‘Is Ben playing Turtle Boy in the movie deal?' Ben Affleck and Karen Read backer hung out and people noticed.
Photo By Phillip Caruso / Miramax Films / HBO Max / Claire Folger / Claire Folger / kpa/United Archives)
The post from Kearney, who gained a huge following by championing Read's assertions of innocence in her murder case, set the Internet ablaze, fueling speculation that the actor beloved for performances in
Soon after Read's
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When Kearney dropped his photo montage online, conjecture about about Affleck's possible involvement reached a fever pitch.
(Affleck's handlers have offered no confirmation to the trade publications).
'Big Ben!!!' one person replied to Kearney. 'Him and Matt Damon should come back together to do your movie. Matt could definitely play a Turtleboy. Ben can be Alan Jackson.'
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Another wondered, 'is Ben playing Turtle Boy in the movie deal?'
Read, 45, was
Karen Read supporters cheer when she emerges from Norfolk Superior Court after the jury delivered its verdict in her murder retrial.
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Prosecutors alleged that Read backed her SUV in a drunken rage into Boston police officer
Her lawyers said she was framed and that O'Keefe entered the property, owned at the time by a fellow Boston police officer, where he was fatally beaten and possibly mauled by a German Shepherd before his body was planted on the front lawn.
Read's first criminal trial ended with a hung jury last summer, and she still faces a wrongful death lawsuit brought by O'Keefe's family.
Karen Read emerges from Norfolk Superior Court on June 18, 2025, after the jury delivered its verdict in her murder retrial.
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Kearney, meanwhile, has pleaded not guilty to charges of harassing and intimidating witnesses in the Read case, though some of the charges have been dropped.
He suggested via X that Affleck's in the pro-Read camp, writing, 'He said 'so she didn't do it right?''
He said 'so she didn't do it right?'
— Aidan Kearney (@DoctorTurtleboy)
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