Affleck concluded by joking: “I didn’t have to do research for the alcoholism aspect of the movie – that was covered.
“I’m a recovering alcoholic and I played an alcoholic in the movie,” Affleck said, adding that while alcoholism itself is not “inherently super interesting”, it is what people discover about themselves in the course of recovery that he finds fascinating. He said: “So yes, I’m an alcoholic.
Mank, out now on Netflix, tells the story of Herman Mankiewicz, the Hollywood screenwriter who was involved in developing the script for Orson Welles’ seminal 1941 film Citizen Kane.
Speaking to Sacha Baron Cohen, Delroy Lindo, Gary Oldman, John David Washington and Steven Yeun for a Hollywood Reporter article, Affleck spoke candidly about being a recovering alcoholic and how that informed his latest role, The Way Back.