He shares three children with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
And Ben Affleck was spotted doing the school run with his daughter Seraphina, 11, and son Samuel, eight, in Los Angeles this Tuesday.
The 47-year-old movie star could be seen sharing an affectionate laugh with Seraphina, who was ready for her day with her backpack and lunchbox.
Family time: Ben Affleck was spotted doing the school run with his daughter Seraphina, 11, and son Samuel, eight, in Los Angeles this Tuesday
Off they go: The 47-year-old movie star could be seen sharing an affectionate laugh with Seraphina, who was ready for her day with her backpack and lunchbox
Ben threw a stylish olive green pea coat over a charcoal button-down shirt and slipped on a pair of chocolate brown trousers.
The father of three was carrying an iced beverage from Dunkin’ Donuts as he walked with his children down the sidewalk.
Ben and Jen, who have stayed amicable co-parents since their 2015 split, also share a 14-year-old daughter called Violet.
This Friday sees the release of his latest movie The Way Back, a high school sports drama in which he plays an alcoholic.
Stylish: The 47-year-old movie star threw a stylish olive green pea coat over a charcoal button-down shirt for his latest outing
Staying refreshed: The father of three was carrying an iced beverage from Dunkin’ Donuts as he walked with his children down the sidewalk
Family matters: Ben and Jen, who have stayed amicable co-parents since their 2015 split, also share a 14-year-old daughter called Violet
Ben himself has undergone multiple trips to rehab for drinking, most recently around the time shooting began for The Way Back.
‘He had to have a sober liaison that would bring him to set and that would bring him back from set,’ Ben’s co-star Will Ropp revealed to People.
According to Will: ‘Everybody was very transparent from the beginning that he was in rehab at the beginning of the film.’
Director Gavin O’Connor shared that Ben ‘had a breakdown’ while filming ‘probably the second take’ of a scene where his character tries to atone to his wife.
Incoming: This Friday sees the release of his latest movie The Way Back, a high school sports drama in which he plays an alcoholic
Drawn from life: Ben himself has undergone multiple trips to rehab for drinking, most recently around the time shooting began for The Way Back
‘I’m getting chills thinking about it. It was like the dam broke and everything came out. I just remember the crew, everyone was frozen, watching him bear his soul. It was obviously real. A lot of things that he probably had to say in his own life, or maybe he had said, I don’t know,’ Gavin told the Associated Press.
The director ultimately decided to include a trimmed version of the scene because the entirety ‘would be too hard for an audience to watch, too personal.’
Ben last went to rehab in August 2018 in the wake of his split from his longtime girlfriend, Saturday Night Live producer Lindsay Shookus.
‘It was obviously real’: Director Gavin O’Connor shared that Ben ‘had a breakdown’ while filming ‘probably the second take’ of a scene where his character tries to atone to his wife
On August 22 that year, Jennifer, armed with a sober coach and a Bible, is said to have staged an intervention at Ben’s house.
She was snapped passing a takeaway bag of Jack-In-The-Box to a red-faced Ben as she drove him to treatment for his drinking.
Shortly before that rehab stint, Ben was linked to Playmate Shauna Sexton, with whom he was spotted on dates to Nobu Malibu and Jack-In-The-Box.
Details: ‘He had to have a sober liaison that would bring him to set and that would bring him back from set,’ Ben’s co-star Will Ropp revealed to People
So sweet: Ben seemed to be thoroughly enjoying his quality time with his middle child
