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Ben Affleck Reveals Tom Brady’s Role in ‘Greatest Day’ of His Life—Aside From Children’s Births

Ben Affleck has been making the media rounds of late to promote his new film The Accountant 2, the sequel to a movie from nearly a decade ago that was very popular among fans and one that again also stars the great Jon Bernthal.

After Affleck dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week and subsequently shared that his three teenage children routinely roast him for his questionable movie roles, noting that 13-year-old son Samuel called Armageddon “stupid,” his April 30 appearance on the New Heights podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce held a completely different vibe.

This one was all about the 52-year-old Affleck and how Tom Brady once delivered him the greatest day of his life—aside from the births of his film-critiquing children, of course.

After finding himself vacationing in the same spot as Brady, the Oscar-winning actor would soon find himself having a catch with the legendary NFL star, widely considered to be the greatest quarterback of all time.

“I don’t know if they have a name,” Affleck began after Jason Kelce asked him what type of routes Brady had him running. “But like, I’m sure I disgraced every receiver that’s ever run a route, but to this day, aside from the birth of my children that was the greatest day of my life.”

So go ahead and toss aside that Academy Award he won in 1998 for Good Will Hunting because apparently the only tosses that matter to Affleck are football passes from “TB12,” the man responsible for bringing six Super Bowl titles to the actor’s favorite NFL team, the New England Patriots.

Affleck went on to deliver the details of what clearly proved to be the peak moment of that fateful day.

“The greatest moment of that experience was he’s like ‘Okay, come here.’ I get to him and he’s like ‘It’s the Super Bowl, fourth quarter, we have 23 seconds, it’s fourth and 18,'” a fired-up Affleck explained.

With the table having properly been set, an increasingly energetic Affleck vividly described the result of his once-in-a-lifetime experience with an apparently equally intense Brady.

“It was amazing, dude,” Affleck continued. “He [Brady] goes ‘And just run straight, don’t turn around, I’m gonna get you the ball in the end zone.'”

Related: Tom Brady Reveals Striking New Watch After Sporting $740,000 Timepiece at Super Bowl

“And I’m wondering, when’s this ball going to show up? And I look, I just feel like right out in front of me. And it was a little far for me, I think he probably adjusted back and it was still not far back enough, you know what I mean? And I reach out and I have to go arms [fully] extended, I f—— catch the ball.”

After a hilariously enthusiastic “Let’s go!” celebratory reaction from Jason Kelce, Affleck went on to say he called everybody he knew after making the seemingly improbable catch and referred to what was obviously a special moment in time with Brady as “the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for me, and I lived a full life of dreams.”

Now, there are lots of people who enjoy sports and then there are sports fans like Ben Affleck who mark a chance encounter with Tom Brady and a football as such a significantly everlasting life experience that it officially takes a backseat only to the birth of his children.

The Accountant 2 released in theaters nationwide on April 25 and currently holds outstanding reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Related: Ben Affleck Shares Funny Story About His Kids Roasting His Movies

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Author: Tim Ryan

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‘MobLand’ Star Annie Cooper Unpacks Her Character’s Shocking Fate

The stakes of MobLand are now officially explosive. In the fifth episode of the twisty Paramount+ crime drama, the very end revealed an event that will almost certainly redefine the entire trajectory of the series. But how did we get here? And does the shocking ending of Episode 5 really mean the end for one specific character? Actress Annie Cooper, who plays Vron — the matriarch of the Stevenson family — tells Men’s Journal that because she’s such a fan of Guy Ritchie, that even if this is the end, “Doing this show was a dream.” Spoilers ahead. 

At the end of “Funeral for a Friend,” despite Richie Stevenson’s (Geoff Bell) stern warning to Conrad (Pierce Brosnan) and the Harrigans, it seems that some semblance of peace between the two crime families has been achieved. Harry (Tom Hardy) and Kevin (Paddy Considine) didn’t need to start shooting, and nobody pulled the pin of a grenade. And yet, in the final moments, when Vron (Cooper) gets into her car, it explodes. It seems Maeve (Helen Mirren) has exacted her revenge on the Stevensons, almost right after the delicate truce was struck.

“She was playing with fire, right?” Cooper tells Men’s Journal. “But yeah, an explosive ending for Vron to say the least. But she did give Maeve a piece of her mind before the end.”

Cooper also reveals that it wasn’t always clear to her at what point in the story her character would walk into an exploding car, and she’s loath to confirm if her character is indeed and in fact dead. “I mean, did she survive? I don’t know.”

Related: Review: ‘MobLand’ Gives Tom Hardy His Best Role Yet

At this point in the series, it’s easy to see the Stevensons as the victims of the cruelty of the Harrigans, even if the Harrigans are, in theory, the family we’re supposed to be rooting for. “I love Vron, she’s the matriarch of the Stevenson family, and she is tough,” Cooper says. “She is assertive and she’s unfazed by violence. But, it doesn’t get worse than her situation at this point. She’s just lost her only son, and it’s also having one of the Harrigans having something to do with it; it’s bad blood.”

Cooper also points out that just because it seems that her character has just been blown up in a car bomb, there are a million ways she could still appear, even if Vron has been deceased. TV shows tend to have flashbacks, meaning there could be plenty more that we might see of Vron before the end.

And with five more episodes left in MobLand, there are still quite a few twists left in the series, and Cooper hints it only gets more intese from this point out.

“I mean, it would be nice to have seen a bit more of her in action, right?” Cooper says. “So let’s see what happens.”

MobLand drops new episodes on Sundays on Paramount+.

Related: Exclusive: ‘MobLand’ Photos Reveal Pierce Brosnan and Tom Hardy’s Next Must-Watch Crime Show

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Author: Ryan Britt