Ben Affleck says that producers "Armageddon" made him obtain $ 20,000 dental work
The actor says that Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer were "concentrated on aesthetics" making the 1998 film.
When Ben Affleck Played an oil driller sent to a space mission to prevent an asteroid from getting started with the earth in the 1998 blockbuster Armageddon , he had to change more than his Boston accent. In A Weekly entertainment interview with frequent friend and collaborator Matt Damon Last year, the actor revealed that he had a whole new smile to the match director Michael Bay Vision of the film, even if he played a blue collar hero. Read the rest to learn more about Bay's requests and other Affleck reflections on the scandalous action film.
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Affleck said Bay and Bruckheimer made him "be sexy".
Looking back at the start of his career in the EW Interview, the now 50 -year -old actor admitted to be "a little naive" on the weight placed on his image and his appearance. It turned out that Affleck had a lot of work to do to appease the bay and the producer Jerry Bruckheimer "Focus on aesthetics," he told the magazine. "You have to go to the tanning bed!" He remembered that they said to him, adding: "They made me repair my teeth and train and be sexy."
Bay said that Affleck was at the dentist for a solid week.
Bay shared the story himself more than two decades in the commentary for Armageddon DVD release of criteria collection. "We paid a set of $ 20,000 pearly white teeth , "Bay remembers, according to The Ringer, also revealing that Bruckheimer suggested the solution." I always liked the low blows that come a little under your chin and make you a little heroic and he had these baby teeth a little ... So I told Jerry Bruckheimer, "God, he has these teeth Baby, jerry, I don't know what to do! " Jerry used a very famous star in a plane film with which he replaced his teeth, so he said: "We did it, why not do it to Ben?" So my dentist had been sitting in a dentist's chair for a week, eight hours a day. ""
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It was not only his teeth who needed work.
Bay knew that the teeth alone do not draw the public in theaters, however. As Affleck also shared EW , "Michael had a vision of a male torso sparkling in oil, and he said to himself:" It will go in the trailer and sell tickets! "" And therefore in addition to tanning and pearly facets, the actor was sent to the gymnasium of the film, which he described as "a long version of one of these male naked breasts, in a garage, Wearing a tire, in a way greased ". AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
The strategy worked - the film finally reported Over $ 550 million worldwide . His commercial success, and perhaps the reasons around him, seem to have haunted Affleck in the years which, as evidenced by his famous (and hilarious) critical comments on the release of the criterion, in which he remembers ( via Nowsweek ), "I asked Michael why it was easier to train petroleum drivers to become astronauts than to train astronauts to become oil drills, and he told me to close the [Expletifs]."
"It's funny because it is the only film my children watched and they will all admit to love, even if they make fun tireless and me," said the actor to EW Last year. "" What did you drive a tank on the moon? "But they had fun, you know what I mean? They won't even look The city . So there you have it. ""
Affleck is not the only star Bay and Bruckheimer slipped.
In addition to this "very famous star" (which could be Tom Cruise ) in a certain "plane film" (which could be Bruckheimer's product Top gun ), Bay and Bruckheimer also forced other artists to suffer a makeover. Kate Beckinsale opened on the experience of filming their 2001 film Pearl Harbor Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Lily Mo Sheen . In 2019, she said Health of women This Bay asked him to lose weight And work for her role as nurse of the First World War. But she noted that she did not feel particularly targeted as a woman, because her male co-star had received a similar treatment. "Ben [Affleck], who had already made a film with the director, was like" it happened to me. They made me take new teeth ", she said. "And I said to myself:" Cool, at least I can hang on to my real teeth. ""
