Ben Affleck Would Love More Kids
Parenting agrees with Ben Affleck. The father of Violet Anne Affleck, who turns 1 on Dec. 1, says he wants more children with wife Jennifer Garner – though just how many more seems open to discussion.Ellen DeGeneres, broaching the topic with the 34-year-old actor on Wednesday’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show, asks: “Will you have more? Should I ask that question?”
Affleck’s response: “You know … sure, I would love to.”
“Many? A lot?” DeGeneres wonders aloud, prompting Affleck to say, “Okay, let’s back it up there.”
Suggesting, however, that “some people” would want “five or six” kids and would “love to have a large family,” DeGeneres is told by Affleck: “I think I should probably talk to my wife before I talk to you.”
As for his hiatus from film work, Affleck tells the TV host: “I took about a couple of years off, definitely for a full year I didn’t do anything and I did this (the period drama Hollywoodland), and then the rest of the time I spent directing a movie” – the Boston detective drama Gone, Baby, Gone, to be released next year.
Affleck says he purposefully took time off because, “I was a little bit exhausted of myself and my life, so I wanted to try to control it or manage it.”
He says he wanted to figure out for himself who he is and what he wants to do instead if “looking through the reflection through a magazine or being defined by somebody else.”
And what did he discover about stepping back to take a look? “It was good for me and good things happened for me. It was nice.”
Ellen,
I could use some help. My nephew has been fighting cancer since he was four ( leukemia.) He had bone marrow transplant at thirteen (his brother was donor.)Last year at twenty-six it was back in his kidney. The kidney was removed/ more chemo. This year its back again-kidney area, liver and now two spots in the lung. He is being treated at Cardinal Glennon childrens hospital in St. Louis. He loves working on cars, but he can’t do that now. He would like his (1966?) Lincoln on the Overhaulin show. Application was sent & pictures also. I don’t know how to exedite process. Josh is a fighter but the prognosis unsure. Thank you!!
Sincerely,
Lisa Fischer
Comment by Lisa Fischer — March 29, 2008 @ 7:42 am