…
Boehner Staff: You know that Boston movie with Ben Affleck?
Intern: Which Boston movie with Ben Affleck?
Staff: The recent one.
Intern: Yes?
Staff: We need to rally our conservative colleagues. I think a clip with Affleck’s authentic Bostonian accent, Jeremy Renner being badass and some sick beats will do the trick.
Intern: …
Ben Affleck could be joining The Great Gatsby
Moulin Rouge director Baz Lurhmann is taking his time prepping his adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby, but the film’s cast is coming along nicely.
With Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire already confirmed, the director’s now approached Ben Affleck for the novel adap.
Affleck is currently weighing up an offer to play Tom Buchanan, the husband of Daisy (Mulligan). Meanwhile, DiCaprio has bagged the titular Gatsby, and Maguire is narrator Nick Carraway.
