In 2016, while a guest on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air," Casey Affleck said that filming one of the scenes in this movie was the occasion for one of the only conversations of any length or depth between Casey Affleck and his father, Tim Affleck, about the debilitating alcoholism that the elder Affleck had struggled with during much of Casey's early childhood. Tim Affleck, who played Joaquin Phoenix's character's father, had been sober for many decades when he shot the scene, in which Phoenix is supposed to have traveled to Costa Rica to visit his "father"; Casey Affleck set the scene at a bar, "and I put a beer in front of my dad. And I was not intending for him to drink the beer. I just wanted him to be--both of the characters just to be sitting there in silence, sort of uncomfortable silence between father and son. And my dad looked at me and he said, 'I can't drink this.' I said, 'I know you can't, dad. You don't--I (don't) want you to drink--for God's sake, don't drink. And that's probably the only time we talked about his recovery and sobriety since - since he got sober. You know, he doesn't talk about it much. But he is a lovable guy, and I have a great relationship with him. He's really very, very smart. And it's been - you know, I got to know a whole new person when I was a teenager because the man I knew before that was just completely different. So in some ways, I kind of began my relationship with the father I know now when I was a teenager."

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