Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner share three children. Their eldest, Violet, has often been spotted with her parents in public, and both Affleck and Garner have spoken highly about her. Affleck said he admires her sharp tongue, even when it is directed at him.
He shared why she doesn’t particularly like the career paths of her parents. Ben Affleck said his daughter is critical of the movies he’s made Following the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Affleck said he began to think differently about how to draw people to theaters when there were so many good television shows on at home. He admitted that conversations with his daughter led to this line of thinking.
“My daughter is 17. She lives her life largely in opposition to the work her parents have spent their lives dedicated to, where she’ll say things like, ‘I’m not sure film is really ..
. Do you think it’s a genuine art form?’” he told The Hollywood Reporter . “I like the fact that she has this silver rapier tongue.
” In a separate interview, he said that his daughter is critical of many elements of the films he made. “There are things where my daughter will be like, ‘This is ableist and disgusting,’ and okay. The way we see stuff has changed a little bit, or a lot in some cases,” he told Entertainment Weekly .
“And there are things that seemed they could work at the time and don’t in retrospect.” He said even the worst movies have taught him something While Affleck can unde.