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“I’ve come to believe you can’t get there the easy way,” Affleck says of the
values he holds today. “Most of them were born of failure.” The Row coat,
$4,590, TheRow.com, Dolce & Gabbana shirt, $845, DolceGabbana.com.


BEN AFFLECK ON THE GIFT OF SECOND CHANCES


THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR AND ACTOR, WHO PORTRAYS A CHARACTER “ODDLY CLOSE” TO
HIS OWN FATHER IN THE NEW FILM ADAPTATION OF ‘THE TENDER BAR,’ TALKS ABOUT
LEARNING FROM PAST FAILURES AND FEELING GRATEFUL FOR HIS IMPERFECT LIFE.

“I’ve come to believe you can’t get there the easy way,” Affleck says of the
values he holds today. “Most of them were born of failure.” The Row coat,
$4,590, TheRow.com, Dolce & Gabbana shirt, $845, DolceGabbana.com.
By Michael Hainey | Photography by Micaiah Carter for WSJ. Magazine | Styling by
Edward Bowleg III
Dec. 1, 2021 8:30 am ET

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Ben Affleck’s big break as an actor came when he was 11 years old with The
Voyage of the Mimi, a PBS show designed to educate kids that ran for one season
in 1984. In it, the character of C.T. Granville is played by Affleck, a boy
whose quest for knowledge about how the world works finds him seeking out
conversations with scientists and other wise men and women.

Now, 38 years—and what feels like a number of professional and personal
lifetimes—later, the 49-year-old Affleck is no longer the searching boy but, in
a new film directed by George Clooney, the wise man. He plays Uncle Charlie, the
emotional heart of The Tender Bar, a bestselling memoir by J.R. Moehringer in
which he recounts how, largely abandoned by his own father, he found a world of
loving, generous, sometimes cockeyed father figures in his uncle’s Long Island
bar, with Uncle Charlie the greatest of them.

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