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During Deadline’s Contenders Film panel for Warner Bros’ The Way Back, Ben Affleck addressed just how close to his own life the role of alcoholic basketball coach Jack Cunningham actually comes.

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How Ben Affleck Used His Own Experience to Portray an Alcoholic in ‘The Way Back’

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefIn “The Way Back,” Ben Affleck received some of the strongest acting reviews of his career for playing Jack Cunningham, a high school basketball coach who struggles with alcoholism. It was a part that hit close to home for Affleck, who is now sober.“With a role like that, I am an alcoholic, so I understood to a certain extent the alcoholism,” Affleck says in a conversation with Sacha Baron Cohen for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios.

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Jennifer Garner Urged ‘The Way Back’s Director To Not Give Up On Ben Affleck After Relapse

Jennifer Garner, 47, made sure Ben Affleck, 47, kept his role as Jack Cunningham, a former basketball all-star struggling with addiction, in the new film The Way Back when he relapsed in 2018, and she did so by going straight to the film’s director, Gavin O’Connor. Gavin, 55, sat down for an interview with 34th Street Magazine and talked about how the actor’s former wife directly asked him to not “pull the plug” on the film because Ben loved it so much.

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'The Way Back' review: Affleck film lacks rawness

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – In “The Way Back,” Ben Affleck, sombre and looming, with a no-frills conviction he hasn’t shown as an actor in quite some time, plays Jack Cunningham, a former high-school basketball superstar who never made it big and has fallen on hard times.

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Ben Affleck accompanied to and from 'The Way Back' set by 'sober liaison'

Ben Affleck was accompanied by a “sober liaison” to and from the set of The Way Back.

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Ben Affleck accompanied to The Way Back set by ‘sober liaison’

Ben Affleck was accompanied by a “sober liaison” to and from the set of The Way Back.

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