<p id=”par-1_29″><a href=”http://cheatsheet.com/tag/ben-affleck”>Ben Affleck</a> was out and about in LA on Sunday, just weeks ahead of the premiere of his new movie, <em>The Accountant 2, </em>which opens on April 25. <em> </em></p>
<p id=”par-2_40″>Photographers captured the<a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/ben-affleck-jennifer-garner-tears-after-off-the-rails-oscar-speech-revealed-intimate-details-their-marriage.html/”> Oscar-winning actor and director</a> dropping off his black SUV with a valet on March 30. The sighting comes shortly after Affleck gave a candid interview where he discussed his attitude about bizarre tabloid rumors and the paparazzi. </p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ben-Affleck-1.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Ben Affleck with his hand on the door of a Black SUV” class=”wp-image-3795356″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Ben Affleck is seen on March 30 in Los Angeles | Bellocqimages/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-3_55″>Affleck recently sat down for a lengthy conversation with <a href=”https://www.gq.com/story/inside-ben-afflecks-plan-to-remake-hollywood” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>GQ</a> about his career and his headline-generating personal life, including his <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/ben-affleck-jennifer-lopezs-amicable-divorce-window-finalization-close-source-says.html/”>2024 split from Jennifer Lopez</a>. He acknowledged that people were interested in the “soap opera” of his life but suggested that most people’s ideas about him – including the interviewer’s – weren’t based in reality. </p>
<p id=”par-4_26″>“I was thinking to myself that this person’s impression of my week is probably formed by three Daily Mail articles that are mostly absurd,” he said. </p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ben-Affleck-Car.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Ben Affleck next to a black SUV” class=”wp-image-3795355″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Ben Affleck Bellocqimages/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-5_66″>The <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/matt-damon-ben-affleck-shocked-good-will-hunting-released-motivated-write.html/”><em>Good Will Hunting </em>star</a> pointed to recent reports that the <a href=”https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/fbi-addresses-photos-outside-ben-afflecks-l-a-home/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>FBI had visited his home</a>. He said that the visit had happened, but they weren’t there to speak to him specifically. Agents were simply following up on “a break-in of a federal official’s home in that area,” he said. “So the FBI went around and whoever lived there, the FBI rang their bell.” </p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-3″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ben-Affleck-Valet.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Ben Affleck standing by an open door to a black SUV while a valet looks on” class=”wp-image-3795354″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Ben Affleck | Bellocqimages/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-6_35″>Affleck said he wasn’t sure why he was the subject of such intense scrutiny, but he speculated it had to do with his lack of interest in maintaining a meticulously curated image for the public. </p>
<p id=”par-7_51″>“I think I don’t present in a very careful way. So I’ll go out and pick up the packages or deliveries and I don’t really care that people are there to take my picture,” he said. (He later confessed that he found the “sad Affleck meme spilling coffee … kind of funny.”)</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-4″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ben-Affleck-Dog.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Ben Affleck walking his German shepherd” class=”wp-image-3795353″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Ben Affleck walking his dog on March 29 in Los Angeles | Bellocqimages/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-8_64″>“My life is actually pretty drama-free,” Affleck went on to say. Take his divorce from Lopez. Despite rampant speculation, the circumstances of their breakup were actually “quotidian … there’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue.” The <em>Argo </em>director stressed that he has “a lot of respect” for his ex, despite their different approaches to managing the divide between their “public and private life.”</p>
<p id=”par-9_28″>While Affleck didn’t expound on exactly what caused him and Lopez to end their relationship, he said people would find the real truth about their divorce incredibly dull.</p>
<p id=”par-10_43″>“[A]ll of this is pretty adult,” he said. “And for all the sensational stuff that gets written, if somebody sat down and talked to me about it, and I said, ‘Well, this is really the experience,’ their eyes would glaze over with boredom.”</p>
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