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After Their Mother’s Death, Casey Affleck Reveals He and Ben Also Lost Their Father This Year

From La Nación · () Spanish

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  • Casey Affleck said at the Venice Film Festival that he and his brother, Ben, lost both parents this year.
  • He dedicated Company, which he directed and co-wrote, to his parents and said he wished they could have seen it.
  • Affleck described transforming painful experiences into art as a source of strength, while reports said his father’s death had not previously been made public.

Casey Affleck dedicated his new film to both of his parents after revealing at the Venice Film Festival that he and his brother, Ben, had lost their father as well as their mother this year.

Speaking at a news conference for Company, the film he directed and co-wrote, Affleck said his father, Timothy “Tim” Byers Affleck, died earlier in the year. The death had not previously been publicly reported. His mother, Chris Anne Affleck, died in June from pancreatic cancer.

This film is dedicated to my parents, because I lost both my mother and my father this year and they were very important to me.

· Casey AffleckHe dedicated Company to his parents during the film’s Venice Film Festival press conference.

“This film is dedicated to my parents, because I lost both my mother and my father this year and they were very important to me,” Affleck said. He added that he had wanted to show them the film and believed they would have liked it. His children, Indiana, 22, and Atticus, 18, also appear in the movie.

I really wanted to show them this film and I couldn’t. I think they would have liked it.

· Casey AffleckHe spoke about his regret that his parents could not see Company.

Affleck said one of the best things about being an artist was the ability to turn life’s hardest experiences into creative work. He described honesty, vulnerability and a willingness to accept that some feelings may never be fully understood as part of that process.

The family published an obituary for Chris Anne Affleck in The Boston Globe in late July. It said she had been diagnosed with an illness in December 2025 and wanted to live long enough to see her grandson graduate from high school. She attended the graduation ceremony on May 31 and died peacefully in her sleep two days later. American media outlets contacted representatives for Ben and Casey Affleck about their father but received no comment. Ben Affleck also attended Venice to present his brother’s film.

The good thing about being an artist, perhaps the best thing, is that you can take all the hardest experiences of your life and put them into your work, and that simply makes you better.

· Casey AffleckHe reflected on using grief and difficult experiences in his artistic work.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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