Ben Affleck Says Line Dancing in ‘The Accountant 2’ Was Like Doing Stunt Work During SXSW Premiere: ‘Tom Cruise Has Nothing on Me’

variety.com:

Selome Hailu Move over, Tom Cruise — there’s a new stuntman in town. Or rather, a new dancer. In “The Accountant 2,” Ben Affleck reprises the role of autistic criminal and math whiz Christian Wolff, and his performance in one particular scene made the Texan crowd at SXSW roar with laughter and applause.

Chris usually struggles with women — even beginning the film with a rocky experience at a speed dating event — but finds himself on the dance floor at a country bar after a woman starts to flirt with him.

When she first approaches him at his booth, where he’s joined by his brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal), he blows it, but after observing the repetitive motions of the line dancing crowd, he decides to join in.

He’s wearing orthopedic sneakers, in contrast to everyone else’s cowboy boots, but he picks up the steps with ease, and scores a phone number in the process. “For me, the challenge, of course, was the months and months I spent training to line dance.