If Ben isn’t one among your favourite celeb meme mills, you and I usually are not the identical. It’s fairly plain that Ben has ascended to true icon standing by means of a few of his viral moments, but it surely’s exhausting to pinpoint simply why he’s so relatable. Now, in a latest 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 feel I don’t current in a really cautious approach,” Ben mused. “So I’ll exit and choose up the packages or deliveries and I don’t actually care that persons are there to take my image. And a few persons are most likely, I assume you’d name them smarter or extra strategic as a result of they assume, effectively: ‘I don’t wish to be seen carrying some T-shirt or spilling some drink.’ And I simply assume: ‘Oh fuck it, man, I may give a shit. I simply wish to get the espresso.’”
If you happen to want a reminder, Ben’s referring to some coffee-related incidents that went mega-viral up to now couple of years. Again in 2020, the web went nuts over photos of Ben unsuccessfully making an attempt to hold a slightly giant Dunkin’ Donuts order into his home. And actually, they went viral for good purpose — I take into consideration them each time I try to carry greater than two objects.
“So possibly that’s part of it. As a result of persons are accustomed to a extra offered, curated picture. My life is definitely fairly drama-free,” he continued, earlier than explaining that the fact of his life would bore most people. “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 explanation why he’s in a position to communicate so effectively 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, possibly I’ll simply put on the identical outfit each single day, so the images received’t be distinguishable,’” he mentioned. “Or possibly: ‘I’ll simply appear to be a slob,’ and I’m like, nope – you then develop into the unhappy Affleck meme spilling the espresso. Which I’ve to say I feel is type of humorous.”
I’m glad Ben finds the Unhappy Affleck meme humorous, as a result of it actually could be one among my favourite moments of the 2010s. He has addressed the second just a few occasions earlier than (which, for those who aren’t acquainted, refers to a 2016 press junket for Batman v. Superman, the place he seems to be significantly forlorn) and concluded that what folks considered him was in the end out of his management. “I received to a spot the place [the public perception] was so completely different from who I’m that I simply stopped studying and stopped caring,” he advised the LA Instances in 2022.
And, hey, whereas we are able to all acknowledge that Ben is completely proper, and that he’s a lot greater than snapshots of him doing menial duties, I’m completely happy 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 all the time really feel spiritually seen by Ben Affleck memes.
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