Ben Affleck says he had one line in the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' movie and his delivery was 'so bad' they dubbed over his voice
- Ben Affleck said his line in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was dubbed over with someone else's voice.
- He said on "The Late Late Show with James Corden," he found out when he saw the film in theaters.
Ben Affleck may be an Academy Award-nominated actor, but it turns out that some of his performances haven't been up to scratch.
While the "Air" director and star has never been cut from a film across his four-decade-spanning career, he said that his turn in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was "so bad" it had to be dubbed over with someone else's voice.
The actor shared his "humiliating" experience as an uncredited extra in the 1992 film while appearing on "The Late Late Show with James Corden."
Affleck explained that he was cast as a basketball player in "the opus that inspired" the television series of the same name starring Sarah Michelle Geller as the titular teenage heroine. Kristy Swanson played the title character in the movie.
"One of my earlier parts — I had just moved out to L.A. — I got a line in a movie for a basketball player," Affleck recalled. "It was a small film called 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'"
The "Justice League" star said he had a single line of dialogue in the movie during a basketball game scene in which a werewolf or a vampire approaches him on the court and his character cowardly hands him the ball.
"I said, 'Take the ball!' or something like that. I thought my work was good. I was feeling it," he said. "I felt authentically afraid."
However, Affleck said that he was asked to run the scene "a bunch of times," something he put down to director Fran Rubel Kuzui being "really rigorous."
It wasn't until he went to check out the movie in theaters that he discovered that his delivery wasn't up to par.
"I went and saw the movie with some friends," the actor said. "And I sounded very different."
He continued: "And I realized right then that they rerecorded my lines. It was so bad, they needed me to be in the scene but the director was just like, 'I can't hear the voice again!'"
"They had to pay someone to come in and say, 'Hey man, take it.' Because apparently, I couldn't say that convincingly enough."
After host James Corden showed the scene in question to audiences, Affleck joked that the dubbed voice "sounds like Chris Tucker," his "Air" costar.