“I’ve had, it feels like, every kind of failure you can have,” Affleck previously told Parade. “There are about 10 movies that I’m really proud of, maybe 20 that I feel kind of mixed about and 10 that I still kind of regret.” He doesn’t completely regret those failures, however, as he always tries to approach the occasional misstep as a learning experience. “Otherwise,” he says, “I never would have kept acting past 2003, or even past 1992, when I couldn’t get a job from anybody!” For Affleck, who grew up alongside Matt Damonand caught the acting bug as a child, success is first and foremost about being a good father; everything else is secondary. “I was just talking to Matt about this last night, that as we’ve gotten older, we kind of have our own definitions of success or failure that we trust more than feeling the need to look to other people for approval or encouragement,” he explained. “I’ve just learned to really trust my own sense of, ‘Did I grow from this? Did I get something valuable from this?’” Of course, his paychecks are pretty valuable as well. Keep reading to find out more about Ben Affleck’s net worth in 2022,and how he earned it.
How did Ben Affleck become famous?
Born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt, Affleck got his start in acting as a child when he was featured in an independent film called Dark End of the Street in 1979 at just 7 years old. When he was 9, he appeared in the educational series The Voyage of the Mimi and its sequel. Affleck’s first mainstream role was in a Burger King commercial that makes him cringe in retrospect (though his performance, for the material he was given, was fine!). As he later recalled about that experience on Good Morning America, “That was my first experience with fame at all, because like, The Economist did a big story about how Burger King’s current campaign is failing, and they used a picture of me from that commercial. The first time I ever got in the press was for bombing, apparently, in that commercial. It makes sense, now that I look at it, why it didn’t work!” In 1987, Affleck appeared in the miniseries Hands of a Stranger, and attended the University of Vermont briefly to be near his then-girlfriend. When Affleck turned 18, he moved to Los Angeles, where he briefly attended Occidental College to study Middle Eastern affairs. He took small roles (some uncredited) in early ’90s films including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and, most notably, as a bully in Dazed and Confused. It was Affleck’s role in Kevin Smith’s Mallrats in 1995, once more playing a bully, that would help Affleck break out into the mainstream. Smith and Affleck bonded during the making of Mallrats, and the director went on to cast Affleck in 1997’s Chasing Amy, which was considered his breakout role. The same year, Affleck and childhood BFF Damon wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting, which was a massive hit, grossing over $225 million on a paltry $10 million budget. Affleck and Damon immediately became household names and won an Oscar in 1998 for Best Original Screenplay, while the film also nabbed a Best Supporting Actor award for Robin Williams. Affleck and Damon’s Oscar acceptance speech is one of the most beloved ever. “I just said to Matt, ‘Losing would suck and winning would be really scary,’” Affleck admitted when he got onstage. Damon and Affleck also called out their moms, “the most beautiful women in this room,” and couldn’t contain their enthusiasm. In 2021, the two childhood buddies are working together once more, co-starring in director Ridley Scott’s historical epic The Last Duel (see more on that below).
What is Ben Affleck’s net worth in 2022?
Ben Affleck’s net worth is currently estimated at $150 million, thanks to his endeavors not just in acting, but also directing, screenwriting and producing.
How did Ben Affleck and Matt Damon meet?
Affleck met his forever bestie when they were 8 and 10 years old, respectively. Affleck previously told Paradethat their moms introduced them and that even though they were two years apart, they shared so many similar interests (acting and films, of course, as well as baseball) that they hit it off right away. “Before Matt, I was by myself. Acting was a solo activity where I’d just go off and do something, act in a little TV show or something, and no one understood it,” Affleck said. “None of the other kids knew what it was I did, how it worked, or anything. All of a sudden, I had this friend, Matt, and he gets it and wants to do it and thinks it’s interesting and wants to talk about it. Soon both of us are doing it.” They’d travel to New York City together by train to go to auditions, and they were both extras in Field of Dreams. Damon then starred alongside Brendan Fraserin School Ties, with Affleck taking a small supporting role in the film. In 2019, Damon recalled that it was when Affleck defended him in a fight that he knew their friendship was the real deal. Watch him tell the story below:
Are Ben Affleck and Matt Damon still friends?
Damon and Affleck remain close to this day. In fact, Damon and Affleck teamed up once more to co-write the script (with Nicole Holofcener) for The Last Duel, in which they both star alongside Adam Driverand Jodie Comer. It’s their first project together in 25 years, which the pals joked was in part because when they wrote Good Will Hunting they had no idea what they were doing, so that script alone took quite a while for them to compose. “We hadn’t ever taken a class on how to structure a screenplay, so structure was definitely not our strong suit. What we really understood were the characters, so we ended up writing thousands of pages of scenes where we’d just make up a scene idea,” Damon told Entertainment Weekly. “We’d write that scene and then we crammed it all together into something that looked like a screenplay. Both of us thought it would be so consuming to write together again, we just didn’t bother. We thought that is what our process would be. When we decided to do this, having been making movies for 25 years and telling two-hour stories in three acts for all that time, we got the hang of structure, so it went a lot faster. And we actually outlined it this time.” Affleck added, “From the outside, it’s like, ‘Oh these guys worked together a long time ago and there’s this big-time gap.’ But Matt’s one of the few people I really trust and believe has my best interests at heart and gives good feedback. We’ve often talked about movies and collaborated in that way.” Damon has also publicly cheered on Affleck’s romantic reunion with Jennifer Lopez, to whom he was engaged in 2003, and proposed to again in April 2022. The Talented Mr. Ripley star gushed in August 2021, “Oh man, no one’s pulling harder [for ‘Bennifer’] than I am. They’re both great. I just want for their happiness. They seem pretty happy right now.” Lopez told People shortly before their 2022 engagement, “We’re older now, we’re smarter, we have more experience, we’re at different places in our lives, we have kids now, and we have to be very conscious of those things.”
Who has a higher net worth, Jennifer Lopez or Ben Affleck?
Cue the Sad Affleck memes: J.Lo has the higher net worth! The multi-hyphenate superstar is worth an estimated $400 million thanks to her acting, music, touring, producing and product lines. He’s not bitter about it, though: Affleck gushed to AdWeekin 2021 of his rekindled love, “I am in awe of what Jennifer’s effect on the world is. At most, as an artist, I can make movies that move people. Jennifer has inspired a massive group of people to feel they have a seat at the table in this country… That is an effect few people throughout history have had, one I will never know and one I can only stand by and admire with respect.”
How much did Ben Affleck get paid for Batman?
What Affleck earned for playing Batman isn’t publicly known, but Deadlinehas reported that, because Affleck was already “a star with an eight-figure quote before he put on the Batsuit,” he probably made at least eight figures (i.e., likely between $10 million and $20 million) to play Bruce Wayne. “I did Batman because I wanted to do it for my kids. I wanted to do something that my son would dig. I mean, my kids didn’t see Argo,” Affleck told The Hollywood Reporter in January 2021. “I wore the suit to my son’s birthday party, which was worth every moment of suffering on Justice League.” That said, he wasn’t too upset to hang up the cowl for good. He told GQ of rejecting a solo Batman film, “I had my fill of that. They said, ‘Would you like to direct and star in a solo Batman movie?’ And I found that, at some point, I had lost my enthusiasm or passion for it. And I thought this should really be made by someone who for whom it’s their wildest dream come true. It was clear to me it was time to move on.”
How much did Ben Affleck make for Justice League?
Affleck’s Justice Leaguesalary isn’t publicly known, but it’s safe to assume he made decent money for the film: He didn’t just star as Batman in the superhero supergroup flick, he also served as one of the movie’s executive producers. That said, the movie’s box office numbers were disappointing: While it made more than $657 million worldwide, it had a $300 million budget thanks to reshoots and other issues, so the actual return on the investment wasn’t as high as it could have been otherwise. He admitted that Justice League wasn’t a great experience, and reports of the toxic set came out years later, with many fingers pointed at director Joss Whedon, who was brought in after Zack Snyderbowed out of the project following a heartbreaking family tragedy. While Affleck didn’t comment directly on specific allegations, he did tell Varietythat reprising his role of Batman in the upcoming The Flash went a lot better than his previous outings as the Caped Crusader did. “It was a really nice way to revisit that as the prior experience had been difficult,” he admitted. “This was really lovely. Really fun. I had a great time.” He added jokingly, “I’m probably under some gag order that I’m not even aware that I probably just violated and I’m now going to be sued.”
How much did Ben Affleck get paid for Pearl Harbor?
Affleck was reportedly paid $10 million to star in 2001’s Pearl Harbor. He said of the project ahead of its premiere, “It made me proud to be involved in a movie that was going to try to show some of the gratitude that we owe as a nation to that generation of Americans.” He added, “One of the most gripping and affecting moments for me, emotionally, was… visiting the [USS] Arizona memorial, and that affected me. That gave me a sense of place and history, and a real sense of humility.” He didn’t just make big bucks for Pearl Harbor; he also met his then-future (now-ex) wife, Jennifer Garner, while making the film. “We met on Pearl Harbor, which people hate,” he recalled to Playboy, “but we fell in love on Daredevil.”
How much did Ben Affleck make for Gone Girl?
It’s unclear how much Affleck made for Gone Girl, but Deadlinereports that he had a “first-dollar gross position” on the film, meaning he took a salary upfront and earned a percentage of the box office grosses. Because the film netted more than $368 million on a relatively small $61 million budget, chances are he made a good sum for his dark turn as Nick Dunne. Director David Lynchsaid Affleck was the perfect actor for the role of the bad husband tormented by an even worse wife and a harsh media. “Here’s the thing people don’t know about Ben Affleck: He’s way smart. He can be mean and b*hy. And he is a formidable intellect,” Lynch told Time Out New York. “He chooses—because I think there’s the actor side of him that wants to be liked—to let other people off the hook. But it was his intellect and the fact that he truly understands what a st show it is to be scrutinized in the paparazzi 24 hours a day—he’s been through the whole Bennifer thing. He knows the cosmic joke of it, which is: You can’t spin this. You’re not even in it.”
How much did Ben Affleck get paid for Batman v Superman?
Affleck’s specific salary for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hasn’t been reported, but we do know that in 2016, the year it was released, Affleck made a total of $43 million. As Bruce Wayne, he reportedly earned an upfront fee as well as backend points for box office grosses, making him one of the highest-paid actors of that period. The movie was ravaged by critics, and when asked about the harsh reviews in an interview alongside co-star Henry Cavill, Affleck became a meme: “Sad Affleck,” featuring footage of him looking dejected and set to the tune of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence.” He later said of the viral moment and the movie as a whole, “It taught me not to do interviews with Henry Cavill where I don’t say anything and they could lay Simon and Garfunkel tracks over it, that’s one thing I learned.”
How much did Ben Affleck get paid for Suicide Squad?
Affleck had a small cameo in Suicide Squad, but his payday for the appearance hasn’t been reported. Because the part was so tiny (if quite important in setting up Justice League), the salary likely wasn’t huge—unless he took backend points from the box office grosses, which amounted to close to $747 million. He wasn’t officially credited in the film’s marketing materials because his cameo was a surprise after-credits scene.
How much did Ben Affleck get paid for Armageddon?
It’s not widely known how much Affleck got paid for Armageddon, but it made mega box office bucks, earning $554 million on a $140 million budget. It was one of Affleck’s first roles post-Good Will Hunting, so chances are he wasn’t making eight figures for it, but he likely made quite a bit more than he did for his debut outing. In the film’s DVD commentary, Affleck delivered some hilarious remarks about the feasibility of the film’s plot. “I asked [director Michael Bay href=“https://parade.com/1223919/gwynnewatkins/best-end-of-the-world-movies/” target="_blank”] why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the f**k up," he cracked. “That was the end of that talk.”
How much did Ben Affleck make for Good Will Hunting?
Affleck and Damon sold the Good Will Hunting screenplay for $600,000, each netting $300,000 for writing the Oscar-winning script. Damon told GQthat he and Affleck wept on the first day of shooting while watching Robin Williams and Stellan Skarsgard shoot a scene. “Sometimes those moments sneak up on you,” he admitted. “And that was another one of those moments we never thought was going to arrive. To see not only actors, but those actors, saying the stuff that we wrote, was like…fk! Just, I guess, a mixture of joy and disbelief. And relief. And gratitude. That would probably be it. That was a really nice moment. I’m not ashamed to say it.” Affleck told Vanity Fair, only somewhat jokingly, that the reason he starred in Good Will Hunting was because of the Boston accents. “It was the whole reason I did the movie—just to do the accent,” he explained. “The Boston accent is more of an attitude than an accent. Underneath everything you say has to be the attitude of: ‘You’re an ahole, I know better than you, f**k you.’”
How much did Ben Affleck make for The Accountant?
Affleck’s turn as a mathematics savant in The Accountant, released in 2016, was a successful one. The opening weekend box office grosses alone earned more than half of its modest $44 million production budget back, with total worldwide grosses upwards of $155 million. Affleck’s exact numbers for the film aren’t known, but assuming he got paid both upfront and in a percentage of box office grosses, it was likely a wise move. Additionally, the film ended with room for potential sequels, which may lead to more money for him down the line if he reprises the role (which, it’s been reported, he will). Affleck’s character in The Accountant is on the autism spectrum, and Affleck said he and the rest of the cast and crew went to great lengths to make the character seem realistic. “It was a lot of work because we cared about getting it right. The last thing we wanted to do was a cartoon version, a caricature or an over-simplification because it is a condition that people really have,” he told Collider. “The more complicated the better because that meant it was more real. The people that we met and talked to all had very complicated situations and lives. There was an amazing spectrum of special gifts that we found. So, it should feel complicated. On the one hand, he does want to connect, and he wants to connect very much, but some things can’t be fixed. He doesn’t connect in a way where he can put his arms around this woman (Anna Kendrick) and kiss her, but he connects with her in another way. Seeing that is what’s complicated and what’s interesting about it.”
How much did Ben Affleck make for Daredevil?
Affleck reportedly took home a cool $12.5 million to play Matt Murdock in Marvel’s Daredevil in 2003. The movie received poor reviews, and Affleck himself later said one of the reasons he starred in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was to compensate for Daredevil’s failures. “That’s the movie I want to do. I want to be a part of that. Part of it was I wanted for once to get one of these movies and do it right—to do a good version,” he said. “I hate Daredevil so much.”
What did Ben Affleck study at Harvard?
Affleck didn’t attend Harvard. He had high SAT scores, but wasn’t accepted into the Ivy League university. He briefly studied Spanish at the University of Vermont, followed by another short stint studying Middle Eastern relations at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
What did Ben Affleck win an Academy Award for?
Affleck won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar with Damon for Good Will Hunting in 1998. In 2013, Affleck took home the Oscar for Best Picture as a producer (alongside George Clooney) for Argo, which Affleck also directed and starred in. In Affleck’s moving acceptance speech, he said what he’d learned from his career in Hollywood is that “you have to work harder than you think you possibly can. You can’t hold grudges. It’s hard, but you can’t hold grudges. And it doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life because that’s going to happen. All that matters is you gotta get up.”
What does Ben Affleck earn per movie?
Affleck’s earnings per movie vary by box office performance, as well as how involved he is (i.e., whether he is just starring in a film or whether he’s also credited as a writer, director, or producer). That said, he reportedly nets at least $10 million upfront per project. Next, find out Ben Affleck’s BFF Matt Damon’s net worth!
