{"id":288748,"date":"2020-02-27T12:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T19:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1126604"},"modified":"2020-02-27T12:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T19:52:03","slug":"ben-afflecks-daughter-couldnt-believe-he-was-invited-to-co-stars-group-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ben-afflecks-daughter-couldnt-believe-he-was-invited-to-co-stars-group-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck&#8217;s Daughter Couldn&#8217;t Believe He Was Invited to Co-Stars&#8217; Group Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019928\/rs_600x600-191028051944-600-Ben-Affleck-LT-102819-BGUS_1766731_003.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.547445255474\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"25.802919708029\">\n<p>While the co-stars of&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ben_affleck\">Ben Affleck<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s new movie found him cool enough to invite him to&nbsp;their group chat,&nbsp;one of his kids had her doubts.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting next to fellow <em>The Way Back<\/em> cast members&nbsp;<strong>Charles Lott Jr.<\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Melvin Gregg<\/strong>,&nbsp;the 47-year-old actor revealed the candid response his and ex-wife&#8217;s daughter&nbsp;<strong>Violet<\/strong>, the eldest of their three children, gave him&nbsp;upon the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I loved hanging out with these guys. It was so much fun. They even put me on the group chat at the end of the movie. I was enormously flattered,&#8221; Affleck told E! News. &#8220;My 14-year-old daughter&#8230;can&#8217;t believe they put me on the group chat, thinks it&#8217;s crazy. She was like, &#8216;They&#8217;re just pretending.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lott said they were initially&nbsp;afraid to&nbsp;ask Affleck to join the chat. Gregg said he was one of the most active people on it.<\/p>\n<p>In The<em> Way Back<\/em>, a sports drama, Affleck plays a former basketball star and recovering alcoholic who&nbsp;hopes for a career comeback with his new job as a basketball coach at his alma mater. The actor&nbsp;has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1124539\/ben-affleck-gets-emotional-talking-about-alcoholism-divorce-and-his-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">battled alcohol addiction himself throughout his life and has been to rehab<\/a> several times.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>Affleck praised the film&#8217;s &#8220;complicated and multilayered&#8221; scenes, which allowed him to &#8220;display a range of emotions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>&#8220;Really, the best part was the inspiration I got from these guys,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Way Back<\/em> is set for release on March 6.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1126604\/ben-affleck-s-daughter-couldn-t-believe-he-was-invited-to-co-stars-group-chat?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the co-stars of&nbsp;Ben Affleck&#8216;s new movie found him cool enough to invite him to&nbsp;their group chat,&nbsp;one of his kids had her doubts. Sitting next to fellow The Way Back cast members&nbsp;Charles Lott Jr. and&nbsp;Melvin Gregg,&nbsp;the 47-year-old actor revealed the candid response his and ex-wife&#8217;s daughter&nbsp;Violet, the eldest of their three children, gave him&nbsp;upon the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-29 05:48:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}