Casey Affleck on ‘Our Friend’ and How Directing Has Changed Him as an Actor

With director Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Our Friend now playing in select theaters and On Demand thanks to Gravitas Ventures and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, I recently got to speak with Casey Affleck about being part of such an inspiring movie. If you haven’t seen the trailer, Our Friend is based on the Esquire article “The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word” by Matthew Teague and is about a family (Dakota Johnson and Affleck) dealing with terminal cancer and the close friend (Jason Segel) that