Ben Affleck doesn?t have fond memories of the time he broke up with Jennifer Lopez and his career took a nose dive. Speaking with Bill Simmons? on his new show Any Given Wednesday this week, Affleck opened up about that particular low point. He said, ?If you went by what people said, I wasn?t cool and I wasn?t talented, and I was the lowest rung of cool and talented that you could possibly be in the public consciousness at that time. I had broken up with Jennifer Lopez and I had, like, three or four movies in a row that had bombed.? Affleck recalled the last straw, though, when he was once the punch line in a United Airlines clip that comedian Robert Wuhl recorded. Affleck laughed, ?He did a whole bit about me that I saw on United Airlines and I thought, This is it, it really doesn?t get much worse than this. That was where I found myself when I thought, Hey, I want to take up directing, which is for people that are taken seriously. That became my mantra ? ?I?m just going to work harder than everybody else.'? The gambit paid off well. Affleck gained major cred with his first directorial effort, Gone Baby Gone, in 2007, followed by The Town and then his Best Picture winner, Argo, in 2012.
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