Ben Affleck Calls Line Dancing His Hardest Stunt In ‘The Accountant 2’ At SXSW Premiere

“The problem for me was the months and months I spent coaching to line dance,” mentioned Ben Affleck on the SXSW premiere 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 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 followup.

It took years to get the second movie out. “Timing is every part,” O’Connor mentioned. “We simply pressed ahead” and located a superb match with Affleck and Matt Damon’s firm, Artists Fairness, and a accomplice in Amazon MGM Studios.

Affleck mentioned “it was fantastic” to revisit his character, the autistic, good and kickass Christian Wolff, in spite of everything these years.

O’Connor and DuBuque “actually needed to create totally fleshed out characters from all these individuals … As a result of these characters are attention-grabbing 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 loads 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 children [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 components stunning individual as he’s a good looking artist. And it was simply actually cool … Making motion pictures for me is often knocking my head right into a wall and type of hating myself . This was very simple.”