“The problem for me was the months and months I spent coaching to line dance,” mentioned Ben Affleck on the SXSW premiere Saturday of The Accountant 2 – “that was my stunt. Tom Cruise has nothing on me, simply when it comes to line dancing.”
Gavin O’Connor returned to direct the sequel to his unique 2016 movie, which starred Affleck, J.Okay. 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 mentioned. “We simply pressed ahead” and located match with Affleck and Matt Damon’s firm, Artists Fairness, and a companion in Amazon MGM Studios.
Affleck mentioned “it was great” to revisit his character, the autistic, sensible 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 individuals … As a result of these characters are fascinating setups … The story, actually, is in regards to the humanity of those individuals and attempting to attach them and attempting to align them with each other. And it was actually lots of enjoyable.”
Berthal, who performs Christian’s deadly brother Brax, agreed.
“I feel there’s a very robust 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 known 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 normally knocking my head right into a wall and type of hating myself . This was very straightforward.”
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