Filmmaker Mike Binder spilled the beans on Steven Spielberg and actor Ben Affleck.
"He said, ‘We gotta do something together. I want you to write something for me,'” Binder said of Spielberg on a recent episode of Stephen Baldwin’s One Bad Movie podcast. "At the time, we both lived up in the Palisades, and we were talking about power and struggles."
From there, Man About Town was born and Spielberg was planning on directing the film—until he found out that Affleck was involved. "We make a deal that he’s gonna do it, we shake hands, he’ll do it," Binder said of his conversation with Affleck. "I call Steven, Steven says, ‘No. Can’t do it with him. We just bombed a movie with him, he’s got that whole J.Lo thing going on now, and I have other problems with him.'"
"'My son was a little boy, he was playing in the pool, and he got out of the pool, and Ben came in fully dressed, and my son pushed Ben into the pool,'" Spielberg allegedly told Binder. "'And Ben got really mad at him, and he came out of the pool and picked him up and threw him back into the pool, and made my son cry.'"
Binder claims that Spielberg wanted no part of directing Affleck due that particular incident. Moreover, Spielberg allegedly told Binder that he wasn't interested in making a movie with Affleck because "his last two movies bombed."
And so Spielberg didn't direct Man About Town, but Affleck starred in the straight-to-DVD movie. However, years later, Spielberg and Affleck appeared to be on good terms, letting the past stay in the past.
Binder recalled a moment between Spielberg and Affleck hugging at the Academy Awards in 2013.
"I text him, I’m watching on the air, I go, 'Ben, tonight you could throw Spielberg’s whole family in the pool and get away with it.' About an hour later, the phone rings, it’s Affleck at the Academy. He goes, ‘That made me laugh so f*****’ hard.'"
"I love both these guys, and they’re both smarter than me, but they both kinda acted like idiots, and so did I. They were great guys, but at the same time, a*******," Binder told Baldwin.
To this day, Affleck has not starred in a film directed by Spielberg.
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