An actor’s dream

Actor Casey Afleck described NZ-born director Andrew Dominick as a “genius” while promoting Dominick’s new film, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. “Someone said: ‘The man who made Chopper is making another movie’. And I said ‘I want to be in it. Any actor would be a fool not to want to work with that guy,'” said Afleck in an interview with the Melbourne Age. “Genius makes people nervous. It is hard to be around, because people feel they have to live up to it; in this case, they had to be as prepared, as talented and insightful as Andrew and that is difficult for people.” Afleck plays Robert Ford in the film, opposite Brad Pitt’s Jesse James.