LOS ANGELES, April 5 (UPI) — Director and co-star Ben Affleck said that Air, in theaters Wednesday, originally made Michael Jordan a more central character before Jordan directed the filmmakers’ attention to his family and mentors.
Air is set in 1984, when Nike exec Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) persuaded Jordan to be the face of Nike’s basketball shoes. Jordan never appears on screen in the film.
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