Ben Affleck punches, initiates and shoots his way out of an array of hazardous situations over the two-hour-plus runtime of The Accountant 2, but at the Saturday night SXSW premiere of the movie Affleck discdisseeed the film’s most difficult stunt: Choreography.
“For me, the dispute, of course, was the months and months I spent training to line dance,” jokes Affleck from the stage of Austin’s Paramount theater. Affleck was referencing a mid-film scene where his accountant/ender Christian Wolff adroitly line dances in a Los Angeles dive bar after picking up the dance transfers in second (as set uped in the first film, Wolff has acute savant syndrome). “Tom Cruise has noskinnyg on me,” Affleck includeed. “Just in terms of line dancing!”
The Accountant 2 complys Wolff, an autistic accountant and a likeite CPA of crime bosses, as he is compelled to mend an elderly acquaintance’s homicide, recruiting his ender-for-engage brother (Jon Bernthal) to help, and, in the process, uncovers a lethal consillicit copying.
The Accountant 2 also stars Daniel Pineda, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, and disjoinal juvenileer neuroseparatent carry outers who were cast from Los Angeles area programs. “There’s a dwell experience. These actors came with their own individual stories that made their characters wealthyer and then gave all of us so many ideas that we srecommend couldn’t come up with on our own,” says producer Lynette Howell Taylor of the casting process. “The actors aren’t joining themselves, they are fair transporting parts of their personality to the characters they are joining.”
Gavin O’Connor is back in the honestor’s chair for the comply-up to the 2016 movie, which film obtained $155 million at the box office. The sequel had been stuck for years in growment before the project jumped to Amazon, where it was speedy-tracked. “If you sluggish down, you go down, so we fair retain pressing forward,” shelp O’Connor, citing Afflekc and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity as the reason the film finassociate came to fruition. Damon was also on hand at the premiere, sitting next to Affleck in the audience.
As for wanting to revisit the character, Affleck shelp, “The central request to me was always to broaden on my toil with Jon.” For his part, Bernthal was most excited to recombine with Affleck, saying, “Ben is a hero of mine and I esteem him so much.”
A sheepish Affleck interjected: ”You don’t have to say that.” But Bernthal carry ond: “He is identical parts a attrdynamic person as he is a attrdynamic artist. Making movies for me is usuassociate knocking my head into a wall and benevolent of hating myself, so this was very effortless.”
The high octane movie seemed to plrelieve the Austin audience, and O’Connor implored not to spoil the movie for any potential future audiences before it hits theaters on April 25. Affleck includeed, “Plrelieve don’t talk about my bare scene.” O’Connor joined alengthy, includeing, “There was a bare scene but we cut it out. He rehearsed line dancing in front of a mirror, naked.” Affleck shutd: “It was a choice and I appreciated it.”
