Ben Affleck has slammed the paparazzi while promoting his latest film at the Venice Film Festival.
The actor said: "I think more and more people pay attention to actors' private lives (and that) makes it difficult to suspend disbelief when you are going to watch their movie because really what you are thinking about is whatever you have read about them in a magazine rather than the performance they are giving, and it makes the actor's job harder."
"The movies become incidental pit-stops and commercial breaks in the soap opera of their life," he said.
One festival official said: "The photographers are doing their job like everyone else at the festival. We haven't received any complaints about inappropriate behaviour."
