My kids like to get in to my phone and change all my contact names, usually to insult each other. The other night, my daughter accused me of listing her contact as “Mt. Poopface Summit,” followed by a serious of emojis. I was about to defend myself when she acquitted me because, “oh wait, the emojis make sense so Mom didn’t write this.” Look, it’s hard for some of us. Just ask Ben Affleck, whose kids also let him know how inept he is flinging emojis. Apparently, 14-year-old Violet calls him out on his inability to text with emojis and quite honestly, I feel ya’, Ben.
Ben Affleck‘s daughter Violet likes poking fun at her dad!
At the Miami screening of The Way Back on Tuesday, Affleck — who plays a high school basketball coach struggling to keep his life together in the movie — shared that his 14-year-old daughter with ex-wife Jennifer Garner likes to “tease” him over his use of emojis and group chat ability.
When asked if he uses emojis, the 47-year-old actor said he’s “learning a lot” about “everything that’s going on.”
“My daughter is so funny, she teases me, she’s 14 and she’s like ‘Why do they let you on this group chat? You don’t know what you’re talking about. Don’t pretend you have any idea what’s going on,’” Affleck said his daughter told to him after she discovered he was in a group chat with his younger costars.
“Then she’s like, ‘What are they saying on the group chat?’ which is only appropriate very rarely for my daughter, but it’s a lot of fun. It’s a way to stay in touch. It’s fun.”
Earlier in the interview, Affleck’s costar Melvin Gregg revealed that the star had asked him to add him to a group chat with The Way Back cast.
“I remember the last day, we were all saying goodbye — we did a huddle thing, ‘Hazel on three!’ and we were talking about a group chat and Ben was like ‘add me to the group chat.’” Gregg said.
“I’m trying to get a little cooler,” Affleck interjected, jokingly adding “What is this group chat thing?”
I was trying to find his The Way Back co-stars’ ages (the high school players) and they seem to be late 20s, early 30s. I should think Ben could keep up with that age group. It’s Violet’s friends who would likely smoke him. I’m not going to rag on Ben for trying to get in with the young’uns because he admits that’s what he’s trying to do, “get a little cooler.” However, I have no doubt those young men have a group chat with Ben and one without. But bless them for letting the old fart have the one, at least.
As for Violet, I want her for my life coach and make, “don’t pretend you have any idea what’s going on,” my new mantra. I could just see her holding the phone up and forcing Ben to translate it as if he’s trying to break code. Actually communicating in emoji is next level. I’ve become quite adept at a well-placed thumbs up, but that’s it. Violet would be sickened by my incompetence. Maybe Ben is trying to become fluent in emoji because of his buddy Tom Brady. Ben told ESPN that he and Matt Damon reached out to Brady via text to find out what his plans were as far as playing, staying, or going and that Brady responded with, “ 🤷♂ “.
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It’s too bad he’s such a revolting piece of sh*t, his new movie sound interesting.
They’re children seem very well adjusted. Addiction is a terrible thing and can have long lasting effects on family and friends, especially children. I’m glad that Ben and Jen say they try to be as open and honest with their children as they possibly can be. I’m in recovery, and had lost the love and support of those around me. It was well into my drinking career that I learned that alcoholism runs in my family and my father, grandfather, aunt, and others all suffered from the same disease. I wish someone had talked to me about their struggles. Perhaps I wouldn’t have gone so far down the rabbit hole and pulled myself out when I started to notice the effects that drinking was having on me and those around me. Of course, they are not to blame, nor am I (i finally understand that), but I wish they had have been open and honest with me when I was younger. Ben looks great, his children seem very happy (and like normal children) and I love that they seem to be co-parenting so well. All the best to this lovely family.
just want to send you all best wishes in your recovery, thanks for sharing.
jay and silent bob!
my nieces are teaching their Grandad (my dad) all sorts of shortcuts, like the basic ty for thank you. it’s funny to get texts from my dad with teen-speak. lol
I didn’t know ty was for thank you. I though ThQ and thx were the abbreviations for thank you. Huh. And I have a “Texting Dictionary of Acronyms”….sometimes so I can understand us, right here!! LOL
I just, just figured out yesterday that IIRC means If I Recall Correctly! Somehow I conflated it and read it as ‘Isn’t Real Life Confusing’… Someone here used it in a discussion about Sussexit, and it suddenly made sense to me! I have since pulled the texting dictionary off the shelf and put it right beside my computer, because obviously I don’t know as much as I thought I had already learned!!!
At least he seems to be an involved dad and apparently loves talking about his kids! I love that!
He always has an anecdote ready about the kids when he’s promoting something. Such a POS. I hope his movie flops.
I cannot believe how supportive everyone is of Ben. He harassed or assaulted THREE WOMEN (that we know of) in public. No amount of cute anecdote about his daughters is going to change that.
@Sarah When in the throes of addiction, we do some dumb, ugly, stupid stuff. We MUST allow people to learn and grow from their mistakes. If you throw at me a mistake I made 6 years ago…well, yes, I did make that mistake, comment, whatever. And I learned……. hard life lessons, that needed to be learnt. So if I am not allowed to move on from that enormous error in judgement, does that mean I am forced to live in the mindset of a 59 year old, not allowed to learn and grow?
I reject that premise for me, so I needs must reject the premise for Ben.
Violet is 14?! My how time flies!
Raya’s #1 customer knows his way around tech, trust.
I’m very happy my 29yo and my 22yo still want me to hang. Their girlfriends are always begging to take me dancing lol. I should be flattered and just go, but I’ve held back. Now, my 14yo? Way too much time has passed for me to hang with teens. And I wouldn’t want to. Like ever lol. Besides, they’re usually having world wars in our living room on Xbox. Between machine gun fire, tactical yelling and bombs, I’m out of sight. With headphones on. He does like to cook with me, so we have that. As for texting and online crap, I’m normally the one always on. Trying and using new apps. Reading articles about new tech and pining for the lastest thing lol. My husband, however, he’s the major dork in the family. He’s stuck in the 70s and 80s. It took forever for me to make him go smartphone and tablet. FOREVER. He’s only recently been enjoying texting me gifs 😂.
my dear mom still thinks lol is for lots of love, “sorry for your loss, lol”, I feel mean but it’s just too funny to correct…
Why do they still keep hiring this liability? I keep seeing headlines of him regretting his divorce so I guess he has decided to play the wistful ex husband for this promo tour while still messing around with his Raya chicks, Ana de Armas and other side pieces.