Casey Affleckis apologizing for his actions.
“I behaved in a way and allowed others to behave in a way that was really unprofessional,” Affleck, 42,told the APabout his behavior on the set of 2010’sI’m Still Here. “And I’m sorry.”
Affleck, who next appears inThe Old Man & the Gun, admitted the “environment” on theI’m Still Hereset was “unprofessional.”
“The buck had to stop with me being one of the producers, and I have to accept responsibility for that, and that was a mistake,” he continued. “And I contributed to that unprofessional environment, and I tolerated that kind of behavior from other people, and I wish that I hadn’t. And I regret a lot of that.”
Addressing the lawsuits brought against him, Affleck said he wished he’d found a way to “resolve things in a different way.”
“I had never had any complaints like that made about me before in my life, and it was really embarrassing,” he added. “I didn’t know how to handle it, and I didn’t agree with everything, the way I was being described, and the things that were said about me, but I wanted to try to make it right, so we made it right in the way that was asked at the time.”
Asked about his thoughts on the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements that combat sexual harassment in the workplace and beyond, Affleck said he’s “been listening a lot to this conversation, this public conversation, and learned a lot.”
“I think it was the right thing to do just given everything that was going on in our culture at the moment,” Affleck told the AP. “Andhaving two incredible women[Jodie FosterandJennifer Lawrence] go present the Best Actress award felt like the right thing.”
He said that he wants his sons withex-wifeSummer Phoenix, Indiana and Atticus, to learn from his past. “Well, I’ve taken these lessons with me that I’ve learned not just to work but to home and as dad, and it informs how you parent,” Affleck commented. “I have two boys, so I want to be in a world where grown men model compassion and decency and also contrition when it’s called for, and I certainly tell them to own their mistakes when they make them.”
source: people.com
