Ben Affleck is a two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker, and an actor who has portrayed some fantastic characters. But before all that, he got his start in bit parts in the background of movies like Field of Dreams and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The latter role was the actor’s first speaking part in the role of “Basketball Player #10,” but as it turns out, the actor’s one line wasn’t exactly award-worthy, to say the least.
Affleck was recently asked by James Corden if he had ever been fired from a role before, to which the actor responded that he was often fired from projects as a teen due to his unfortunate “tardiness problem.” Affleck learned his lesson, but he did mention a time when his lines were cut from a movie, even though he thought he had delivered an amazing performance.
The actor was 20 when he scored one of his first movie roles as “Basketball Player #10” in 1992’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the movie that inspired the TV show. “I got one line … it was for a basketball player,” he told Corden. His character was supposed to offer the ball to a werewolf that happened to be running through the gym. He explained:
“I was feeling it. I felt authentically afraid. And then I went and saw the movie with friends … and I sounded very different. And I realized right then they re-recorded my line. I was so bad. They needed me to be in the scene, but the director [Fran Rubel Kuzui] obviously [was like], ‘I can’t hear the voice again!’ They had to pay someone to come in and say, ‘Hey man, take it.’ Because apparently, I couldn’t say that convincingly enough.”
Well, he obviously took some acting classes since then, and has certainly improved! It’s fun to hear about his humble beginnings, though. Affleck’s latest film, Air, is currently in theaters.
via: Uproxx