Ben Affleck opened up about his son Samuel’s curiosity in sports activities betting and the way the exercise runs within the household’s DNA.
“My son requested me like a month in the past, [he] was like, ‘Hey, um, can I get like 100 bucks to guess on sports activities?’” Affleck shared throughout a Monday, January 5, look on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! “It’s like, what? [He’s like,] ‘My mates get $100, but when they lose it, then that’s it.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s an actual normal, what self-discipline! Like, so that you just don’t come twitching again going, ‘I do know that Inexperienced Bay goes to cowl the over within the second half.’”
The admission got here after the Batman actor, who shares youngsters Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 13, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, revealed his father was previously a bookie.
“My father labored at a bar however largely made his cash kind of being a small-time bookie,” Affleck, whose household moved to Massachusetts when he was 3, defined. “I keep in mind our first washer, our first VCR, in actual fact, Dad coming dwelling like, ‘You may thank Steve Grogan for this,’ the quarterback of the Patriots. ‘All people retains betting [on] the Patriots to beat the unfold.’ And so I actually was grateful that the Patriots had been horrible; simply thank Steve Grogan’s knees for our VCR.”
“On the time it was, like, shameful and sort of unlawful. I imply, the statute of limitations has run out. Sorry, Dad,” Affleck continued of sports activities betting, to which host Jimmy Kimmel responded, “It wasn’t sort of unlawful again then, it was flat-out unlawful. It was very unlawful. All people did it, however it was unlawful.”
Affleck then clarified his feedback, agreeing, “It was straight up unlawful. It was felony. However it was like a factor that you just needed to be apprehensive about, yeah.”
Kimmel, 58, mentioned that everyone nonetheless bets on the New England Patriots, the Boston Crimson Sox or the Boston Celtics.
“It doesn’t matter what … We by no means be taught, apparently,” Affleck added. “We’ll guess on the house crew, they usually by no means beat the unfold, and the bookies made some huge cash. I feel these had been like $10, $20 bets.”
Kimmel joked that Affleck’s dad nonetheless made “sufficient” cash to purchase him a VCR, and “these had been costly in these days.”
For Affleck, having a VCR was “the good factor on the planet since you might tape dwell reveals.” A few of his favorites to look at had been Magnum, P.I. and Simon & Simon, however Affleck additionally zeroed in on recording his personal TV commercials on his VCR.
“After I began performing, I did a Burger King industrial and so then I used to be continually ready to tape it if it got here on, however I didn’t know when it was going to return on, so that you needed to press pause and report on the identical time so it might be prepared,” he recalled. “I’d simply sit there via the industrial breaks like, ‘Nope, not my Burger King industrial,’ after which as quickly because it did come on, I needed to press report.”
After all, Burger King commercials had been solely just the start for this two-time Academy Award winner and three-time Golden Globe recipient. Followers can subsequent see Affleck within the motion thriller The Rip with longtime pal Matt Damon later this month.
“A gaggle of Miami cops discovers a stash of tens of millions in money, resulting in mistrust as outsiders be taught in regards to the enormous seizure, making them query who to depend on,” per the movie’s official synopsis.
The Rip will probably be accessible to stream on Netflix Friday, January 16.
