The mood on the set of “Armageddon,” it turns out, was just as apocalyptic as the movie. A revealing audio clip of star Ben Affleck from the DVD commentary of the 1998 summer blockbuster has …
fiery director Michael Bay told him to “shut the f—k up” when he started asking too many questions about the disaster film’s implausible plot.
“I asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the f—k up,” said Affleck, who was just 25 years old when “Armageddon” hit theaters. “’You know, Ben, just shut up, OK? You know, this is a real plan,’” Affleck, now 51, recalled Bay saying. “I was like, ‘You mean it’s a real plan at NASA to train oil drillers?’ And he was like, ‘Just shut your mouth!’”
In “Armageddon,” a Texas-size asteroid is hurtling toward earth and the US government decides to send a deep-core oil driller, played by Bruce Willis, and his blue-collar employees into space to install a bomb to blow it to smithereens. Steve Buscemi, Will Patton, Bruce Willis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ben Affleck, Owen Wilson head to outer space in 1998’s “Armageddon.”Notably, the screenplay was an early-career effort from J.J. Abrams, who would go on to direct “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” 17 years later.
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