https://variety.com/2023/film/news/ben-affleck-michael-jordan-viola-davis-air-1235558713/
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Ben Affleck
Nathanred — 2 years ago(August 08, 2023 01:43 PM)
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/ben-affleck-michael-jordan-viola-davis-air-1235558713/
Ben Affleck says he never would have made “Air” without Michael Jordan’s blessing, but that blessing came with one major request. Her name? Viola Davis.
Directed by Affleck, the movie stars Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro, the Nike employee who convinced Jordan (Damian Young) to sign the deal that allowed for the creation of the Air Jordan shoe line. Affleck also stars as Nike co-founder Phil Knight.
Introducing “Air” at its South by Southwest world premiere, Affleck said, “I had a chance to sit down with Michael Jordan, because I just wasn’t going to make this movie without asking him, ‘What matters to you?’ Interestingly, and tellingly, he had a few things that mattered.”“One of them was that Howard White needed to be in the movie,” Affleck said, referring to the vice president of the Jordan brand.