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    Ben Affleck Has 'Sober Liaison' While Working on Movie 'The Way Back'

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    The ‘Gone Girl’ actor is accompanied by a ‘sober liaison’ provided by rehab facility while working on his new movie to make sure he doesn’t fall back into his old habits.
    Mar 4, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Ben Affleck was accompanied by a “sober liaison” to and from the set of “The Way Back”.
    The film sees Ben star as ex basketball player Jack Cunningham, who has to battle his alcoholism and other demons when he’s asked to coach the basketball team at his former college.
    Ben has also struggled with a dependence on alcohol for much of his adult life, and began filming “The Way Back” while he was in rehab seeking help for his addiction.
    In order to ensure the 47-year-old actor didn’t stray from his sober journey, the rehab facility provided Ben with a sober liaison, as his co-star Will Ropp told People.com.
    “Everybody was very transparent from the beginning that he was in rehab at the beginning of the film,” he said. “He had to have a sober liaison that would bring him to set and that would bring him back from (the) set.”
    Revealing he found the making of the film “cathartic,” Ben added to the outlet, “The potential for a movie like this is to really inspire somebody, to move somebody. Sometimes you do movies, you go, ‘Okay, it’s a thriller. They’re thrilled. And then they go home and they’ve forgotten about it.’ My goal with this was to make something that would feel enduring and lasting.”
    “Not everybody is going to come in and think it’s great. But for those who do, and for those who may be moved by this, the idea that you can face hard things and get better, I’m really proud of that.”

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      Ben Affleck Credits 'The Way Back' for Briefly Making Him 'Cool' to Teen Daughter

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      The ex-husband of Jennifer Garner admits to spending hours looking up online slang so he could immerse himself in his role as a high school basketball coach for the sports drama film.
      Mar 3, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Ben Affleck briefly became “cool” while researching his role as a high school basketball coach in “The Way Back” after studying teen-speak online.
      The Oscar winner felt he needed to understand teens like his daughter to help him get into character and so he spent hours looking up slang so he could connect with his young co-stars.
      “It was a joy for me to work with all these young actors, to get back in touch with what it’s like to be in your late teens and 20s,” the actor explains.
      “I tried learning a lot of new slang and how to use Instagram filters. I briefly became kind of cool to my 14-year-old daughter, although that quickly faded.”
      Ben enjoyed being the old guy on set, adding, “They would ask questions like, ‘Hey, when you did that movie, what was it like?’ ‘Who’s an interesting director to work with?’ It was fun to hang out with them. They brought a certain newness and excitement to the work.”
      And director Gavin O’Connor was more than a little impressed with Ben’s performance, considering he didn’t grow up playing basketball.
      “He wasn’t in locker rooms and he didn’t coach,” the filmmaker tells WENN. “We had to work to get him comfortable on the sidelines coaching a team. We spent a lot of time working in a gym with the kids, putting them into situations where Ben was just coaching, coaching, coaching – pacing the sidelines, yelling at referees, getting kids in and out and just leading the team.”

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