For his new movie The Tender Bar, George Clooney had some concerns for his friend Ben Affleck, who plays one of the main roles. Here’s why.
After several collaborations, Ben Affleck reunites with his friend George Clooney in The Bar Tender, a film that Clooney is directing. In this drama available on Amazon Prime Video and based on the successful memoir of writer and journalist JR Moehringer, Ben Affleck plays Charlie, a bar owner who becomes the father figure of his nephew JR and helps him grow and grow. to realize his dream of becoming an author.
George Clooney worried about his friend
If Ben Affleck found a role in this film that was close to his heart, George Clooney had some concerns for his friend, who had problems with drinking and went to rehab, which the filming did not affect him personally being given that a large part of his sequences take place in a bar.
George Clooney said in an interview for The Times of London he “was worried about shooting in a bar because Affleck is a recovering alcoholic”.
It should be noted that Ben Affleck spoke freely about his addiction in the media and his efforts to get out of it, but also the consequences of his alcoholism on his marriage with Jennifer Garner and his family life.
The actor had declared in 2018 to Hollywood Reporter that his personal experiences helped him become a better actor, especially when he played a basketball coach with alcoholism in The Way Back, and surely in The Tender Bar, available on Amazon Prime Video.
Since the interview with The Times of London, a representative for George Clooney has made a point of clarifying his remarks to Insider and specifies that the actor would never have used the word “alcoholic”.
The Tender Bar trailer, on Amazon Prime Video: