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Envelope Directors Roundtable: Ben Affleck on being an actor-director

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It’s no surprise that as a director, veteran actor Ben Affleck has some ideas about how to get a good performance from his cast; he’s been in enough movies to see how other directors do it.

But how much freedom should you give actors and how do you earn their trust?

There are no easy answers, according to the panelists at the Envelope Directors Roundtable, which included Affleck (‘The Town’), David Fincher (‘The Social Network’), Lisa Cholodenko (‘The Kids Are All Right’), Ethan Coen (‘True Grit’), Darren Aronofsky (‘Black Swan’) and Tom Hooper (‘The King’s Speech’).

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