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The actor will report on the area's humanitarian crisis for Nightline . Ben Affleck is expanding his horizons--literally. The actor has signed up to join Nightline as a special correspondent reporting on the humanitarian crisis in the...
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Ben Affleck heads to the Congo
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... celebrity or because they want to see the celebrity kind of make a fool of himself, then so be it.”
He doesn’t act as a reporter, Nightline executive producer James Goldston says, but rather presents the story as a personal journey, following Affleck as he met with survivors of the conflict, relief officials and even some warlords.
”I was quite persuaded by how candid he was about the cliche of it, or the potential cliche,” Goldston said
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