Role: George Reeves, Hollywoodland

Age: 34 Birthplace: Berkeley, California

“I think it’s vaguely flattering, but not entirely somehow,” Affleck says of folks who say this role is something of a comeback for him. “I hadn’t done a movie in two years in a conscious effort to just be away from everything, mostly paparazzi and the tabloid culture, with the idea if you just stop, maybe it will go away a little bit. I also made an effort to just kind of really examine what kind of actor I really want to be, and what kind of career I want to have. I was lucky that [Hollywoodland] was the first movie that I did after that, because I really like [it] and it would have been just as easy for it not to have worked. So in its simplest sense, I take it that that’s a sort of way of saying like, “Well, the guy’s last movie wasn’t very good, but this movie seems to be.’ So I don’t know if it’s a comeback. But I guess it’s an improvement.”