TV host blasts ‘rude’ Ben Affleck for being her worst guest ever
nypost.comliving apart from wife Jennifer Lopez and catching a stray from ex-wife Jennifer Garner in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” an Australian TV host called out the 51-year-old actor and said he’s “quite high up on the list” of her worst interview guests ever.Sarah Ferguson told the Sydney Morning Herald in an interview published Sunday that she didn’t appreciate Affleck’s attitude when he appeared on the news show “7.30” in March 2023.“He was just rude, not interested, going through the motions,” Ferguson said.The Post has reached out to Affleck’s rep for comment.Ferguson interviewed Affleck virtually last year for his movie “Air.” His co-star Chris Tucker also participated in the interview.Affleck, who starred in, directed and produced “Air,” had a puzzling answer to Ferguson’s question about how the film evolved into a story about Michael Jordan’s family.“It happened by my looking at the story and thinking initially, you know, knowing a little bit how these companies work, and knowing about, you know, knowing by instinct it wasn’t only white people who worked at this company who were relevant to the story,” he said.Affleck avoided looking at the camera for most of the interview.
While chatting with the Hollywood Reporter last year to promote “Air,” Affleck compared doing interviews to “land mines,” when he was asked why he isn’t on Instagram like Lopez, 55.“She thinks that because of experiences that I’ve had, I’ve become very guarded.
And she’s right. I view these things as land mines, where if you say one wrong thing, your career might be over,” said Affleck.“I had a really painful experience where I did an interview where I was really vulnerable, and the entire pickup was something that was not only not right, it was actually.
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