The Natural Superiority Of British Actors?

- StudioBriefing, 14 May 1998



Good Will Hunting (1998)'s Ben Affleck has told an audience at
Oxford that British actors have an inherent advantage over
Americans in Hollywood. As reported Wednesday by BBC Radio 1,
Affleck remarked: "It doesn't matter if you're good. In America
if you're British you're just good. They just think that you're
smart and better than we are." The Radio 1 reporter said that
Affleck encountered heckling about Gwyneth Paltrow, who sat
beside him but refused to take questions. When he was asked,
"How do you get a girlfriend like Gwyneth?" he replied, "If you
work for Miramax, actually you get issued a girlfriend."