The Tender Bar.”The Clooney-directed drama, which hits theaters Dec. 17 and Amazon Prime on Jan. 7, is largely set at a bar, where the main characters spend much of their screen time hanging out.
But the 60-year-old was anxious to shoot with Affleck, 49, in such a place due to his past struggles with alcoholism.In a new interview with The Times of London, Clooney said he was “worried” that the bar would be a triggering place for the “Argo” director as he is a “recovering alcoholic.”Affleck checked into rehab for the first time in 2001 and admitted last year in a New York Times interview that his drinking problems escalated during the end of his marriage to his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner.
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