Jason Bateman appeared on “Good Morning America” to promote his upcoming new movie, “Air,” which stars Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris Tucker, Viola Davis, and others.
When speaking to the ABC hosts, Bateman revealed he is in a group chat with some of his co-stars and other fellow actors, including Matt Damon — although Damon won’t allow one specific person to join.
Who Isn’t Allow Into The Wordle Group Chat?
In “Good Morning America,” Jason Bateman talked about what he does when he is not on set — Wordle, which he says the interview interrupted his morning game.
“This interview has interrupted my morning session with it,” he joked. “It will hurt your brain. I have to watch not to do it too early in the morning. Otherwise, I get frustrated with myself. I have to be well hopped up on caffeine.”
Bateman is not the only actor who loves to play Wordle, revealing that he and some other actors even have a group chat. “Matt Damon, Will Arnett, Bradley Cooper, myself, [Ben] Affleck is trying to get in, but Matt [Damon] won’t let him in for some reason,” he said before the ABC hosts began to laugh.
Matt Damon, Will Arnett, Bradley Cooper and @batemanjason are all in a Wordle group chat together. pic.twitter.com/rKIHaHYppy
— Good Morning America (@GMA) April 5, 2023
When asked who the best player of Wordle is, Bateman replied, “Sam Jones is in it as well; he’s the best, I think. He’s a documentary filmmaker.”
“Damon’s great, Arnett’s great, I’m dead last each time,” Bateman admitted. “I gotta take care… I’m the caboose.”
“Air”
The upcoming movie “Air” (2023) will tell the true story of shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) and how he convinced Nike to work with one of the greatest athletes of all time — Michael Jordan.
Alongside Damon, the film will star Ben Affleck as Phil Knight, Viola Davis as Deloris Jordan, Chris Tucker as Howard White, and Jason Bateman as Rob Strasser.
“Air” marks the first film from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s new production company, Artists Equity, and although there are many roles within the movie, there is one iconic role they did not fill — Michael Jordan’s.
“The second you put the camera on an actor and say ‘Hey, it’s Michael Jordan,’ and it’s not Michael Jordan, you’re going to lose the audience, so we knew. Michael’s just too famous and means too much to people to try to have someone else play him in a movie,” Matt Damon said on the reasoning behind the decision not to cast Michael Jordan.
Rather than having an actor attempt to fill Jordan’s shoes, the upcoming movie will show small clips of the athlete, still incorporating him into the film.
Despite not casting Michael Jordan in the film, before producing the movie, Ben Affleck flew to Florida to talk with Michael Jordan one-on-one — not only to get his blessing but to ask if there were any specifics he wanted to see within the film to which Jordan said two things — the first, he wanted Viola Davis to play his mom in the movie. Second, he wanted Howard White (portrayed by Chris Tucker) in the film.
“I certainly wouldn’t be comfortable with promoting the movie any further by assigning Michael’s vote of approval to it,” Affleck told Reuters. “I will tell you that every step was taken along the way to make sure that he had every option available to him because of our respect for him.”
