Who knew Ben Affleck would need to dance in The Accountant 2?

While promoting the sequel to The Accountant with costar Jon Bernthal on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Affleck, 52, received some lighthearted critiques from host Kelly Clarkson over a scene in the film where he line dances.

“Watching you play the brother watching him was almost as entertaining as watching him line dance,” Clarkson, 43, told the duo, who reprise their roles as Christian Wolff and Brax in the action-packed thriller.

Bernthal, 48, told the host he initially thought “there’s no way this is making this is making it into the movie” when he read the line dancing scene in the script.

Despite his misgivings, Bernthal says Affleck getting onto action on the dance floor was “so beautiful.”

Clarkson doubled over with laughter when asking Affleck why the Oscar winner needed “multiple instructors” for the scene, to which the Argo star quipped “I did not need multiple instructors.”

As the host got up to demonstrate some line dancing of her own, Affleck pointed to her while looking at the audience, asking “Does that look easy to you?”

In the initial film The Accountant, directed by Gavin O’Connor, Affleck plays Christian, a highly skilled autistic mathematician who works as a freelance accountant for dangerous criminal organizations. When the U.S. Treasury Department begins to look into him, Christian takes an above-board job auditing the books at Living Robotics.

He’s forced to team up with in-house accountant Dana Cummings (Anna Kendrick) and they discover that CEO Lamar Blackburn (John Lithgow) has embezzled $60 million from the company. Once they’re targeted for discovering such information, Christian does everything he can to protect Dana. On top of it all, his professional and personal worlds collide when he learns that his long-lost brother Braxton (Bernthal) is leading a team of hitmen protecting Lamar.

Jon Bernthal, Ben Affleck, Kelly Clarkson on The Kelly Clarkson Show.Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal

In The Accountant 2, Christian recruits his “estranged and highly lethal brother” Braxton to solve the murder of Ray King (J.K. Simmons) — the director of the Treasury Department’s financial crimes bureau.

The ensemble will be joined by newcomers, including Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom‘s Daniella Pineda and Monsters‘ Grant Harvey.

The Accountant 2 arrives in theaters April 25, 2025.