Since he became known in the 90s after writing and starring with his friend Matt Damon the film The indomitable Will Hunting, Ben Affleck A habitual character in the press has been. Especially from his courtship-orpture-reconcilation and subsequent divorce with Jennifer Lopez, which placed him in a position of constant persecution by the paparazzi, something that was remarkable although to a lesser extent during the months he was dating the actress Ana de Armas.
On this media pressure to which it has always been subjected and the relationship it maintains with fame since its inception in Hollywood has spoken the actor, producer and director as it passes through the podcast This Past Weekend With Theo von. At 52, the American has reflected on it and has taken the opportunity to do so on the siege that in this regard received another popular face of the 2000s such as Britney Spears.
“I felt a lot of empathy for Britney Spears. I remember that it is not someone that I knew or who came out but, like everyone else, I saw all that shit that came. For my own experiences, I knew that the paparazzi were chasing her when she was going through difficulties“Ben Affleck said at a time of the talk, referring to that constant harassment situation to which she underwent the singer of Baby One More Timewho lived in a fulminant way his rise and fall as the greatest adolescent idol in the history of music when he was barely 25 years old, was in full divorce process of his first husband and had two children.
“I know what it is to have people locking you, shouting, bothering you and following you. It seemed that the same was stirring the whole thing in a frenzy! The interpreter added, who compared that this type of constant attention by photographers is like “putting a stick” to someone and waiting for him to get angry. “Someone approaches and flirts or whatever it is activated, and that is when you think: ‘Well, this is not news, it is not even real. It is not what would be happening if this effect was not happening,'” added the interpreter of tapes like Air, Hypnotic either The Tender Bar.
