Ben Affleck, Viola Davis and Matt Damon attend the World Premiere of Amazon Studio’s AIR at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on Monday, March 27, 2023 (photo: Alex J. Berliner/ABImages)
Viola Davis may have been Michael Jordan’s personal casting choice to play his mother in the film Air, but Jordan’s endorsement alone didn’t make her participation a slam dunk. Davis was, however, especially intrigued with the notion of working with director Ben Affleck. She’d been a fan of his films for a long time, and working with him on Air, she told us, raised her appreciation of him to a whole new level. (Click on the media bar below to hear Viola Davis)
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