Casey Affleck heaped praise on Andrew Dominik’s forthcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde during a press conference for his latest film Dreamin’ Wild at the Venice Film Festival Wednesday.“I’ve seen Blonde and it’s incredible,” Affleck told press corps. “I’ve seen a couple of versions of Blonde and it’s taken him [Dominik] a long time to get it out into the world.
But that’s just how he is. He’s so slow with it. And it’s an amazing, beautiful film.”Affleck began discussing the NC-17-rated flick after he was asked about his relationship with the film’s director Andrew Dominik whom he worked with on The Assassination of Jesse James, which also debuted in Venice.Later during the presser, Affleck continued to discuss his work with Dominik on The Assassination of Jesse James when he was asked about his personal regrets and how they influenced his performance in the musical drama Dreamin’ Wild.“I’ve experienced my share of failure so far.
Dashed hopes and collapsed dreams. These aren’t the worst of them, but I’ve been in a lot of movies that I thought would be great and they didn’t turn out to be great,” he said. “When we brought Jesse James here it had a nice warm reception but the rest of the world thought it was a total disaster.
A failure of an expensive movie. And for a while, I thought to myself my greatest accomplishment is being in the Brad Pitt movie with the lowest box office.”Affleck later added that he used some “more personal failures” throughout his performance in Dreamin’ Wild.Dreamin’ Wild is written and directed by Bill Pohlad and tells the true story of the instrumental and vocal duo Donnie and Joe Emerson.
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