The Curious Case of Ben Affleck’s Post-Oscar Career

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Amid rumors he won’t play Batman much longer, Ben Affleck seems a long way from the Oscar-winning director of Argo he was just five years ago. How did that happen, and what on earth is going on with Batman, anyway?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair and
0:16.8	Panoply. I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of vanityfair.com and I'm here today
0:20.9	with the entire crew. We have our digital director Mike Kogan.
0:24.0	Hello. Our film critic Richard Lawson.
0:26.0	Hello. And our senior writer Joanna Robinson.
0:29.0	Hi Katie.
0:30.0	So it's a funny period in the summer where there's not really a lot coming out right now that is, you know, likely to be awards contender.
0:37.5	The Emmy nominations are already out.
0:38.7	Dunkirk is in theaters.
0:39.8	We can talk about the awards prospects of the emoji movie, but you don't know what I know has seen it so it just seems unfair
0:46.0	But interestingly enough there is like a lot of stuff on the horizon so without a new release this week to kind of eye
0:52.1	We're gonna look ahead a little bit and then talk
0:54.7	about some broader topics in the news right now. But to start with, Richard, you
1:00.0	have seen two recent and sort of close upcoming movies that seem pretty
1:04.7	interesting and you have reviews of both of them on VF.com now. So tell us
1:08.6	about I guess Logan Lucky first and then Detroit. Yeah Logan Lucky is the new movie from Stephen Soderberg, who had sworn he was done with
1:16.2	feature film directing.
1:17.2	No, he was not making movies anymore.
1:19.2	He's back.
1:20.2	No one ever keeps those promises.
1:21.4	I just, it's like, it's not not fair it's just a fake way to get
1:24.2	it's why when everyone was freaking out about Daniel Day Lewis it was like all right he
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