Rise of the Affleck, Vol. 2
So, we’ve all seen Good Will Hunting, right? And there’s Matt Damon and there’s Ben Affleck, and they’re both all cute and loyal and wunderkind-like, and they wander the streets of South Boston. Remember? Now, think about the background of that movie. There’s Minnie Driver, sure, and then there’s this curly-headed guy following the guys around, talk talk talking. All the time, talking. And the truth is, he’s annoying. Really annoying.
And now? He’s our next up-and-coming ACK-tor. Casey Affleck, come on down!
We at CHHQ aren’t entirely sure how Casey–Affleck the Younger–made the jump to Dramatic It Guy. A glance at his trusty IMDB profile reveals fine uncredited performances in both of the first two American Piemovies, which probably, you know, garnered him some attention from some truly high-quality directors. He was the (again, annoying but also kind of hilarious) younger Mormon brother in the Ocean’s Eleven series. He wandered in the desert with Matt Damon in Gerry, which by all accounts could be used to bore unreliable information out of foreign terrorists. That’s kind of it. And now…he’s Robert Ford in the excellently-named The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford AND the star of Gone Baby Gone, the new Dennis Lehane adaptation. Didn’t a few people win Oscars the last time they adapted Lehane? Let us check our trusty notes. Oh, right. Anyway, we hear he’s quite good in both of these movies, all intense-like, but somehow he’ll always be the scrawny guy piping up in the background to us.
Congratulations, though, Casey.
Casey Affleck, Good Will Hunting, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Gone Baby Gone, Dennis Lehane
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
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