Ben Affleck Reveals Why the FBI Really Visited His House

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Why the FBI Visited Ben Affleck’s House Amid Los Angeles Wildfires

Ben Affleck opened his ain investigation—into himself.

After the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) visited his location amid the Los Angeles fires Jan. 11—making headlines astir the world—the Argo actor admitted adjacent helium was shocked by the reports.

“As it turns out, the FBI did, successful fact, sojourn my house,” Ben explained to GQ successful an nonfiction published March 25. “I travel location and I spot there’s a communicative with sources that say, ‘Hey, the FBI was astatine your house,’ I’m like, ‘Well, this is strange.’”

The 52-year-old—who shares kids Violet, 19, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 13, with ex Jennifer Garner—detailed that portion helium recovered retired astir the sojourn from the news, helium made a constituent to get to the bottommost of the issue.

“I telephone them and say, ‘Hey, FBI, were you astatine my house? Do you privation to speech to me?’” Ben recalled, noting the archetypal operators helium spoke to didn’t cognize wherefore his location was visited. “Finally idiosyncratic who is really liable for what was happening was like, ‘Oh, we had nary thought that was your house.’”

Apparently, Ben is neighbors with a national authoritative who had his location breached into amid the Los Angeles fires and paparazzi conscionable truthful happened to seizure FBI members questioning adjacent residents.

“So, the FBI went astir and whoever lived there, the FBI rang their bell, but due to the fact that determination are photographers sitting extracurricular and these guys person their FBI jackets on, past it’s: ‘The FBI has visited your house,’” Ben explained. “You’ve seen this lawsuit astir the FBI astatine my house. I had nary idea. My lone engagement was to way it down, fig it out.”

And Ben besides went connected to dispel erstwhile reports from the FBI themselves, who told E! News successful a January statement they were “conducting enactment successful the country of the Palisades occurrence comparative to unauthorized drone activity.”

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“Turns out, no, it wasn’t astir that,” Ben added. “In fact, we were precise acold from wherever the drone was.”

Of course, that is acold from the lone misconception Ben has faced successful his decades-long career. Another 1 helium jokingly dispelled? That his pal Matt Damon has the wicked smarts of his Will Hunting counterpart successful their 1997 movie Good Will Hunting.

As Ben joked, “Matt’s mathematics skills, I americium beauteous sure, are precise acold from genius level.”

Unfortunately, oregon not, Ben has a akin acquisition erstwhile it comes to his Chuckie Sullivan character.

“What I didn’t recognize erstwhile we made that movie was that everybody who saw that movie would much oregon little presume that we were those characters,” helium added to GQ. “It was precise casual to person radical since it was the archetypal clip they saw maine that that was precisely who I was.”

One happening that is close erstwhile it comes to their Good Will Hunting characters, though, is the existent relationship displayed betwixt Ben and Matt successful the film.

Keep speechmaking for the pals’ astir iconic—and real—moments passim their careers…

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Hometown Kids

Damon and Affleck share a country arsenic troubled genius Will and his devoted puerility pal Chuckie successful their breakout hit Good Will Hunting, which was nominated for 9 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Damon, Best Supporting Actor for Robin Williams and Best Original Screenplay.

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Made It

Awards play heats up successful 1998 arsenic Ben and Matt locomotion the carpet astatine the Golden Globes, celebrating Good Will Hunting's 4 nominations.

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Hey, We Won!

Affleck and Damon airs with their archetypal Golden Globes, Best Screenplay for Good Will Hunting. Affleck won another, successful 2013, for directing Argo, and Damon won successful 2016, Best Performance by an Actor successful a Motion Picture, Musical oregon Comedy, for The Martian.

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Thank You, Boston!

Best Original Screenplay winners Affleck and Damon marque definite to springiness a shout-out to their formative hometown, which helped animate the first-ever movie they wrote together, Good Will Hunting.

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Golden Men

Damon and Affleck relish their Oscar triumph successful 1998.

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Prettiest Gals successful the Room

Affleck and Damon amusement disconnected their Oscar nighttime dates—moms Chris Affleck and Nancy Carlsson-Paige—in 1998.

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For Laughs

Damon and Affleck teamed up arsenic fallen angels Loki and Bartleby successful Kevin Smith's 1999 comedy Dogma.

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Just a Couple of Dudes

Matt and Ben formal down successful Miami Beach successful 2006.

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Super Men

Damon supports his buddy successful 2006 at a screening of Hollywoodland, successful which Affleck played George Reeves, the tragic histrion who played Superman successful the 1950s-era TV series.

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Date Night

Both pals got joined successful 2005, and in 2008 they enjoyed a nighttime retired each unneurotic successful Miami Beach. Affleck and Jennifer Garner, who person 3 children together, divided up successful 2015 and yet divorced successful 2018. Damon and wife Luciana, parents of 4 daughters, will observe 15 years of matrimony successful December 2020.

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Same Old, Same Old

Matt and Ben bent out, 'cause that's what they do.

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You Earned It, Buddy

Naturally, Affleck was among the stars who feted (and roasted) Damon portion presenting him with the American Cinematheque Award successful 2010.

"I benignant of started retired astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the guy, truthful this is simply a peculiar nighttime for me, too," Ben quipped.

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Best Buds

They ever look acceptable for a marathon poker tournament.

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Creative Control

The chums observe the instrumentality aft 10 years of Project Greenlight, their HBO bid astir bringing indie films to fruition, successful 2014.

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Family Matter

Affleck is connected manus to enactment member Casey Affleck and honorary member Damon astatine the 2014 premiere of Manchester by the Sea, which Affleck and Damon co-produced and for which Casey would spell connected to triumph the Oscar for Best Actor (and hide to convey Ben, which turned into a full comic thing).

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The Good Shepherds

Affleck and Damon are connected manus to support Project Greenlight's play 4 winner, The Leisure Class, astatine the film's 2015 premiere.

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Good Will Reading

Affleck and Damon reprised their roles arsenic Chuckie and Will for a unrecorded speechmaking of Good Will Hunting in 2016, and enlisted immoderate of their talented friends to beryllium in, including John Krasinski, who narrated; Emily Blunt playing Skylar; Keegan-Michael Key arsenic Billy; and Margo Martindale filling the mighty shoes of the precocious Robin Williams arsenic Dr. Maguire.

Wingman

Damon celebrates Affleck landing the Caped Crusader cowl in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and ensuing DC Universe films, 20 years aft some actors auditioned for and didn't get the relation of Robin back erstwhile Tim Burton was making Batman movies. (The sidekick yet showed up successful Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever.)

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We're Back!

Affleck and Damon reunite astatine the Oscars successful 2017 to contiguous the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, 19 years aft their momentous win.

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Wait, What?

And present they are looking arsenic amazed arsenic anybody to spot that Moonlight was the existent Best Picture victor alternatively of La La Land.

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Sporting Scene

Matt and Ben bask a nighttime retired with chap Boston sports seed Bill Simmons.

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What Curse?

The lifelong Red Sox fans got affectional celebrating their team's 2018 World Series title.

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Buona Sera

Affleck and Damon deed the 2021 Venice Film Festival successful enactment of The Last Duel, their archetypal screenwriting collaboration since Good Will Hunting.

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Slam Dunk

The Artists Equity co-founders observe the March 2023 premiere of Air at SXSW, the archetypal movie from their caller studio. The feel-good existent communicative stars Damon as Nike rep Sonny Vaccaro, the visionary who got a just-drafted Michael Jordan to motion with the footwear institution successful 1984 by convincing the aboriginal NBA superstar's ma (Viola Davis) that they were the close acceptable for her son. Affleck plays Nike laminitis Phil Knight.

A bazillion pairs of Air Jordans sold later...

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Walking connected Air

In summation to co-starring and producing, Air marks Damon's archetypal clip acting with Affleck down the camera.

"He's a superb director, radical are aware," Damon gushed to E! News astir his pal astatine the film's L.A. premiere. "But it was truly large moving with him and I'm looking guardant to doing it again soon."