- Here’s a nifty little story that came off the AP wire today:
NEW YORK (AP) – Ben Affleck never went hunting for superstardom.
And his starring role in this summer’s big-action movie “Armageddon” isn’t a big sellout, he says in the July issue of Details magazine.
“I just wanted to do something different, something like ‘Star Wars’,” Affleck says.
He will test his mettle as an action figure in the role of A.J. Frost, a wildcat oil driller who spars with co-star Bruce Willis and tries to save the world from a fiery collision with an asteroid.
Affleck, who became known as an “indie” star after 1997’s “Chasing Amy” and teamed with screenwriting partner Matt Damon to write and star in the Academy Award-winning “Good Will Hunting”, remains low-key despite being tagged a Hollywood superstar.
“My ambition was never to be famous,” he says. “I always thought of that as a somewhat undesirable quality.”
