Michael Bay Wanted Everyone to Be Horny For Ben Affleck in Armageddon

All the information about Ben Affleck these days appears to be about how depressing he was taking part in Batman and taking pictures the Justice League film. So it’s virtually heartening to listen to one thing else about him, even when it’s mainly about Armageddon director Michael Bay ensuring the actor was sexually objectifiable sufficient to star within the blockbuster.

The memory comes from Entertainment Weekly, a small half of a giant interview performed by Affleck’s pal and cohort Matt Damon, by which the pair discusses Affleck’s profession as an actor and director to advertise his latest movie, The Tender Bar. First off, there’s the revelation that Affleck didn’t understand how dumb Armageddon’s premise was till some level after he shot the film:

“This was real Hollywood, which I felt like I had never seen. They dug out two stages of Disney for huge asteroid craters, and I didn’t even think about the fact that the basic premise of the movie was totally absurd. Why are they training oil drillers to be astronauts rather than astronauts to be oil drillers? You would think the learning curve would be somewhat more steep on the oil-drillers-to-astronauts route.”

Too true, Ben! It’s one thing that occurred to many people the minute we noticed the primary trailer! And it’s clearly one thing his children have realized as nicely:

“It’s funny because that’s the one movie of mine that my kids have watched and they’ll kind of all admit to liking, even though they relentlessly mock it and me. ‘What are you, driving a tank on the moon?’ But they had fun, you know what I mean? They won’t even watch The Town. So there you have it.”

I discover this very humorous certainly, however I’m additionally completely happy that Affleck’s children can mock him for making this very loud, unfathomably dumb film, however they nonetheless select to look at it over an Academy Award-nominated movie he directed. And I don’t imply that in a mean-spirited method; I feel The Town is an excellent film and actively dislike Armageddon, however someway I’ve nonetheless seen the latter many extra instances than the previous.

Anyway, the true revelation is how… involved Michael Bay was that Affleck was correctly horny for the film:

“And I was a little naive about the opinions people would form about me. Or Michael [Bay] and Jerry [Bruckheimer]’s focus on aesthetics, like, ‘You guys gotta go to the tanning bed!’ They made me fix my teeth and work out and be sexy. Be sexy, how do I do that? ‘Go to the gym!’ Running in the gym and putting oil on my body and stuff, and it just turned out to be a long-form version of one of those male topless calendars, in a garage, carrying a tire, kind of greased up. Michael had a vision of a glistening male torso in the oil, and he was like, ‘That’s going to go in the trailer and sell tickets!’ And you know, what can you say?”

Not a lot should you’re a younger actor who will get referred to as upon to star in a serious blockbuster with a price range of $140 million. But Affleck doesn’t appear bothered by it, which is good. Besides, after seeing varied feminine stars get totally ogled by the digital camera in Michael Bay’s different films, I’m actually type of completely happy there was a little bit of gender equality within the director’s lasciviousness, if solely briefly.

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