With regards to roasting, Ben Affleck will get the triple frontier.
The actor’s three children Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13, whom he shares with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, can’t assist however tease their well-known dad about his work in Hollywood.
Affleck, 52, joked about his critics after attending the premiere of his newest motion/thriller, “The Accountant 2,” with them.
“I was excited that they wanted to come see it, but my kids, they’re like very tough and they don’t censor their criticism,” the star recounted whereas on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Wednesday.
“I mean, they’ll sit right next to me watching a movie and while it’s happening [and they say], ‘This is terrible. This is terrible! Why did you do this?’”
Affleck added, “Like, you could wait till it ended, you know what I mean?”
“The kids liked it though?” host Jimmy Kimmel, 57, requested.
“They did!” Affleck replied. “At first, it was one of those things where they looked at me like you thought I was looking at you, like what’s the catch? I was like, ‘You really liked it?’ They were like, ‘yeah, it was good!’ And they were shocked, like I got lucky, like this magical accident happened and something I did was OK.”
“The Flash” star then recalled the time he had a film night time together with his children throughout COVID.
“During COVID, all the kids were in the house and I was like, ‘Hey, let’s watch a movie.’ I thought maybe the kids will like ‘Armageddon,’” Affleck shared. “[But] almost immediately, it was like, ‘What? What is this? This is so stupid. Are you kidding me?’”
“My son was like, ‘This doesn’t make sense.’ I was like, ‘This is not a logic-based film! That is not one of the criteria we used making this!’”
The 1998 Michael Bay-directed drama additionally stars Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler and Billy Bob Thornton, and tells the story of misfits being recruited by NASA to assist after an asteroid the scale of Texas is found.
Through the “Accountant 2” pink carpet premiere, Affleck made a uncommon remark about his ex-wife Jennifer Lopez, whom he was married to for 2 years from 2022 to 2024.
The actor advised Leisure Tonight that Lopez’s two youngsters have been additionally there to assist his newest venture.
The singer, 55, shares twins Emme and Max, 17, with ex-husband Marc Anthony.
“The kids are here, Jen’s kids are here. I’m very, very excited,” Affleck gushed. “I love when all the kids come out.”
He additionally clarified that the pair are on good phrases regardless of their break up.
“I don’t read the stuff online much, and sometimes I get the sense that people perpetuate the idea of … they wanna find something negative to talk about,” Affleck said.
“For the record, Jennifer Lopez is spectacular, great to my kids, great ongoing relationship with them,” continued the “Daredevil” actor. “I love her kids. They’re wonderful. She’s [an] enormously important, tremendous person of a lot of integrity who I adore and am grateful to.”
“I’m thrilled that the kids are here with me. The relationships that you can have with children like that, it’s the joy of my life. And those kids are amazing, and I’m glad that this is a movie they want to come to.”
After the ET reporter praised Affleck for being “a really good dad,” he replied, “I try my best.”
Affleck and Lopez tied the knot in July 2022, twenty years after calling off their first engagement.
By August 2024, the musician filed for divorce and the pair finalized their paperwork in January.
Lopez spoke about their break up in October, telling Interview Journal she has no regrets about their relationship.
“That doesn’t mean it didn’t almost take me out for good. It almost did,” she expressed. “But now, on the other side of it, I think to myself, ‘F – – k, that is exactly what I needed. Thank you, god. I’m sorry it took me so long. I’m sorry that you had to do this to me so many times.’”
