Ben Affleck visits Congo, goes on 'Nightline'

With all his time not working, Ben Affleck has taken a cue from Brangelina and decided to visit a few people less fortunate than he and wife Jennifer Garner. His recent travels to the Congo, to which he traveled three timed in the past year to learn about the region, will be chronicled at 11:30 p.m. Thursday on ABC's Nightline.

"It's fairly clear that in the modern age that there is a currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency, really," Affleck told the AP on Wednesday. "I've discovered that you can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it."

Affleck plans to use that currency to detail how people have been affected by years of war and subsequent poverty and hunger.

"I want to try to bring people along to learn and if they might not tune into this unless there was some celebrity involved in it, either because they're interested in the celebrity or because they want to see the celebrity kind of make a fool of himself, then so be it." That's usually a tough choice, but we're watching either way.

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