Ben Affleck sat down with “Good Morning America” to open up about how his own struggles with alcoholism informed his role in the new George Clooney-directed drama “The Tender Bar”.
In the film, Affleck plays Uncle Charlie, a tavern owner who becomes a father figure to his nephew JR in the absence of his father, a hard-drinking radio deejay.
Speaking with “GMA”, Affleck addressed the film’s theme of breaking the familial cycle of addiction. “We all want to pass on the best of ourselves to our children, I don’t care who you are, I’m quite sure you feel at some point in your life you’ve taken missteps, nobody wants to transfer that to our children and that is a real task that everybody faces whatever those issues are,” he explained. READ
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