Here's why Michael Jordan isn't in Ben Affleck's AirMovie.
Ahead of the release of Ben Affleck's fifth directorial effort Air next month, the actor-turned-director has shared why the film, which tells the story of salesman Sonny Vaccaro and his signing of a then-newcomer Michael Jordan to Nike, contains a deliberate lack of its main muse.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Affleck went on to express how, with star power as recognizable as Jordan's, audiences would immediately identify any depiction of him as a "knockoff," thus the only person capable of playing Jordan would be Jordan himself—“the only person who could play Michael Jordan, as I’ve said to him, is too old now to play Michael Jordan.”
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