The latter, I’d like to forestall a little bit.” He says this sitting on the penthouse floor of Soho House, the same building where his production company, Artists Equity, is housed. We are talking about the last time we saw each other, when Affleck found himself, not for the first or last time, to be the subject of strange tabloid rumors, for reasons that made no sense to him then or now. This time around—the last week in September—things feel quieter, calmer, which is what Affleck is celebrating.
He’s had a strange and complicated year. In January, he starred in Netflix’s The Rip. In March, Affleck sold his AI company, Interpositive, for a reported $587 million.
This spring, he lost both of his parents. And now he is back in theaters as the star and director of Animals, about a Los Angeles mayoral candidate whose life and marriage are fundamentally changed by the abduction of a child. In this conversation, we talk about all of it.
And you realize, yeah, we only get so much time.” The following conversation is lightly edited and condensed from the latest episode of One More Question with Zach Baron. Watch below or on YouTube. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
GQ: The last time I saw you was two weeks after the LA fires and you were in a very intense tabloid moment. Maybe your house had burned down, or maybe it hadn’t. Maybe the FBI had raided your home.
Maybe I’m paying less attention this time around, but it feels like a quieter moment for you. Ben Affleck: I have them much less frequently now, which is nice, but there are still occasionally these strange flareups. At the time, there were both rumors that the FBI had raided my home and that my house had burned down.
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