Classes realized. Ben Affleck revealed how an early experience he had with marijuana impacted his conduct on the Dazed and Confused set.
In a brand new e-book titled Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, Affleck mirrored on his time making the 1993 flick in Austin, Texas. The Manner Again actor, 48, shared that he didn’t partake in the identical stage of drug and alcohol use as his costars.
“I had a nasty expertise with marijuana at 15. I had a dissociative panic attack,” Affleck, who performed Fred O’Bannion within the film at age 19, defined. “So, I solely smoked weed if everybody else was smoking, and I needed to kind of ‘Bill Clinton’ it and pretend it. I didn’t actually like marijuana.”
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The Oscar winner added, “I additionally wasn’t a really heavy drinker then. I turned an alcoholic a lot, a lot later, and I’m in restoration now, in order that was an entire completely different time. I used to be a bit nervous, like, ‘Ought to we be ingesting earlier than we’re working tomorrow?’ Some individuals have been really ingesting and getting stoned at work.”
As for the opposite shenanigans the forged received into, Affleck revealed that he adopted a Siberian Husky unbeknownst to the crew. He additionally shared that the forged would hit up the native capturing vary — an exercise he has since adopted a distinct perspective on.
“Texas had extraordinarily lax gun legal guidelines and most of us got here from states the place it was subsequent to inconceivable to purchase weapons,” he defined. “So, a part of the newfound freedom of being down there was {that a} bunch of us purchased weapons and went capturing at ranges on weekends, which appeared enjoyable and harmless on the time, however given the next tragedies with younger individuals and weapons, it now makes me uncomfortable to recollect.”
Written and directed by Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused adopted a gaggle of excessive schoolers in Austin celebrating their final day of college in 1976. Along with Affleck, the coming-of-age comedy starred the likes of Milla Jovovich, Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey and Adam Goldberg.
Practically 10 years after the long-lasting stoner movie’s launch, Affleck chose to get sober in 2001. Nevertheless, earlier this yr, he revealed on Good Morning America that he wanted to “just drink like a normal person” and did so for about eight years.
“I began to drink extra, and extra, and extra. And it was actually onerous for me to just accept that that meant that I used to be an alcoholic,” he stated in February. “I used to be like, ‘I may simply return. I used to be nice earlier than. You recognize, I simply have to take a break. I simply have to decelerate.’”
Affleck shares kids, Violet, 14, Seraphina, 11, and Samuel, 8, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner. He’s at present relationship Ana de Armas.
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