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"    Photo: Getty Images   Last night, at the premiere of Terrence Malick&amp;#039;s new film To the Wonder, its star, Ben Affleck, revealed what&amp;#039;s next on his agenda. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s going to be a little Mr. Mom action,&amp;quot; he said. The reason: &amp;quot;[Jennifer Garner] has a couple movies coming up\u2026So, I&amp;#039;m preparing myself to take on some more of the burden [at home].&amp;quot; The Oscar-winning actor and director planned a hiatus long before Argo, but stepped back into the ring for Malick: &amp;quot;I found him to be a real artist\u2026someone I learned more from in the several months that we worked together than I had in [my] previous 20 years of acting in movies,&amp;quot; he revealed.    Malick, who notoriously seeks the shadows over the limelight, stayed in Austin, Texas for the film&amp;#039;s premiere. Yet, his industry fan base turned out in droves, including Moby, Wes Craven, and Gus Van Sant. The film&amp;#039;s leads\u2014Affleck, Rachel McAdams, and Olga Kurylenko\u2014also made appearances. Kurylenko described the thrill of working with the elusive director to ELLE.com. &amp;quot;Malick doesn&amp;#039;t want his actors to know what they are doing next,&amp;quot; she enthused. &amp;quot;There wasn&amp;#039;t any script. He just told the story, or actually, rather described our characters to us verbally. So, we all had to rely on instincts. You couldn&amp;#039;t rehearse or come up with what you were going to do in a scene. You had to constantly &amp;#039;be.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; The semi-autobiographical film doubles as an almost silent movie, but Kurylenko refutes the sentiment that Malick uses actors like models. The former Bond girl weighed in: &amp;quot;I did modeling. Acting has nothing to do with modeling. With modeling, there&amp;#039;s no thought behind [it] when you sit in front of the camera. Yes, you kind of try to act, but there isn&amp;#039;t the preparation that actors go through. You don&amp;#039;t work months on becoming someone\u2014doing all this research and physically transforming yourself.&amp;quot; With two hotly anticipated, yet drastically different films hitting the box office this Friday, Kurylenko, in Dior, compared her onscreen romantic struggle with Affleck to that with Oblivion&amp;#039;s Tom Cruise. &amp;quot;Marina [my character in To The Wonder] chooses the wrong man. She chooses a man who cannot fulfill her and that&amp;#039;s why she&amp;#039;s suffering so much. Ben had a frustrating role to play, because he plays a man who does not know how to love. He can feel the feeling, but it&amp;#039;s not enough. Love is not just a feeling. It&amp;#039;s also work, respect, and growth.&amp;quot; Affleck gave a mandate for viewing: &amp;quot;It is important to anticipate something that is not a traditional Hollywood linear narrative\u2026[and] to keep yourself open to that.&amp;quot; With his iconic brand of charm and humor, he concluded, &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s a long way of saying that I have spoken more dialogue now than there is in this movie.&amp;quot; To The Wonder opens in theaters on April 12. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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