Ben Affleck is pensive while leaving his office after ‘moving his things out’ of $60M mansion he shared with Jennifer Lopez as she smiles in new video

Ben Affleck appears to be probably the most depressing man in Hollywood as he’s typically seen wanting downcast when out in Los Angeles and irritated when attending purple carpet occasions.

The film icon seems particularly unhappy now that his less-than two yr marriage to Jennifer Lopez is reportedly on the rocks. 

However this Hollywood actor – who got here to fame over 30 years in the past with 1992’s College Ties – has all of it, together with a $150million estimate internet price.

Affleck, 51, has two Academy Awards: one was for writing Good Will Searching (1998) and the opposite was for making Argo (2013).

And the Cambridge, Massachusetts native has a lot fame he lands journal covers, big-budget films and a large Dunkin’ Donuts marketing campaign.

His fortune from movies like Batman V Superman is huge as he now rents a $100K a month residence in Los Angeles.

And he has had a string of gorgeous girls in his life, from Gwyneth Paltrow and first spouse Jennifer Garner – the mother of his three youngsters – to second bride Lopez.

Nothing appears to have introduced him a lot happiness. And his grumpy disposition has sparked a thousand memes.

Whereas speaking to Kevin Hart for an episode from season 4 of his show Hart To Heart, the Oscar-winning actor addressed his grumpiness.

The star stated Affleck additionally addresses his resting grumpy face and his clarification is difficult to imagine because the actor – who has been in entrance of cameras for 3 a long time – declares he’s ‘shy.’ 

Ben stated: ‘I am additionally a bit of bit shy. I do not like plenty of consideration. Because of this individuals see me and so they’re like, “Why is that this dude all the time mad?” As a result of somebody had their digital camera sticking in my face, and I am like, “OK, right here we go.”‘

‘You might have resting b***h face,’ Hart joked.

‘B****h? Now,’ Affleck responded as he pretended to be mad.

‘I’ve resting arduous face. Persons are projecting onto me one thing that I do not really feel about myself in any respect.’

Hart loses factors for not asking Ben why he continues to be in showbusiness if he does not like consideration.

Ben, who additionally directs, has no plans to cease performing: his subsequent movie is The Accountant 2. 

This comes after a supply instructed DailyMail.com the primary motive J.Lo is upset together with her husband is as a result of he was all the time ‘grumpy and damaging’ like Oscar The Grouch from Sesame Road. 

‘If individuals might see what she has actually gone via they’d be simpler on her,’ stated the supply. 

‘Ben is a good man however he might be grumpy and a downer. 

‘I believe the world noticed that in photographs like once they had been on the Grammys final yr; he would not smile. In the event that they noticed the way it actually was, they’d not assault her,’ stated the good friend of Jennifer. 

‘He chain smokes and cusses and appears irritated plenty of the time. Nice director and actor, however not plenty of laughs with him, you understand?’ stated the supply. ‘He is a superb father although.’

Lopez plans on pushing on. 

‘She is absolutely not used to this type of dangerous suggestions, however she is going to recover from it. She is going to march on,’ stated the pal.

‘Jennifer is a really sensible and powerful girl and she is going to bounce again, she all the time does!’

And so far as how Jennifer and Ben are getting alongside nowadays, the insider stated they’re being ‘cordial’ with one another.

So what occurred to the as soon as jovial Ben who used to smile at followers and make out with Jennifer in public? 

The supply factors to the strain in Ben’s profession.

‘He’s now filming Accounting 2 and the hours are actually lengthy, he’s working arduous at it and it is so much to juggle with marriage and children,’ stated the supply. ‘So typically he’s not in the very best temper.’

In 2022, Ben mirrored on his unhappy meme from the now-iconic video of him sadly staring off into area throughout a press junket interview for Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice.

Affleck admitted that although he thought the memes sparked by the video had been humorous, he’s now extra involved in regards to the impacts it had on his youngsters.

The 8-year-old video – that includes a melancholy soundtrack – reveals Affleck alongside co-star Henry Cavill as they’re instructed that the film is getting blended opinions.

And whereas Cavill launches into an expert response, Affleck turns his gaze down with a glance of utter dismay.

The video – which went viral in a single day – was shortly was a parody, as YouTuber Sabconth added in a collage of damaging headlines from overview articles, in addition to Simon and Garfunkel’s music The Sound of Silence.

The actor opened up in regards to the meme and his public notion to the Los Angeles Times, saying, ‘I received to a spot the place [the public perception] was so totally different from who I’m that I simply stopped studying and stopped caring.’

He went on to say he was involved about his children being affected by it. ‘However then, as my children received older and began seeing the web themselves, that’s the troublesome half. Even the “Unhappy Affleck” meme — that was humorous to me. I imply, there’s no person who hasn’t felt that means at a junket,’ he acknowledged.

‘However then my children see it and I believe, “Oh, are they going to assume their dad is essentially unhappy or they’ve to fret about me?” That’s actually powerful,’ the star added.

The actor additionally mirrored on his early years and the way his public picture did not match his personal persona.

‘I believe once I was younger, individuals noticed me as any individual who had an excessive amount of or was profitable too simply or seemed like some sort of cavalier, insincere, callow frat man,’ he stated.

‘That was nothing like how I felt. I felt like this kind of insecure, anxious, overly verbal child from Boston who had tried to interrupt into this enterprise and was coping with his personal stuff. However there may be an fascinating factor about how we come off versus who we’re,’ he revealed. 

The star’s first style of moviemaking was at age seven within the unbiased movie, The Darkish Finish of the Road (1981), directed by a household good friend.

Subsequent he starred within the PBS youngsters’s collection The Voyage of the Mimi (1984) and The Second Voyage of the Mimi (1988).

As a teen, he appeared within the ABC after college particular Wished: A Good Man (1986), the tv movie Fingers of a Stranger (1987). Ben additionally did a Burger King industrial in 1989.

At Occidental School in Los Angeles, Affleck directed scholar movies.

Then he labored extra. He performed Patrick Duffy’s son within the tv movie Daddy (1991), made an uncredited look as a basketball participant within the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie (1992), and had a supporting function as a prep college scholar in College Ties (1992).

Then it was again to TV. He performed a highschool quarterback within the NBC tv collection Towards the Grain (1993), and a steroid-abusing highschool soccer participant in Physique to Die For: The Aaron Henry Story (1994). 

A small half in Dazed and Confused (1993) did little for his profession.

Affleck’s first starring movie function was as an aimless artwork scholar within the school drama Glory Daze (1995). He then performed a bully in Kevin Smith’s comedy Mallrats (1995) and subsequent got here Chasing Amy (1997). He received good opinions for Going All of the Manner (1997).

Then got here the success of 1997’s Good Will Searching, which modified all the pieces.

Alongside the best way, Ben has dated quite a few well-known beauties. He romanced Gwyneth Paltrow – with whom he starred in Bounce and Shakespeare in Love collectively – on-off from 1997-2000.

The Batman actor sparked up a romance with Saturday Evening Life producer Lindsay Shookus, who he dated from 2017 to 2019.

In 2018 the star was famously seen being pushed to rehab by ex-wife Jennifer Garner after his family members staged an intervention.

Ben appeared emotional as he left his home in a automotive pushed by Jennifer. The actor reportedly arrived at The Canyon live-in rehab facility, in Malibu, that very same night, the place he checked-in for an ‘prolonged time frame.’ He was famously snapped getting Jack In The Field en-route to therapy.

The identical yr he went to rehab, he had a short fling with Playboy mannequin Shauna Sexton – who at 23 was 20 years his junior – however that quickly fizzled out.

Ana de Armas and Ben had been first romantically linked in early 2020 after assembly on set of Deep Water in New Orleans. 

They in the end break up ‘mutually and amicably’ in response to a People report from January 2021 as sources claimed Ana did not need to be tied to Los Angeles, the place Ben needs to be primarily based for his children.  

‘Ben is not courting Ana,’ the supply instructed the publication. ‘She broke it off. Their relationship was sophisticated. Ana does not need to be Los Angeles primarily based and Ben clearly has to since his children stay in Los Angeles.’

The Gone Woman actor ultimately moved on to rekindle a romance with Lopez,

Subsequent up for Ben is The Accountant 2 with costar Jon Bernthal.