But I don’t want to violate anything that’s fundamentally important or true to you. This is gonna have to be something of a fable, a parable, an inspiring story, so I’m gonna take liberties, in order to make it an hour and 30 or 40 minutes. When I said, “Look, this is not historically accurate, in the sense that I can’t dot every I and cross every T, with what time every phone call was made. However, what I found was that he was very gracious. And I was very, very prepared for that to be the result because I had no reason to think that he would be open to it, or that he would welcome it, particularly since it wasn’t the Michael Jordan story, where they had bought his rights. That would have been that, over, last conversation.
If he had said, “Don’t do it,” I was gonna not do it. He’s not in it and doesn’t appear in it, but nonetheless, it invokes his name and tells a part of his story, and I didn’t wanna do it if he was opposed to.
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So, I had at least enough of an in to say, “Hey, can I come see you and run this past you.” To be honest, from a point of view of respect for him, his family, who he is, what he means, from a selfish point of view, for the movie, the stupidest thing in the world would be to go make a movie that involves him. I’ve had a chance to spend time with him and it’s been very memorable for me, but he’s probably forgotten it. I’m not gonna act like me and him are friends. I went to speak to Michael because I’ve been lucky enough to run across him a few times. This cast feels like a coach having assembled a team of top players, and you brought in Viola Davis, at the request of Michael Jordan.ĪFFLECK: I really didn’t understand the movie, until then. This movie is a massive failure, if it’s just my voice and my experience and my perspective.” Everything that everybody brought, all those things are invaluable to telling a story. I need your voice, your experience, your perspective. I said, “I need you, as a collaborator and filmmaker. He’s passed me by in a hotel lobby and I’ve been like, “Chris, I wanna do a movie with you!” Finally, I think Jordan brought him around, or the Jordan subject matter. Chris can attest the number of times I’ve harassed him. And then, there were people who it had been my life’s goal to work with, like Viola Davis and Chris Tucker. This is a group of people who either I had known for a long, long time, had an enormous amount of respect and regard for, like Matt Maher, Chris Messina, Matt Damon, and Jason Bateman, all of whom I’ve worked with multiple times, know well, and adore and admire. Why did you want to add so many layers for yourself and make things that much more complicated?īEN AFFLECK: I can see how it would seem that way, but actually for me, it made it so much easier. Cruise has a biological daughter with ex Katie Holmes, 16-year-old Suri.Question: Ben, you directed this and brought your love of filmmaking and sports to this film, as well as your film family with Matt Damon. Kidman also has two biological daughters with husband Keith Urban: Sunday Rose, 14, and Faith Margaret, 11. They have made choices to be Scientologists and as a mother, it's my job to love them." They are able to make their own decisions. Kidman told Vanity Fair in 2019, "They are adults.
Our mom is SP." SP stands for "Suppressive Person," which is someone who tries to block all the good in the world, according to Scientology's website. In Leah Remini's tell-all book about Scientology, she shared that when asked if she spoke to her mother, Isabella said, "Not if I have a choice. Kidman and Cruise with their children Connor and Isabella.Ĭonnor, 76, and Isabella, 29, were adopted by Kidman and Cruise before their 2001 divorce, as toddlers.īella and Connor, practicing Scientologists, chose to live with their father after the divorce. It's been speculated that they avoid Kidman since she's not a member of the Church of Scientology. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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