“They made me heal my teeth, train me and be sexy. Being sexy, how do you do that?”
Ben Affleck shared the physical demands he had to fulfill for his 1998 film “Armageddon”.
The 49-year-old was interviewed by Matt Damon for the February issue of Entertainment Weekly where longtime friends and collaborators had a conversation about Affleck’s career.
Although Affleck is used to preparing for different roles and stepping into character, the “Batman” actor confessed he was a little surprised by the physical change the producers wanted him to undergo for his project. “Armageddon”.
“I was a little naive about what people would think of me,” Affleck admitted, the movie follows an oil driller who is trained to be an astronaut. “Or Michel [Bay] and Jerry [Bruckheimer]the emphasis is on aesthetics, like, “You have to go to the tanning bed!” “”
“They made me heal my teeth, train me and be sexy. Being sexy, how do you do that?” he recalled. “‘Going to the gym!’ Running in the gym and putting oil on my body and stuff, and it turned out to be a long version of one of those topless calendars for men, in a garage, wearing a tire , a little greased. “
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Affleck shared that Bay “had a vision of a male torso glistening in oil, and he was like, ‘It’s going to go in the trailer and sell tickets!’ And you know, what can you say? We could have done, I think, 400 Chasing Amys for what we did Armageddon for.
The actor added, “It’s funny because this is the only one of my movies my kids have watched and they will all admit to loving it, even if they relentlessly laugh at him and me. ‘Qu ‘are you driving a tank on the moon?’ But they had fun, you know what I mean, they won’t even watch ‘The city’. So this is it.”
“Armageddon” follows a group of oil drillers who are trained for an important mission when an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth. Oil drillers are tasked with piercing the surface of the rogue asteroid with the aim of detonating a bomb inside.
Affleck stars alongside Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Liv Tyler. The film went wild and grossed $ 553 million worldwide, ultimately becoming the highest grossing film of 1998.