21: Sad Affleck (with Ursula Lawrence)
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English - March 19, 2021 04:55 - 1 hour - 70.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsComedy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode contains spoilers for both films.
Comedy writer Ursula Lawrence (Drunk History, Adam Ruins Everything) joins the show from Madison, Wisconsin to discuss the last few years of the career of Ben Affleck.
Affleck has had quite the decade: after two big hits as a director with The Town and the Academy Award for Best Picture winning Argo, he announced he would be starring as Batman in a series of new DC films. From this point his personal life seemed to go into a tailspin: his marriage ended, the paparazzi covered his every vape break or DoorDash delivery, and he wound up going to rehab twice.
Ursula and I discuss two recent Affleck vehicles, both directed by Gavin O’Connor: 2016’s strange, overstuffed thriller The Accountant, and 2020’s understated alcoholism drama The Way Back.
Follow Ursula Lawrence on Twitter.
A review of The Accountant from the perspective of Tom Iland, an autistic person who is also a Certified Public Accountant!
“The Accountant is another example of Hollywood’s autism problem” by James Luxford, for Little White Lies, November 2016