Ben Ford’s answer is plain: No.
The change in film selection was not a disappearance. It was a rebalancing.
A shift toward work that nourishes him — in scripts, in flying, in direct help to real people — instead of work simply designed to maximize ticket revenue.
It is a version of success that many performers talk about but rarely achieve — the ability to choose quality of time over financial scale.
And in that version of the story, Ford did not slow down.
He just changed direction — and fulfilled that direction with purpose.
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