Has anyone recently had more of a tumultuous acting career than Ben Affleck?

Edit: As pointed out, Gone Baby Gone (2007) was his directorial debut, not The Town.

I was thinking about this today, as Ben Affleck is getting shit on by Rose McGowan as part of the Harvey Weinstein fallout.

Affleck started his Hollywood career in a very promising manner, winning an Oscar for co-scripting Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. He had a pretty good late-90s/early 00s run in movies (Armageddon, Dogma, Changing Lanes), but then hit a bit of a snag during his relationship with Jennifer Lopez (Gigli, anyone?). He really was kind of in the dumps up until 2010 with The Town, his directorial debut. The film is fantastic, and really ushered in a new age for him in his career.

He followed up The Town with Argo, which won Best Picture. He was on Cloud 9, a king at Warner Bros, along with Clint Eastwood and Christopher Nolan (you think I’m joking…). He then starred in a few smaller titles until Gone Girl, which was a hit and he got positive recognition for his role. But 2016 was back to the doghouse, beginning with Batman V Superman. Affleck had a brief reprieve after winning praise for his role in The Accountant, but just months later was panned for his own Live By Night.

2017 hasn’t been kind to him, either, with all the rumors surrounding his tenure as Bruce Wayne in the Warner Bros DC Universe. Matt Reeves has taken over directing duties from Affleck for the upcoming standalone Batman movie, and it’s rumored that Affleck won’t even star in the film anymore. He also has been in and out of rehab, which has definitely hurt his public persona.

I understand that many actors have a rollercoaster trajectory in Hollywood (Matthew McConaughey or Robert Downey Jr., for example), but Ben Affleck’s has really seemed to be more extreme, with more crests and troughs than most.

Submitted October 10, 2017 at 04:08PM by gamecrazy2006 http://ift.tt/2zekJa7