Interview: Ben Affleck discusses “Argo”

Actor-director Ben Affleck in a movie still from “Argo,” based on true events. “You could never imagine it happening,” actor-director Ben Affleck said of the true but hard-to-believe plot of his new movie “Argo.” The tense thriller tells the story of Americans who were spirited out of Iran following the 1979 revolution by a CIA operative posing as a filmmaker. “Argo” is the name of the fake film that was never made, but that provided the cover necessary for the escape. “I hope people leave with a sense of national pride,” Affleck told… >>
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