Steven Spielberg refused to work with Ben Affleck over ‘long-standing feud’

Legendary director Steven Spielberg has labored with all of them, together with the greats like Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, and Daniel Day-Lewis. However apparently, due to an alleged ‘pool battle’ incident, he didn’t need to faucet Ben Affleck.

Considered one of many biggest filmmakers of all time, Spielberg, 79, has a stocked trophy cabinet, consisting of three Oscars and 4 Golden Globes, amongst different gongs.

He’s the brains behind the Jurassic Park sequence, introduced Schindler’s Listing to life, and his subsequent effort, Disclosure Day, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, and Colin Firth, is coming to the silver display subsequent summer season.

Marvel’s Wyatt Russell, Colman Domingo, and The Inbetweeners’ Henry Lloyd-Hughes are additionally within the sci-fi flick.

However have you learnt one actor who isn’t starring within the upcoming Spielberg function? Ben Affleck.

Apparently, the father-of-seven as soon as handed on a undertaking starring the 53-year-old Good Will Looking actor, claiming he ‘couldn’t do it’ if he was hooked up. Properly, that’s according to Reign Over Me filmmaker Mike Binder, anyhow.

Binder, 67, made the jaw-dropping allegation on a latest episode of Stephen Baldwin’s One Unhealthy Film podcast.

The story goes that Spielberg was focused on approaching board for 2006’s Man About City, which stars Affleck as Hollywood expertise agent Jack Giamoro.

“He mentioned, ‘We gotta do one thing collectively. I would like you to put in writing one thing for me’,” the Jaws favorite reportedly instructed Binder.

The comic recalled: “We make a deal that he’s gonna do it, we shake palms, he’ll do it.”

However issues allegedly took a flip when Affleck signed on for the lead function.

“No. Can’t do it with him,” Spielberg allegedly said.

“We simply bombed with a film with him, he’s obtained that complete J. Lo [Jennifer Lopez] factor occurring now, and I’ve different issues with him.”

In accordance to the New York Submit, the star could have been referring to Gigli, the 2003 field workplace bomb that starred Affleck and Lopez amid their first romance.

The pair would later change into engaged earlier than breaking off their relationship in 2004. The previous flames later reunited and married in 2022 earlier than finalising their divorce in early 2025.

Binder instructed that the ‘different issues’ that Spielberg reportedly had with The Odyssey star stemmed from a pool occasion.

“My son was a bit boy, he was enjoying within the pool, and he obtained out of the pool, and Ben got here in totally dressed, and my son pushed Ben into the pool,” Spielberg reportedly instructed Binder.

“And Ben obtained actually mad at him, and he got here out of the pool and picked him up and threw him again into the pool, and made my son cry.”

When questioned additional, he allegedly instructed his good friend: “I simply don’t wish to work with him. Plus his final two films bombed. Discover anyone else. Anybody however him.”

Binder claimed he instructed Affleck that the undertaking wouldn’t be going forward with him, to which the father-of-three allegedly replied: “Did Steven Spielberg inform you I threw his child within the water? Is that what occurred? Is that why I’m not in your film?”

Man About City was ultimately launched, with Binder and Affleck on the helm. In the USA, it was launched direct-to-DVD.

LADbible has contacted representatives of Steven Spielberg and Ben Affleck for additional remark.