Ben Affleck ordered to stop mouthing stars' lines
Hollywood star-turned-director Ben Affleck has been ordered to stop mouthing actors' lines from behind the camera after Blake Lively and Jeremy Renner caught him out.
Affleck has stepped behind the scenes in recent years to direct movies including Gone Baby Gone and new drama Argo, and he has picked up a bad habit of miming the lines as his actors are working.
He has now revealed Lively and Renner, who both starred in his 2010
thriller The Town, caught him and ordered him to stop distracting
them.
Affleck tells New York Post gossip column Page Six, "(It) is a
rather unfortunate tendency... I sometimes will slightly lip-move
along with the lines of the actors. The first time I did that was
on The Town. During one of Jeremy Renner's close-ups, he was like,
'Can I talk to you for a second? You're mouthing my lines.' It was
like, 'OK, I'll stop doing that.' Then Blake said I did it to
her... It's a problem, and I'm working on it."
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, who appears in Affleck's latest
film Argo, admits he was also distracted by his director's bad
habit, adding, "(In a scene) at the end, I could see (Affleck)
mouthing my lines. I went, 'You are doing the thing.'... He gets so
into (it) that he mouths."