How Ben Affleck Seriously Annoyed Kevin Smith While Filming Their 1997 Hit

Kevin Smith has labored with Ben Affleck on a number of film tasks, however plainly whereas engaged on 1997’s Chasing Amy, the director grew to become so aggravated by Affleck’s fixed ad-libbing that Smith instructed him to place that type of stuff “in your individual f*cking script someday.” Hilariously, Smith famous that Affleck did simply that, resulting in nice acclaim and an Oscar win in addition.

Chasing Amy was Smith’s third directorial effort and starred Affleck as Holden McNeil, a comic book guide artist who falls in love with Joey Lauren Adams’ Alyssa, who simply occurs to be a lesbian. The movie, like a lot of Smith’s motion pictures, was an enormous monetary success, spinning its $250,000 finances right into a $12 million field workplace win.

Whereas chatting with EW in a retrospective look again at his profession highlights, Smith touched on Chasing Amy, and his response to Affleck’s over use of ad-libs throughout filming. He mentioned:

“Ben Affleck likes to ad-lib and he ad-libbed like loopy on [ Chasing Amy] . I mentioned, ‘Look dude, I can’t stand it. You’re at all times ad-libbing. Like, don’t do it, don’t make up dialogue. Simply do the script as written. Should you actually need to make up s— and say issues, save all that s—, put it in your individual f—ing script someday. And he did, and he gained an Oscar.”

That Oscar would come courtesy of Good Will Looking, which additionally gained a Golden Globe for Finest Screenplay. Regardless of his many successes – and frequent bouts of ad-libbing – Affleck has appeared in a complete of eight of Smith’s motion pictures, together with more moderen choices equivalent to Jay and Silent Bob Reboot and Clerks III.

May Ben Affleck Seem within the Lengthy-Awaited Mallrats 2?

There may be each probability that Ben Affleck may make Mallrats 2 one other addition to his collaborations with Smith – if the director can ever get it made. Resulting from Common proudly owning the rights to Mallrats, however being unwilling to finance the film, Smith’s plans for the sequel have been in limbo for a while. Whereas the demise of Shannen Doherty earlier this yr nearly led to Smith giving up on the movie solely, he not too long ago instructed that he’ll hold knocking on the door till he could make it. Talking to Deadline, he mentioned:

“I believe we’re going again to have a dialogue once more about like, look, you guys are by no means gonna do something with this. Like, however we will and would and would and would like to. So are you able to allow us to take it out? We’re not asking Common to finance it, but it surely’s similar to, hey, can we’ve got it so we will exit as a result of I can get that film financed in a heartbeat, Mallrats 2.”