Ben Affleck took a blast against paparazzi photographers at the Venice Film Festival.

Reuters reports that the actor, who was in Venice to promote his new film, “Hollywoodland,” took aim the photographers during a news conference.

“I think more and more people pay attention to actors’ private lives (and that) makes it difficult to suspend disbelief when you are going to watch their movie because really what you are thinking about is whatever you have read about them in a magazine rather than the performance they are giving, and it makes the actor’s job harder. The movies become incidental pit-stops and commercial breaks in the soap opera of their life,” Affleck said.

However, it seems not every actor agrees with Affleck.

When asked how he felt about the intrusions, Ethan Hawke said, “If the paparazzi are bothering you, it probably means you are having a pretty wonderful life.”






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