The upcoming film “Air” (2023) will tell the true story of shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) and how he convinced Nike to partner with one of the greatest athletes of all time — Michael Jordan.
Alongside Damon, the film will also star Ben Affleck as Phil Knight, Viola Davis as Deloris Jordan, Chris Tucker as Howard White, and Jason Bateman as Rob Strasser.
While promoting the new film, Chris Tucker appeared on “Good Morning America” where he admitted there was no script for it and he “basically wrote his own part” for the film.
Chris Tucker Talks ‘Air’
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“Air” is Tucker’s first film in seven years, but the transition back to acting was easy considering the role Tucker played was actually his best friend.
“Ben Affleck for years said ‘Man, I want to work with you’ and you know how in Hollywood you think ‘okay he’s just talking’ but he called my people and they said ‘we have this part for you, but it’s not a lot, but it’s about this guy Howard White’ and I’m like ‘Woah wait a minute, I know Howard White’,” he said. “Good Morning America”.
“So I called Howard and he told me he knew about the part,” Tucker continued. “He was very helpful by helping me do all the research. He told me to talk to people [who he knew] when he was five years old doing hopscotch in the neighborhood — the coach and the teacher and I really got a lot of information and a lot of things that I gathered to instill his passion because that role wasn’t there.”
The 51-year-old comedian went on to explain how while making the film, Ben Affleck went to speak with Michael Jordan one-on-one to not only get his blessing but to ask if there were any specific things he wanted to see in the film to which Jordan said two things — the first , he wanted Viola Davis to play his mother in the movie and secondly, he wanted Howard White in the movie.
“So that was my role,” Tucker told the “Good Morning America” host, “so I basically wrote my own part in the movie.”
Ben Affleck hopes Michael Jordan approves of ‘Water’
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Even though Ben Affleck flew to Florida to talk to Michael Jordan while making the movie, the “Good Will Hunting” actor still hopes the iconic basketball player approves of the movie and enjoys the results.
“I certainly wouldn’t be comfortable promoting the film further by giving it Michael’s approval vote,” Affleck told Reuters. “I will tell you that every step has been taken along the way to make sure that he has every option available to him because of the respect that we have for him.”
“Air” marks the first film from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s new production company, Artists Equity, and while there are many roles in the film, there is one iconic role they did not fill — Michael Jordan.
“When you put a camera on an actor and say ‘Hey, this is Michael Jordan’ and it’s not Michael Jordan, you’re going to lose the audience, so we know. Michael is too famous and means too much to people to try to have someone else play him in a movie,” Damon said.
Instead of having actors attempt to fill Jordan’s shoes, the upcoming film will show small clips of the athlete, still incorporating them into the film.
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