Ben Affleck Makes Big Admission About 'The Accountant 2' and Jon Bernthal

Although it took nine years, the sequel to The Accountant is finally here. The Accountant 2 hit theatres on Friday, April 25, with Ben Affleck (Christian Wolff) and Jon Bernthal (Brax) headlining the film.

Ahead of the movie’s official premiere, Affleck and Bernthal spoke with Collider about several topics related to the movie. However, one thing the actors echoed was the appreciation of their ability to work well together.

As Affleck explained in the interview, it almost felt as if he was “slacking off” at times because working with Bernthal felt “really easy” throughout filming.

“That’s the paradox, right? Strangely, when it feels really easy, my experience tends to be the best,” Affleck explained. “You feel like the one unnerving thing, like, ‘I should be working harder than this. Am I slacking off? This feels really easy,’ and then it tends to really work.”

“When it’s like blood from a stone, and you’re grinding it out, and it doesn’t work, I feel like, ‘Okay, well that kind of makes sense.’ Part of it, honestly, is [Bernthal’s] a brilliant guy and knows how to do this. I’ve been doing movies for a while, and I understand where it wanted to go. Part of it is you just get lucky. You work with somebody great, and then your rhythms and stuff fall in sync.”

Bernthal summed it up well, explaining that they were “shooting the s***” and “having a good time.” He admitted that this makes him realize that maybe he should rethink how he’s doing everything.

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“With this one, I’ve only had this experience a few times, and strangely, maybe I should rethink the way I’m doing everything, because every single time it’s felt like this, I feel like I’ve been equally pleased with the result, which is almost never,” Bernthal explained.

“But this one really felt easy. There was an ease, there was a level of trust, and there was no squeezing anything out.”

There’s plenty of intrigue surrounding The Accountant 2, and if it plays out as well as it sounds like filming it went, fans should enjoy the sequel. The early returns have been solid, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a score of 76% over 100 critic reviews.

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