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Ben Affleck's kids are his toughest movie critics.
The Argo actor appeared on the April 24 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and revealed how his children- Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13- whom he shares with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, really feel about his films.
"My kids, they’re like very tough, and they don’t censor their criticism. They’ll sit right next to me watching a movie and just, while it’s happening, ‘This is terrible. I mean, this is terrible! Why did you do this?’ Like, you can wait till it ended, you know what I mean, before."
Despite constantly roasting his productions, Affleck's children went to see his latest film, The Accountant 2, in theaters and enjoyed it!
"They liked it! At first, it was one of those things where they looked at me like you thought I was looking at you, which was like, ‘What’s the catch?' I was like, ‘What, you really liked it?’ And they were like, ‘Yeah, it was good.’ And they were shocked. You know what I mean? As if I got lucky. This magical accident happened, and something I did was okay."
The Jersey Girl star introduced them to 1998's Armageddon during the COVID19 pandemic, and they were less than impressed, especially Samuel.
"During COVID, all the kids were around the house, and I was like, ‘Hey, let’s watch a movie.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, maybe the kids will like Armageddon. Almost immediately, it was like, ‘What is this? This is so stupid. Are you kidding me?’ My son was like, ‘This doesn’t make sense.’ I said, ‘This is not a logic-based film. That is not one of the criteria we used making this."
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