Has Casey Affleck's awkward Colbert interview turned art into life?

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Back to the infamous, hilariously mangled Letterman interview that forms the centre point of Affleck's mockumentary on Joaquin Phoenix's faux-public breakdown, I'm Still Here. Letterman opened his own interview with Phoenix with a straightly delivered, "you look different than I remembered"; Letterman then compares Phoenix to the Unabomber, Colbert calls Affleck "street corner Jesus". Affleck's interview plays out like a ghosted tribute of Phoenix's Letterman showdown, like the primer for I'm Still Here 2: My Brother is Batman Edition. Conveniently, the pair are once more collaborating on a feature film project; though Affleck's Far Bright Star plays things straight with an adaptation of Robert Olmstead's novel on the perils of desert survival in 1916, with Phoenix in the lead as a cavalryman sent to hunt down Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.