Ben Affleck is not always angry, although it may seem that way from his paparazzi photos. In fact, what is hidden behind his serious face is shyness.
“I'm also a little shy,” the 51-year-old father told Kevin Hart in episode one of season four of From heart to heart. “I also don't like people paying a lot of attention to me. That's why people see me and say, 'Why is this guy always angry?' Because someone has his camera and puts it in my face and I say, 'Okay, here we go.'”
Affleck, who has starred in several blockbuster films such as Hypnotic and Girl is goneRecently, he made headlines about his marriage to Jennifer Lopez. Rumors have been circulating for weeks about her possible divorce, especially after Lopez's 2024 summer tour, “THIS IS ME… LIVE,” was suddenly canceled for personal reasons. According to the Live Nation announcement obtained by VarietyLópez decided to cancel the national concert series to take “some time off to be with his children, family and close friends.”
What's more, Affleck and Lopez are reportedly trying to sell their $61 million home in Beverly Hills, according to a June 13 report. People.
The A-list couple first explored a romance between them in 2002. Two years later, the duo called it quits. Then, in 2021, Affleck and Lopez rekindled their relationship and said “I do” about a year later.
He wedding planner The protagonist shares 16-year-old twins Max and Emme with her ex-husband Marc Anthony. Affleck welcomed Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, to whom he was married from 2005 to 2018.
With five children to care for, Affleck has become protective of them when it comes to the public, another reason he's not always willing to have his photo taken when he's out with them.
“Also, because I'm with my kids and they're taking photos of me,” Affleck explained to Hart during his Peacock show. “Actually, what I would like to do is much more definitive than just looking at you like that.”
“I don't care, you can take a picture of me in a club or at a premiere, with my wife, I don't give a damn,” he continued. “Knock yourself unconscious. I don't notice you. But with my children that is different.”
Interestingly, Affleck's children also pick it up at home because of his confusing facial expressions. The screen favorite admitted that his children often wonder if something is bothering him because the emotion on his face seems like it is.
He said: “By the way, I could also be someone who finds myself sitting at home and they say, 'What's wrong?' 'Nothing. Nothing is wrong.'”
Still, he doesn't like the general perception the public seems to have of him based on individual photographs taken at random.
“People are projecting onto me something that I don't feel at all about myself,” Affleck proclaimed.
