Ben Affleck | Career Arc

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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With ‘Triple Frontier’ now streaming on Netflix, we launch the first episode in a series of career retrospectives on Hollywood’s biggest stars. From ‘Good Will Hunting’ to ‘Gone Girl,’ ‘Armageddon’ to ‘The Town,’ ‘Justice League’ to the "Jenny From the Block" video, we identify Affleck’s breakthrough moments and peak performances before breaking down his latest movie. Hosts: Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, Rob Harvilla Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fantasy editor and chief of The Ringer and this is the big picture a conversation
0:09.6	show about our movie stars.
0:11.8	We're doing something a little bit different here on the big picture today.
0:14.7	Maybe something we'll be doing a lot more in the future.
0:16.9	We are analyzing the life career work, filmography of one of our favorite actors, a person who
0:24.0	has had a complicated, fascinating, long, deep and sort of weird career.
0:28.5	His name is Ben Affleck.
0:29.8	He's in a new movie called Triple Frontier, the Distreaming on Netflix at this very moment.
0:34.5	You can watch that and if you don't want to have Triple Frontier spoiled for you, maybe
0:37.2	go watch that before you listen to this.
0:39.2	Joining me today are two expert athleticologists, Rob Harvillis, staff writer at The Ringer and
0:44.5	Amanda Dobbins.
0:45.5	Guys, thanks for joining me.
0:47.0	Hi, Sean.
0:48.0	Thanks for having me.
0:49.6	Guys, we're going to do this in an interesting way.
0:51.6	We're going to do it in a sort of a tri-partite approach.
0:54.2	There's going to be the breakthrough moment of Affleck's career.
0:57.0	There's going to be the personal pinnacle and there's going to be the new thing.
1:00.7	Each one of us has chosen a breakthrough moment and a personal pinnacle and then we'll
1:03.4	talk a little bit about Triple Frontier.
1:06.1	Amanda, why don't you start us off with your first choice for breakthrough moment and maybe
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