'You know, you're flattered at first and then the next second is pressure.'
"I said, 'So, do you have any ideas about who would …?' And immediately I was like, 'Oh, f**k.' Because I’m about to ask him who to cast. And if I don’t get them, it’s going to look to him like I ignored him," Affleck recalled."It's actually hard to get actors. And I knew who he was going to say because it was the same person that I've wanted to direct for so long, who I think is … I don’t think there’s an objective best actor.
"But he was like, 'That's my mom.' He was dead serious. 'Viola Davis, that's my mom.' And that was it. Discussion was over. However it happened, it wasn't his problem, but it was going to f**king happen. And I was like, 'OK, Mike.'""I'm sure it was because I said, 'Michael Jordan wants you to play his mom.' It certainly wasn’t 'Ben Affleck wants you to be in his movie,'" Affleck joked.
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