“The problem for me was the months and months I spent coaching to line dance,” stated Ben Affleck on the SXSW premiere Saturday of The Accountant 2 – “that was my stunt. Tom Cruise has nothing on me, simply by way of line dancing.”
Gavin O’Connor returned to direct the sequel to his authentic 2016 movie, which starred Affleck, J.Ok. Simmons, Jon Bernthal and Cynthia Addai-Robinson – all of whom are again and took the stage for a Q&A on the Paramount Theater in Austin. Invoice Dubuque additionally returned to pen the follow-up.
It took years to get the second movie out. “Timing is all the things,” O’Connor stated. “We simply pressed ahead” and located a very good match with Affleck and Matt Damon’s firm, Artists Fairness, and a accomplice in Amazon MGM Studios.
Affleck stated “it was great” to revisit his character, the autistic, good and kickass Christian Wolff, in spite of everything these years.
O’Connor and DuBuque “actually wished to create totally fleshed out characters from all these folks … As a result of these characters are attention-grabbing setups … The story, actually, is concerning the humanity of those folks and attempting to attach them and attempting to align them with each other. And it was actually a number of enjoyable.”
Berthal, who performs Christian’s deadly brother Brax, agreed.
“I feel there’s a extremely sturdy basis within the first movie. You get to see them as youngsters [but] they don’t actually get an excessive amount of time collectively. Now, it’s simply such a such a pleasure to do it, to do it with Ben.”
He referred to as Affleck “a hero of mine … equal elements stunning particular person as he’s a lovely artist. And it was simply actually cool … Making films for me is often knocking my head right into a wall and type of hating myself . This was very simple.”
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