7. In Kevin Smith, He Has One Of The Industry's Biggest Comic Book Fans As A Resource
Affleck himself is a comic book fan. Consider the people with whom he started his career Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, and Matt Damon. He doesn't get consideration as a fan, because fans are mostly prejudiced against people that don't look or match their social awkwardness, their ability to get women, and if they have upper body strength. This is a crude and stereotypical judgment made against people like Affleck by fanboys that usually separate themselves with this distinction. I'm not trying to be crude, this just happens. Truth is, he doesn't need to know anything about comics to figure out the character he is playing. He has plenty of references to figure out the character and a solid director that will guide him in the process. The fact that he is a comic book fan makes it that much better for his delivery, and for us knowing we'll get a pretty solid representation. Probably one that will be closer to the character than we've ever seen. Let me rephrase that last sentence. Probably closer to the version of the character we've always wanted to see.
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