Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s childhood friendship and subsequent rise to fame is the stuff of Hollywood legend, with the 2 being launched by means of their mothers as youngsters after they have been rising up only a block and a half away from each other in Boston, Massachusetts.
It was throughout this time that the 2 males began engaged on their very own script for a film you might have heard of: Good Will Searching. This ended up being the launchpad for his or her glittering Hollywood careers, catapulting each Ben and Matt to international fame within the late ‘90s.
Quick ahead 26 years, and Ben and Matt are nonetheless greatest associates and two of probably the most well-known actors within the trade.
And Matt mirrored on this stark distinction throughout a latest look on the Radio Instances podcast with Ben’s brother, Casey Affleck. Reflecting on how “fortunate” he has been on the subject of stardom, Matt admitted that he wouldn’t have been capable of deal with the “scrutiny” that Ben is subjected to.
Casey then remarked that Matt “navigated” his rise to fame very well, and Matt stated that he thinks it is a results of him throwing himself into his work, and in the end marrying anyone who wasn’t well-known.
Matt then recalled one of many solely occasions that he was photographed by paparazzi whereas he was residing in New York, saying that it was quickly after his youngest daughter, Stella, was born in 2010.
Discussing Ben instantly, Matt added: “I can’t think about residing beneath that sort of scrutiny, and it’s been like that for 25 years. We’ve had parallel careers in lots of methods, and so I’m lucky to have been sort of excused from that a part of it.”
