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Sometimes a traumatic experience can help you become better.

This is what happened to Ben Affleck, if the actor himself is to be believed.

In an interview with

The Hollywood reporter

, the star spoke about how her personal and intimate life has affected her on-screen work and in particular her divorce from Jennifer Garner.

“Whether it's the fact of having lived enough years, of having known enough ups and downs, of having had children and of having divorced, of having lived through many different things, I am now at a point in my life where I have enough life experience to bring to a role what makes it really interesting to me.

I'm not good enough to invent it from scratch, ”he admitted.

His battle with alcohol on screen

In 2020, Ben Affleck won in

The Way Back

, where he played an alcoholic man who came back up the slope and tried to rebuild himself by becoming the coach of the basketball team at his former high school.

At the time, while the film was in pre-production, the actor himself had relapsed in his battle with alcohol, and he never concealed that it was his personal experience that allowed him to deliver a performance widely acclaimed by critics.

“Getting older and having more intense and meaningful personal experiences has made acting a lot more interesting for me and, in turn, has drawn me to the kind of films that are about people who have faults.

I didn't have to do any research for the "alcoholism" aspect of the film - it was already done, "he explained in the interview.

Now divorced but on good terms with his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, and recently separated from his partner Ana de Armas, Ben Affleck is in any case determined to focus on his family life.

"He takes care of himself and remains focused on his family," a source close to the star told ET Online, when it was announced that he had broken up with the actress from

Knives Out

.

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