Ben Affleck and the new action thriller: « Here is my new strange couple »

“It will be a action movie but also a comedy type The strange couple». Ben Affleck refers to that masterpiece of the American comedy which was the 1968 film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau but he is talking about The Accountant 2from April 24 to the cinema, distributed by Warner Bros. e sequel ofOriginal of 2016 who saw him interpret Christian Wolff, an accountant with autism, as good in the accounts as they are inclined to break the law.

To clean up the money of the worst criminal scum and to defend himself and the people around him from those same criminals and the police. It is common opinion that Affleck is much better to write and direct movie than to act. His monolithic face – which makes him, among other things, an excellent poker player – makes him an average actor.

He won two Oscarsin 1998 for Will Hunting – Rebel genius and in 2013 for Argonbut always as a screenwriter and producer, never as an interpreter. But that same « Pokerface » it is perfect for the interpretation of a « Savant » capable of dialogue much better with numbers than with people.

This is also the reason for the success of the first film And the insistence of the public to review Christian Wolff in action. “People stopped me at the supermarket and he asked me to return him». And so Affleck, who does not like sequels and in forty years of career he has made very few of them, has decided to recall to collaborate The director Gavin O’Connor.

What does the strange couple have to do with it? This time Chris will be flanked in his adventures by his brother Brax, played by Jon Bernhal. Jk Simmons and Cynthia Addai-Robinson also return to the old cast. There will be no instead Anna Kendricksentimental interest of the protagonist in the first film. That love story it was not successful And now Christian Wolff faces even the sad « speed-Date » ceremony with an accountant.

«It will always be an action movie but comedy will play an important role. We will tell improbable sentimental adventures and the antagonism between the two brothers. I saw a video on two eagles in a nest. At one point one throws out the otherweaker and insecure. Not a pretty thing to do, but after all he helped him fly. Something very similar happens here too ».

Already for the first film Affleck had studied a lot. «I did research on Guys with autistic spectrum disorder. The autism gene is great, if it were not there we would not have The largest mathematicians in the worldwe would not have had Einstein and not even Mozart ».

Speaking of music, there is a scene in which the protagonist excels in the « Line dance »the typical dance of the American country music. «I am not a great dancer but to interpret a man who wants a sentimental relationship to such an extent that he is willing to improvise dancer He was touching ».

«At the beginning of a relationship You don’t know how to behaveask yourself: is you looking at me, am I about to make a fool? You want to connect with the other person And you don’t know how to do it. In this case Chris tries with the dance, and precisely because the line dance is like that structured and precise He understands it, he breaks it into a mathematical calculation and dominates it. As for me, I don’t think my dancing performance will have a professional sequel. The phone, for this, has not yet played ».

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