Ben Affleck found playing basketball harder than playing an addict in his new movie 'The Way Back'

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Ben Affleck found playing basketball harder than playing an addict in his new movie 'The Way Back'
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Ben Affleck’s steeper learning curve was with the basketball, not the bottle.

in 2018 after announcing he'd completed a stint in rehab. "Because of that, one is never really in or out of treatment."

“The greatest fiction of this movie is that at any time I was a great basketball star in high school,” Affleck jokes to USA TODAY. “I am not a great athlete; never been my thing. I mean, I can hit a little bit; I can play a little baseball, but I’ve always been interested in acting and that’s kind of what I’ve dedicated my time to.”

“We spent a lot of time” teaching Affleck basketball, O’Connor says. “I used to bring Ben down to the practices and in the beginning, he was very reserved. …So getting him up to speed with , that to me was more challenging than .”

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