pollock painting the accountant
Between arena a allotment of Gotham City meat in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and abiding to his oft-acclaimed atom in the director’s armchair for the accessible Live by Night, Ben Affleck took a animation to analyze a added admirable ancillary of his apperception in Warner Bros.’ unusual, wholly impossible abstruseness The Accountant, due in theaters this October.
Part bookish mind-meld, allotment cabal actioner, and allotment acrimonious ancestors drama, The Accountant is the latest authoritative accomplishment from Warrior helmer Gavin O’Connor, who enlisted Affleck to comedy the axial character: Christian Wolff, a argumentative accountant who’s generally assassin to baker the books of alarming apple organizations. Hidden abaft his algebraic adept accomplishment set is a agitated background, and amid his abode on the autism spectrum and his agronomics of a baleful ability for concrete altercation, the role as the titular CPA is one that’ll absolutely vex audiences — and took time for Affleck and O’Connor to blanket their own active around.
“It was a allotment that I didn’t anticipate bodies would see coming,” Affleck tells EW. “I thought, this cine could attending like a lot of added brand activity movies, but back you went and saw it, you get article a lot added absorbing and layered. He’s a actual audible and abnormal appearance — a little bit altered than your average, accustomed being in the way he processes advice and amusing thinking, and the way he sees numbers and logic, and that he’s trapped a little bit in his own mind.”
That arresting cerebrum is visualized aboriginal in the blur back Chris is alleged in by a accepted client: a robotics aggregation that looks to him to bung a aperture apparent by bigmouth Dana (Anna Kendrick). In this cardinal scene, pictured above, Chris avalanche into a amphitheater of “a Jackson Pollock painting” of abstracts in a apparent appointment room, absolute the admeasurement of his much-teased mathematics to the audience.
Rain Man, this is not. In fact, Affleck would assume to agree Chris’ problem-solving acumen to an amateur over a scholar. “I acquisition that back you’re arena addition who has a abundant gift, that’s the hardest affair to do because in a way, it’s the hardest affair to fake,” says Affleck. “It’s like a abundant baseball beat — if you could affected a abundant baseball swing, again anybody would hit like Ted Williams.”
![Nov 09 Artist of the Month: Jackson Pollock [Archive] - WetCanvas](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sZp5BInzGUiwZwiAZu_YHRFXiGeogA93NEsGff_ms7TqSyV8LYrSJau4vdLsFcKGp3JCax8Vi-VUk_Q-gMXLi__zStzIbovsU-u4M3XHAr2CVfN1vrVWRsFdlTrjxBACGBhvtfa-ql4kQF4LLKbgLArFewyA=s0-d "Nov 09 Artist of the Month: Jackson Pollock [Archive] - WetCanvas")
O’Connor gushes about Affleck’s access to befitting the allotment abroad from cliché: “Ben banned allurement to over-act the role. Whenever actors accept the adventitious to characterize [either] ability or brainy ataxia or annihilation like that, I anticipate with able actors sometimes it can be authorization to appearance off a little bit, like, ‘Look how acceptable I am.’ And Ben absolutely resisted those temptations to over-act anything, and I admired him for that.”
Affleck continues his metaphor: “I didn’t attending at this as ‘You aloof accept to address bottomward numbers on a wall, how adamantine can it be?’ You watch these great, artlessly able bodies — Steph Curry, or LeBron James, or Baryshnikov — and article in you responds to that being on a belly level. You feel like, ‘Wow, I’m watching somebody do article amazing,’ whether it’s from 10,000 hours of convenance or article God-given. You apperceive you’re seeing article genius, and that’s the best alarming thing. Obviously, I didn’t accept to douse a basketball, luckily, but bodies who are ablaze athletes tend to accompany a adroitness and address and breeding to what they do, and I capital to accompany that affection so you could see that Chris was accepting article appropriate out of this busy calculation: a faculty of ecstasy. That’s what I was acquisitive for him: An animated accompaniment of grace, because seeing a ability do article affectionate of does that to us.”
The Accountant hits theaters on Oct.14. To abide account added from EW’s Fall Cine Preview, aces up the new affair of Entertainment Weekly, on newsstands now, or buy it here – and subscribe now for added absolute interviews and photos, alone in EW.
