{"id":288894,"date":"2020-03-02T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1127521"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T23:10:00","slug":"heres-what-ben-affleck-really-thinks-about-his-platinum-blonde-hair-going-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/heres-what-ben-affleck-really-thinks-about-his-platinum-blonde-hair-going-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s What Ben Affleck Really Thinks About His Platinum Blonde Hair Going Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.527748691099\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21.746596858639\">\n<p>If there&#8217;s anyone who goes to great lengths to get into character, it&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ben_affleck\">Ben Affleck<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In late February, Affleck&nbsp;made headlines after a picture of him on set for the historical thriller&nbsp;<em>The Last Duel<\/em> made rounds on social media. Why did it cause such a ruckus, you ask? Well, besides Affleck dressed in his 14th-century fit, he was also rocking platinum blonde hair.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;s telling E! News what he&nbsp;<em>really<\/em> thinks about his platinum blonde hair going viral. During the red carpet premiere of his upcoming film&nbsp;<em>The Way Back<\/em>, the 47-year-old actor&nbsp;had the funniest reaction when he was asked about the hilarious blonde pictures going around on social media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the fuck! I can&#8217;t believe the blonde hair pictures,&#8221; Affleck said. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t even seen the [pictures]. I&#8217;m nervous because there&#8217;s good ones&#8230; from the right angle&#8230; I&#8217;m looking a little bit like if [Draco] Malfoy [from Harry Potter] grew up and had a tough life and grew a goatee.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"66.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23\">\n<p>But viral moments aside, Affleck also opened up about his role in&nbsp;<em>The Way Back<\/em>, in which he plays a widowed, former basketball all-star that&#8217;s struggling with addiction and attempts making a comeback as a basketball coach.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the role was &#8220;cathartic&#8221; for the actor, Affleck responded, &#8220;Yeah, definitely. There&#8217;s stuff in this movie that&#8217;s very close to my own life, you know, a recovering alcoholic\u2014this character has hit a really rough patch in his life, where he&#8217;s just drinking too much&#8230; he&#8217;s unhappy and he&#8217;s been through some personal trauma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;And some of it I can relate to, and some of it, I use my imagination.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.545454545455\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202022\/rs_634x1024-200302144307-634-ben-afflect.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ben Affleck\" alt=\"Ben Affleck\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\"> CREDIT Best Image \/ BACKGRID <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.050279329609\">\n<p>Most recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1124539\/ben-affleck-gets-emotional-talking-about-alcoholism-divorce-and-his-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Affleck opened up about his longtime battle with alcoholism<\/a> and the effects it has had on his family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with ABC News&#8217;&nbsp;<strong>Diane Sawyer<\/strong>, Affleck said, &#8220;I really don&#8217;t want my children to pay for my sins. Or to be afraid for me, which is one of the hard parts of being the child of an alcoholic. You think, &#8216;What if my dad gets drunk? What if he does something stupid? What if he ends up on TMZ, and it&#8217;s on my newsfeed and other kids see it?'&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Affleck also told the&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>in an interview that he&#8217;s doing his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1124060\/ben-affleck-reveals-all-6-confessions-about-jennifer-garner-sobriety-and-that-back-tattoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">very, very best and I hope that is\u2014it has to be good enough<\/a>. I have to. I don&#8217;t really have a choice. I have to be the man I want to be at this point. I don&#8217;t have any more room for failure of that kind.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And it sounds like he&#8217;s on the way there. Affleck also shared with E! News on the red carpet that he feels he&#8217;s grown up a lot as an actor.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>&#8220;I watch some of my earlier movies and think gosh, that doesn&#8217;t feel how I feel now as an actor. I feel much more connected to my real feelings and bring those to bear in a movie,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;I hope I get the chance to do movies like this, they&#8217;re much more satisfying at the end of the day when you go home, you feel like you&#8217;ve really been on a journey, you feel like you&#8217;ve really experienced something rather than just sort of hit your mark and said your joke or knocked out a bad guy or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Way Back<\/em> hits theatres on March 6, 2020.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! 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