The world found out last week that Michael Jordan personally selected Viola Davis to play his mother, Deloris Jordan, in the new movie, “Air” — and apparently so did Davis.
In a red-carpet interview with People magazine at the South by Southwest film festival, the EGOT winner reacted Saturday to “Air” director Ben Affleck‘s recent revelation that Jordan instructed him to cast Davis in the historical drama about the basketball legend’s culture-shifting brand deal with Nike.
“I’m just hearing about it now,” said Davis, who told People she was “flattered” upon learning that Jordan requested her. “It blew my mind. I’m glad I didn’t know about it before.”
