Ben Affleck Talks Being a Child Actor

Ben Affleck has actually been acting for most of his life, and this week he sat down on The Tonight Show and talked to Jimmy Fallon about his time as a child actor. He actually seems grateful that he didn’t make it big until later.

“I did do some child acting. Luckily I didn’t end up on a show and get famous and go on crack and get crazy. I had a normal childhood. My mother let me go do this thing and then forced me to come home. It was a PBS series called Voyage of the Mimi. It was for kids. Educational, kind of…You’re laughing, but it’s not a joke! It combined science and math topics with an interesting adventure that a young man took with scientists. I still feel like I have to pitch it!”

Ben went on to say that while he had a good time doing it, he would not want his kids working in the business from a young age. He has said in the past:

“I would do whatever I could to discourage that. My kids have enough issues of being exposed in ways that I don’t want them to be exposed, in magazines and shows and stuff.”