“Here’s a guy who’s trying to figure out—he wants to have a relationship with a woman,” Affleck said in an interview clip shared by Page Six. “He’s trying to figure out how to do that, how to put yourself out there.”
“He’s not comfortable extending himself,” he continued of his character. “He doesn’t really know how to flirt, exactly. He’s not comfortable, like so many of us.”
After all, the Argo director—who shares kids Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13, with ex Jennifer Garner—admitted that he had a lot to relearn in the realm of relationships and flirting.
“It’s not easy for anyone figuring out relationships,” the Good Will Hunting star noted, “particularly at the very early part, where you’re trying to gauge, ‘What does this signal mean? Is this person looking at me? Do they like me? Am I going to humiliate myself if I go over there?’”
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