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Ben Affleck Is Dunkin’s Newest Hire
The Oscar winner — and his wife J. Lo — are featured in a Dunkin’ commercial for the 2023 Super Bowl.
Ben Affleck’s love affair with Dunkin’ Donuts is coming full circle. The Oscar winner and frequent coffee drinker donned a headset and the company’s iconic black, orange and pink uniform to serve unsuspecting customers their morning brew in Massachusetts as part of a Super Bowl commercial.
Affleck can be seen in the spot manning the register, bantering while taking orders, and surprising customers once they finally pull up to the drive-thru window and are greeted by a famous face. He even sticks his head out of the window to take a selfie with a fan before one final customer shows up: J.Lo. “What are you doing here? Is this what you do when you say you’re going to work all day?” she asks a hapless Affleck.
The Boston native is known for his passion for coffee — mainly Dunkin’ Donuts. Images of him holding Dunks and looking stressed have become part of our Rolodex of memes. Affleck also got J. Lo running on Dunkin’ when she famously went to Dunks with Affleck in August.
On Super Bowl night, the commercial’s debut had Twitter emotional. “Ben Affleck’s Dunkin’ commercial was both wholly predictable and inevitable and... everything I wanted it to be,” The Hollywood Reporter TV critic Daniel Fienberg wrote.
Others, meanwhile, contrasted Affleck’s chipper demeanor at the drive-thru window with his dour appearance on Grammy night.
Unsuspecting customer Lisa McKay, who went by the Medford Dunkin’ for a routine coffee run when the commercial was filming, told NBC10 Boston that Affleck was “incredibly funny and quick-witted” when he took her coffee order. A video from fans also showed Affleck thanking the Dunkin’ location for having him with his arm around J.Lo.
In case you were wondering, Affleck’s go-to Dunkin’ order is an “iced coffee with a sh*tload of sugar” according to celebrity gossip site deuxmoi.
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