Ben Affleck On Unhappy Affleck And Espresso Memes

If Ben isn’t one among your favourite movie star meme mills, you and I usually are not the identical. It’s fairly simple that Ben has ascended to true icon standing by a few of his viral moments, however it’s onerous to pinpoint simply why he’s so relatable. Now, in a latest interview with GQ, Ben took the time to look again on a few of his moments within the public eye and replicate on why he’s the “object” of loads of surveillance.

“I believe I don’t current in a really cautious manner,” Ben mused. “So I’ll exit and decide up the packages or deliveries and I don’t actually care that individuals are there to take my image. And a few individuals are in all probability, I suppose you’d name them smarter or extra strategic as a result of they assume, properly: ‘I don’t need to be seen carrying some T-shirt or spilling some drink.’ And I simply assume: ‘Oh fuck it, man, I might give a shit. I simply need to get the espresso.’”

For those who want a reminder, Ben’s referring to some coffee-related incidents that went mega-viral up to now couple of years. Again in 2020, the web went nuts over footage of Ben unsuccessfully trying to hold a moderately massive Dunkin’ Donuts order into his home. And truthfully, they went viral for good motive — I take into consideration them each time I try to carry greater than two gadgets.

“So perhaps that’s part of it. As a result of individuals are accustomed to a extra introduced, curated picture. My life is definitely fairly drama-free,” he continued, earlier than explaining that the truth of his life would bore most folk. “I’m a middle-aged man,” Ben defined, speaking about how he works a “9-to-5” on the workplace of his manufacturing firm, Artists Fairness.

Ben then mirrored on the explanation why he’s capable of converse so properly about being within the public eye a lot, and defined that he naturally analyzes his actions and spends time making an attempt to determine them out. “Naturally you go, like, ‘OK, perhaps I’ll simply put on the identical outfit each single day, so the images gained’t be distinguishable,’” he mentioned. “Or perhaps: ‘I’ll simply appear to be a slob,’ and I’m like, nope – then you definitely turn into the unhappy Affleck meme spilling the espresso. Which I’ve to say I believe is type of humorous.”

I’m glad Ben finds the Unhappy Affleck meme humorous, as a result of it really may be one among my favourite moments of the 2010s. He has addressed the second a couple of occasions earlier than (which, for those who aren’t acquainted, refers to a 2016 press junket for Batman v. Superman, the place he appears to be like significantly forlorn) and concluded that what folks considered him was finally out of his management. “I bought to a spot the place [the public perception] was so completely different from who I’m that I simply stopped studying and stopped caring,” he advised the LA Instances in 2022.

And, hey, whereas we are able to all acknowledge that Ben is completely proper, and that he’s a lot greater than snapshots of him doing menial duties, I’m joyful he can discover the humor in them. As a result of whether or not it’s exasperatedly smoking a cigarette or balancing a espresso on six packages, I’ll all the time really feel spiritually seen by Ben Affleck memes.