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Ben Affleck kicks up his sneakers on the dance ground on this spirited sequence from “The Accountant 2.”
Affleck’s character, Christian Wolff, an autistic C.P.A., has gone along with his brother, Braxton (Jon Bernthal), to a rustic western bar. Utilizing calculations, Christian rapidly figures out the sample of a line dance and joins in.
Discussing the scene in an interview, the movie’s director, Gavin O’Connor, defined that the scene was meant to perform a number of issues because the movie strikes deeper into the second act. He added, “Invoice Dubuque, our author, and I wished to desert the plot and simply make a tough left flip and go spend time with the brothers in a social setting so we are able to deepen their relationship whereas additionally permitting Christian the chance to attach with a lady in a method he’s by no means carried out earlier than.”
This results in a second during which Braxton expects his brother may make a idiot of himself, however issues end up in another way.
“It dramatizes his mathematical mind, since you watch him begin to have a look at the footwork and all of it begins to compute in a short time,” O’Connor mentioned within the interview.
He additionally mentioned Affleck attended a number of rehearsals to get the strikes proper: “We had a choreographer named Jennifer Hamilton who was great, and earlier than we acquired to the rehearsal stage, she was presenting me with a bunch of various concepts, as a result of there are a number of variations on line dancing, after which we narrowed it down.”
They labored out the choreography with the dancers earlier than bringing Affleck in. “Then Ben simply did his factor,” O’Connor mentioned. “Christian didn’t must be nice. He simply needed to do it. So it was by no means necessary that he lit the place on hearth.”
