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 pals get $100, but when they lose it, then that’s it.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s an actual customary, 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 form of being a small-time bookie,” Affleck, whose household moved to Massachusetts when he was 3, defined. “I bear in mind our first washer, our first VCR, the truth is, Dad coming house like, ‘You possibly can 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 have 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, nevertheless it was unlawful.”
Affleck then clarified his feedback, agreeing, “It was straight up unlawful. It was legal. But it surely was like a factor that you just needed to be frightened about, yeah.”
Kimmel, 58, mentioned that everyone nonetheless bets on the New England Patriots, the Boston Pink Sox or the Boston Celtics.
“It doesn’t matter what … We by no means be taught, apparently,” Affleck added. “We are going to guess on the house crew, and so they by no means beat the unfold, and the bookies made some huge cash. I feel these have been like $10, $20 bets.”
Kimmel joked that Affleck’s dad nonetheless made “sufficient” cash to purchase him a VCR, and “these have been costly in these days.”
For Affleck, having a VCR was “the best factor on the earth since you might tape stay exhibits.” A few of his favorites to look at have 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 consistently 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 file on the identical time so it could be prepared,” he recalled. “I might simply sit there by the industrial breaks like, ‘Nope, not my Burger King industrial,’ after which as quickly because it did come on, I needed to press file.”
After all, Burger King commercials have been solely only 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 concerning the big seizure, making them query who to depend on,” per the movie’s official synopsis.
The Rip will likely be obtainable to stream on Netflix Friday, January 16.
