'She is incredibly knowledgeable about the way fashion evolves through the culture as a confluence of music, sports, entertainment and dance.'
, Affleck opened up about the lengths he went to cast Davis as Jordan's mother, Deloris Jordan, which included him re-writing the script to give Davis more than just the one line she had in the original script. Affleck said he begged Davis to be part of his new production company's first project and told her,"When you're ready, let me know. We'll be here." Then he went to work on the script.
"I started writing and working with Matt, and Jen [Lopez] gave me some great lines too -- it just started getting better," he said. When asked what was his wife's input on the script, Affleck couldn't help but gush about her show business acumen across various facets of the industry. "Oh my God, she’s brilliant. She is incredibly knowledgeable about the way fashion evolves through the culture as a confluence of music, sports, entertainment and dance," Affleck said."She helped me in talking about the way in which a part of the reason why Jordans [the shoes] were so meaningful is because culture and style in America is 90 percent driven by Black culture.
"Black culture has historically pioneered music, dance, fashion, and it’s then been stolen, appropriated, remarketed as Elvis or whatever," he continued."And in this case, [Nike], a white-run corporate entity, was starting to do business with African American athletes in an identity affiliation sales thing. They were really taking value from what Michael Jordan represents and who he is. I don’t think the meaning can be overstated.
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