Art imitated life in more ways than one at the premiere of Warner Bros.’ sports drama “The Way Back,” held Sunday afternoon at the Regal LA Live downtown. “One of those weird parallel things happened in this movie,” said Ben Affleck, who stars as a high school basketball coach struggling with the death of his child, the demise of his marriage and binge-drinking habits. “In the story, the coach gets more from the players than the players get from him ultimately.
I feel that way about the young men who play those players.” But the similarities on everyone else’s mind is the newly sober Oscar winner’s portrayal of a character in active alcoholism — a real-life role he has decades of experience embodying. “For me, it takes an emotional
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