Ben Affleck Says He ‘Competes’ with His Daughter over This Particular Ability Set

Ben Affleck is in competitors with one in all his children.

Whereas showing on Immediately on Tuesday, April 22, the actor, 52, shared that he and his daughter typically compete in a single ability set whereas at dwelling collectively. Affleck, who shares his children Samuel, 13, Seraphina, 16, and Violet, 19, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 53, mentioned all of it comes right down to this one language.

“My daughter is a scholar of Spanish and sometimes competes with me. She’ll inform me hers is best than mine, and I’m glad I had the prospect to be on nationwide tv and simply declare victory,” Affleck jokes.

“However she’ll be appalled, by the way in which. I’ll say, sure, I can converse a little bit of Spanish, and it’s a pleasant factor. I discovered it once I was youthful.”

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Earlier this month, Affleck shared that he is lastly getting some recognition from his son, Samuel, after the premiere of his most up-to-date movie.

Whereas talking with E! Information at The Accountant 2 premiere, the Gone Woman actor mentioned that he just lately obtained some “excessive reward” from his teenage son, who the actor mentioned is “shocked” his dad is aware of people who “he thinks are cool.”

“My son loves all people, however he’s shocked that I someway know individuals he thinks are cool,” Affleck instructed the outlet. “He’s like, ‘Why do these individuals need to hang around with my dad?’ Which can be a invaluable query, however I’m getting away with it.”

Forward of the premiere, Samuel watched The Accountant for the primary time to prepare for the sequel.

“He watched it and was like, ‘Dad, I feel it could be my favourite film of yours,’ ” Affleck shared. “That was excessive reward, which doesn’t come simple out of your children.” 

Though Samuel is a fan of The Accountant, he did not love one other one in all Affleck’s iconic movies.

In an interview with GQ, Affleck shared that whereas he liked doing the Batman films, he discovered that his iteration of the franchise may need been concentrating on a demographic that did not exist.

“I liked doing the Batman film,” he started. “By way of creatively, I actually assume that I like the concept and the ambition I had for it, which was of the type of older, damaged, broken Bruce Wayne. And it was one thing we actually went for within the first film.”

“However what occurred was it began to skew too outdated for an enormous a part of the viewers,” the dad of three mentioned. “Like even my very own son on the time was too scared to look at the film. And so once I noticed that, I used to be like, ‘Oh s—, we’ve got an issue.'”