The Way Back director revealed Jennifer Garner helped make sure Ben Affleck's film still got made after his relapse in 2018
, a student publication at the University of Pennsylvania, about the actress’s influence on the film after Affleck, 47, relapsed in 2018.
“So, what happened was, just as we started prepping the movie, Ben fell off the wagon,” O’Connor told the publication. “So he ended up going to rehab, and I didn’t know if the movie was over. The studio certainly thought the movie was over.”Jennifer Garner called me up, and told me that when he went to rehab, he took a basketball with him,” O’Connor said. “She said, ‘Gavin, he’s asking you, please don’t pull the plug on the movie, he really wants to do this.'”O’Connor said Affleck “had about a week of detoxing” before he was able to meet with the actor to discuss the film and its future.
“We spent half a day together and figured out a way to do this that will work for him, because most importantly he needed to recover and needed to get his sobriety on track,” O’Connor said. “That overtook everything. And then he got out the day before we started shooting. So we had a very raw, vulnerable guy showing up for our first day of shooting.”The Way Back
follows Jack Cunningham, a former basketball all-star struggling with addiction and attempting to find balance by becoming a coach at his former high school’s basketball team.
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