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The Oscar winner’s first commercial gig was almost a royal scandal.
For a brief moment in 1989,Ben Affleckwas the Burger King.
A 17-year-old Ben Affleck in a Burger King commercial.Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images; Burger King
But, as he confessed onThe Drew Barrymore Show, he came close to losing that crown.
“I don’t remember the similar enthusiasm at the time.”
(A phone in your car!
Viewers at the time were agog.)
A quick-thinking Jeff replies in the affirmative and agrees to bring her a chef’s salad.
But before they can make good on their meet-cute, the car phone rings again.
It’s Jeff’s dad summoning him home.
Affleck told Barrymore that he has a few memories of filming the ad.
I remember he asked me, ‘Do you know how to drive, kid?'"
“I was like, ‘Yeah I know how to drive.’
They were like, ‘Are you sure?’
I was like, ‘Guys, I’ve driven five hundred or a thousand miles.'”
To see greatness in the making, you’re free to watch Affleck’s Burger King commercial below.
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