🎬 CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: Why Steven Spielberg Will Never Work With Ben Affleck (Podcast Exclusive)

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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the cutting room floor today.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
He's something I read yesterday and I'd run it past you.
Apparently there's a hilarious reason why Steven Spielberg has never
made a movie with Ben Affleck.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Why do you think that they may never have worked together?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Maybe he saw Batman versus Superman, which I liked.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
By the way, who was in that apart from Ben Affleck?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Who was He's Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Who was who Henry Superman?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Ben Affleck was Batman? And I thought it was really good.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
How old were you? There's reason?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
But you know I was an adult because I took
my son, my oldest son, and he liked it too,
and we both enjoyed our defensive And then the critics
came out and slagged Ben Affleck, and I was outraged.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, it's nothing to do, nothing to do with Ben's work.
Here's the quote.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
One time, this is according to Steven Spielberg, one time
at band camp.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
This is how he speaks.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
One time he was going out with my goddaughter Gwyneth,
so Gwyneth Paltrow is Steven Spielberg's goddaughter, of course with me.
So one time he was going out with my goddaughter, Gwyneth,
and we all went on a trip to Spain. It's
casual and my son was a little boy playing in
the pool and he got out of the pool and
Ben came in fully dressed, and my son pushed Ben

(01:42):
into the pool, and Ben got really mad at him.
He came out of the pool, picked him up, threw
him back in the pool and made my son cry.
And that's why Steven Spielberg has chosen to never which.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Side do you think the fair enough? Ish's fair enough
for Ben Affleck? What a little shit? Who the kid? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
So Ben Affer comes out fully clothed, and.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
He's a kid.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Dick of a kid pushes him in the pool. That's that,
it's disrespectful, that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
But would you pick up the kid and sring him
in the pool, even if you knew it meant you'd
never work with the best director of the world has
ever seen.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Wow? Yeah, well it depends, but you know that you've
got to mark your turn.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
But if you're a guest in someone's house, so there
it's some villa in Spain.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
And on Steve's Steve's dime.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Presumably, Hey, my goddaughter's here and her boyfriend.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I hear an actor, Oh, I'm going to chuck your
kid in the pool.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, I think that's I just find I get the
kids are naughty.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I think that's not your place, it's not your that's
sense of entitlement.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Have been cranky, no athlete, not at all.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I think Steven Spielberg's a soft cock parent. And then
what he should have done is said, hey, you don't
do that. You respect your elders.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Maybe the whole problem.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Maybe he didn't get a chance to say it. Maybe
it all happened so quickly. Maybe Steve wasn't there. Who
knows what went on.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I remember when I was a kid, one of my
dad's mates yelling at me because I mistreated had a
diving mask that he had we were swimming in What
does that mean?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
According to him?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
So I had like a diving mask. He was in
the skin diving, right, and we're in his pool.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
He's backyard skin diving diving. Weird expression. Skin diving, he
mean scuba diving.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Skin diving is like snorkeling. Before snorklings, as.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
I haven't heard the word skin diving sounds skin. I
was like, poor, skin diving is.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Not all that was the seventies anyway, they go spearfishing.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
And all that jump.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
So he had a range of very good diving masks
and we're all swimming in the pool anyway, I'm we're
using the diving mask. I come out of the pool
and just sort of throw it to the side of
the pool and then dive in the water again. And
then I come to the surface. He grabs me and
gives me a crow pick on the head. And so
watch how you treat that diving mask. That's a one
hundred and fifty dollars diving mask, which is a fair

(04:02):
bit of money back then. And I was in front
of my dad, and my.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Dad just accepted it, and do you think that was fair?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
And that brought teas to my eyes because heard and
was humiliating in front of everyone. Every under sat there
and watched and.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
See who side are you on now for that?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, I'm on, I'm I did the wrong thing. I
never did that again. I never mess trated his stuff
when I went around to someone else's house. I do
understand that ben Affleck's at Steven Spielberg's rented villa. But
having said that, Steven Spielberg is sided with the wrong person.
And you know what, Ben Affleck could have been graded

(04:35):
any of Spielberg's movies.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
But we'll never know.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's what ben Affleck threw away by impulsive. He could
have been picking up his kid and chucking him.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
In the pool.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
He could have been in the Gooty three.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
He could have been Raiders of the Last Dark number
one hundred and fifty eight million.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Instead, he could.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Have been No, he could have been the Crystal Skull.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Separate to that, I get an impression that this is
a cranky, very thin skin.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Don't mess with me, guy Spielberg.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Ben Affleck, he's as cranky as he's surly, does not
tolerate fool's hat.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Kid, I'll chuck in the pool.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
There was a sense of that, but Spielberger's reacted to
we don't know the nuances.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, but beneath I'm team I'm team Ben Effleck, and
anything you say about Ben you can say to me,
I think I just did well. We're very thin skin,
so be prepared to be chucked at the pool.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
You need a crow pick okay kids, ST's it for today,
Come back tomorrow for more.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
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