Transcript of Affleck's Larry King interview

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: For those of you who missed last night's show, Larry LOVED Jersey Girl, and had lots of good things to say about it. The whole thing is up on the CNN website, but I've copied some of the key parts below: : KING: Great pleasure to finally welcome him to the show -- years ago we met, and you said you were coming on. : BEN AFFLECK, ACTOR: I know. I was true to my word. It's just a little bit delayed. Thank you very much. It's good to be here. I'm a big fan of the show. : KING: And me of you. Ben has said that "Jersey Girl" is a film you're proud of. Let me say something. We don't editorialize on this show. I saw "Jersey Girl" last week. It opens a week from Friday, the 26th, I believe. This is a terrific movie. It's about fathers and daughters. It's funny. It's sad. It covers a lot of ground. He's terrific. George Carlin's great. The little girl, where did you find her? : AFFLECK: She's fabulous. They just cast her from Long Island, but she's amazing. : KING: J.Lo has a short part but a key part. Who's the other girl, Liv Tyler? : AFFLECK: She's terrific. : KING: "Jersey Girl" is a great movie. : AFFLECK: Thank you very much. I'm glad you like it. I'm really proud of it. I think it's the best movie I've ever done. I'm really really proud of it. I've been friends with the director Kevin Smith for a long time so obviously... : KING: Did he write it with you in mind, your role? : AFFLECK: We talked about it. I had done an action movie, and he had done kind of a broader comedy, and we both talked about wanting to get back -- want to go do something like what we started off doing, a smaller story, sort of more heartfelt story. And he went out and wrote it at my urging. And then, you know, started sending me pages, and I thought it was great. And so it was really nice. : KING: Who came up with the idea of George carlin as the father? : AFFLECK: That was Kevin. George Carlin had a small part in the movie called "Dogma" that we did, and Kevin really got along with George and knew him really well. One of the things he knew about George was that George always wanted to be a serious actor. He sort of got into comedy as a way to get into show business, and he was obviously one of the great comedians and that career took off. But he takes acting very seriously, and he wanted to do that. I think this will show people that he can do that, and he'll do more roles. He's actually a wonderful guy and a really very smart guy. : KING: You are not a father? : AFFLECK: No. : KING: How did you like playing one, and how did it go -- W.C. Fields (ph) said never work with a kid. : AFFLECK: Yes, he did. Kids and animals, in fact. You never, he never met Raquel Castro, is all I can say. We had a wonderful experience with her. I don't know that it necessarily made me want to be a father as much as I just -- I felt like I got all the easy part. I got to play with the kid, with the infants and with Raquel and have all the good sides of it. I didn't, you know, have to get no sleep or change any diapers or deal with any tantrums or anything. It definitely made it -- I always want to have kids, and that's still something I want to do. So we'll see. : KING: Did you -- did it work out -- did the script play out the way you want? In other words, were you happy from original reading to finished product? : AFFLECK: I was. It really was one of those movies that was pretty consistent from the very beginning. It ended up having to be shorter ultimately because most -- that's a process most movies go through. But it was one of those kind of charmed things where there was stuff in it that's exactly from the first draft to the finished product.

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