His Mad Men contract unfortunately prevented him from starring in this David Fincher thriller, and the filmmaker chose his successor on Google Images.
Jon Hamm and John Slattery, the two leading actors in Mad Menhave just met for the time of a broadcast of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. The opportunity for actors to tell anecdotes related to Matthew Weiner’s cult series broadcast between 2007 and 2015. And to confirm that the interpreter of Don Draper should have played Nick Dunne in Gone Girladaptation of Appearances Gillian Flynn by David Fincher.
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Page Six had mentioned this casting at the end of the broadcast of the series, but the actor had not reacted. Today, he confirms, and even laughs at a detail concerning his replacement, Ben Affleck: “Yes, I was attached to this movie until the last moment. It should have been me, but we had to continue the adventures of Mr. Draper. Poor Ben, this guy from Boston, who had to wear this Cardinals cap. He wasn’t very happy.” A nod to the fact that he himself was born in St. Louis, like the character, while Affleck comes from another American region.
Finally, Jon Hamm therefore completed Mad Men, and the series was acclaimed until its memorable finale. And Ben Affleck was cast by David Fincher on Google Imageswhen the director noticed that he often put on the same awkward — and awkward — smile in press photos.
“When you prepare the cast of a film, you imagine your actors in the most critical situations of your scenario, explained the filmmaker at the end of 2014, at the time of the release of his dark marital thriller. In the story of Gone Girl, there is this scene where the main character has to smile near the portrait of his missing wife, in front of the local press and all the inhabitants of the city. I then went to Google Images to see photos of actors I was thinking of for the role, and when I typed “Ben Affleck”, about fifty photos where he appears in public with that smile that I was looking for appeared on my screen. It’s a very special smile. We feel that his smile is held to put people at ease, but at the same time he becomes very vulnerable, and then, we can perceive his smile differently and have a darker perception of it.
Interviewed by First at the time, Ben Affleck detailed on his side that Fincher feared that this very particular role in such a dark film could have a lasting impact on his career.
“He had scared that i’m torpedoing my career with this role he confided. Joke aside, the first time I sat across from him to talk about the film, he explained to me that for it to work, my character had to explore the soft, hidden side of masculinity. Man at his weakest, at his most vulnerable. All those things we are ashamed of and hide from others. I immediately loved the idea because I can no longer fit the convention of the leading man being the smartest guy in the room and having all the questions answered. Even before the film begins, his room for maneuver and his behavior are irreparably limited by the sympathy he is supposed to inspire. Whereas if you have a character who is the hero of the film without being a paragon of virtue, there are no more rules! Who knows what this guy might do or say a second later?”
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