In addition to reuniting with several of the “Clerks” actors who helped launch their careers back in 1994, Clerks III gave Kevin Smith another chance to direct his longtime friend Ben Affleck in a cameo role — and pay tribute to their longstanding friendship with a very insider joke.
The two previously worked together on several early-career films, including “Mallrats,” “Chasing Amy,” “Dogma,” and “Jersey Girl,” Smith said. diverse At the new movie’s Hollywood premiere on Chinese 6, Affleck was very keen to appear in a cameo as one of several famous faces – including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Danny Trejo, and Melissa Benoist – to audition for a role in the film. . Movie within a movie filmed by Quick Stop employees.
‘It was like, ‘I’m there. It’s going to be great.’ He came on for an hour and, after several years of estrangement, rekindled their friendship after a nearly fatal heart attack, Smith said. They worked together again on the 2019 movie “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.” Smith recently attended Affleck’s wedding to Jennifer Lopez in Georgia.
Smith said he couldn’t resist falling for an inside joke just for Affleck’s amusement. “I wrote him a portion of this old message board we had at Viewaskew.com,” Smith said, referring to the movie-oriented website he founded in the late 1990s. “He was always fascinated by how much time I had on it, and he was like, ‘Who are these people? Why are you talking to them? I was like, “Because they’re my bosses; they’re actually buying tickets. Don’t care what the critic says. This is the guy who paid to see the movie.”
Smith said Affleck eventually couldn’t resist engaging with fans on message boards under a pseudonym, and one day was shocked by the vitriol targeting Smith of a poster called “Boston John.” “[Boston John] He goes, ‘How, the painting sucks. Not what it was before. Turn it off.’ And Affleck found it hysterical.He was like, “This guy named Boston John is literally telling you what to do with your life!”
“So when we were going out to do the audition scene, I handed him the pages and looked [at his character’s name] And he was like “Boston John, pimp!” Smith laughed, noting that Affleck had been careful to put his Boston vocals on the character’s surging noise. He slipped into his accent, laughed Smith, “and used Cambridge too.”
The premiere featured another reunion of Smith’s extended squad of regular cast, including original “Clerks” players Brian O’Loran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mews, Marilyn Gigliotti, and Clerks II’s Rosario Dawson, as well as Smith’s wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, daughter Harley Quinn Smith, and boyfriend Austin. Zagor, all of whom also appeared in the new film.
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