If Ben isn’t considered one of your favourite superstar meme mills, you and I usually are not the identical. It’s fairly plain that Ben has ascended to true icon standing by way of a few of his viral moments, however it’s onerous to pinpoint simply why he’s so relatable. Now, in a current interview with GQ, Ben took the time to look again on a few of his moments within the public eye and mirror on why he’s the “object” of loads of surveillance.
“I believe I don’t current in a really cautious method,” Ben mused. “So I’ll exit and choose up the packages or deliveries and I don’t actually care that individuals are there to take my image. And a few individuals are most likely, I suppose you’d name them smarter or extra strategic as a result of they assume, properly: ‘I don’t need to be seen sporting some T-shirt or spilling some drink.’ And I simply assume: ‘Oh fuck it, man, I may give a shit. I simply need to get the espresso.’”
If you happen to want a reminder, Ben’s referring to some coffee-related incidents that went mega-viral prior to now couple of years. Again in 2020, the web went nuts over footage of Ben unsuccessfully making an attempt to hold a slightly massive Dunkin’ Donuts order into his home. And truthfully, they went viral for good purpose — I take into consideration them each time I try to carry greater than two gadgets.
“So perhaps that’s part of it. As a result of individuals are accustomed to a extra introduced, curated picture. My life is definitely fairly drama-free,” he continued, earlier than explaining that the truth of his life would bore most folk. “I’m a middle-aged man,” Ben defined, speaking about how he works a “9-to-5” on the workplace of his manufacturing firm, Artists Fairness.
Ben then mirrored on the the explanation why he’s capable of converse so properly about being within the public eye a lot, and defined that he naturally analyzes his actions and spends time making an attempt to determine them out. “Naturally you go, like, ‘OK, perhaps I’ll simply put on the identical outfit each single day, so the images received’t be distinguishable,’” he stated. “Or perhaps: ‘I’ll simply appear to be a slob,’ and I’m like, nope – you then turn into the unhappy Affleck meme spilling the espresso. Which I’ve to say I believe is sort of humorous.”
I’m glad Ben finds the Unhappy Affleck meme humorous, as a result of it really may be considered one of my favourite moments of the 2010s. He has addressed the second a couple of instances earlier than (which, should you aren’t acquainted, refers to a 2016 press junket for Batman v. Superman, the place he seems significantly forlorn) and concluded that what folks considered him was in the end out of his management. “I acquired to a spot the place [the public perception] was so totally different from who I’m that I simply stopped studying and stopped caring,” he informed the LA Occasions in 2022.
And, hey, whereas we will all acknowledge that Ben is completely proper, and that he’s a lot greater than snapshots of him doing menial duties, I’m comfortable he can discover the humor in them. As a result of whether or not it’s exasperatedly smoking a cigarette or balancing a espresso on six packages, I’ll at all times really feel spiritually seen by Ben Affleck memes.
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