Ben Affleck

It's not about the words.

It's about what's the scene about?

What's happening in the scene?

It gives them kind of a loose agenda of what's going to happen.

Yeah.

It really is.

Because what's also happening is that forces you to really listen.

Right.

And that is that is the hardest thing to kind of learn for young actors, I think, is is it's really all about listening.

And like I did a bunch of movies with Paul Greengrass and that's how he works, where he where you just know the agenda going in.

You know, some basic things that you know what your guy needs going in.

Like I was playing a chief warrant officer and I had to go through a door and there was a guy and I needed to interrogate him.

And this is what I needed to know from him.

I needed to secure the house with my guys and I needed to get to this guy.

We needed to make sure everybody here was secure.

And he put me with a bunch of real...

combat veterans and we fucking went in and, you know, they're the extras.

It's just being around the real people.

Well, it's also specific to this because it's based on this real tactical narcotics team in Miami.

And the guy who ran that, this guy, Chris Cassiano, is Joe's friend, and he's the guy that my character is based on.