Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s childhood friendship and subsequent rise to fame is the stuff of Hollywood legend, with the 2 being launched via their mothers as youngsters once they had 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’ll 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 world fame within the late ‘90s.
Quick ahead 26 years, and Ben and Matt are nonetheless finest buddies and two of essentially the most well-known actors within the business.
And Matt mirrored on this stark distinction throughout a current look on the Radio Instances podcast with Ben’s brother, Casey Affleck. Reflecting on how “fortunate” he has been in the case 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 this can be a results of him throwing himself into his work, and in the end marrying any individual who wasn’t well-known.
Matt then recalled one of many solely occasions that he was photographed by paparazzi whereas he was dwelling in New York, saying that it was quickly after his youngest daughter, Stella, was born in 2010.
Discussing Ben straight, Matt added: “I can’t think about dwelling below that type of scrutiny, and it’s been like that for 25 years. We’ve had parallel careers in a number of methods, and so I’m lucky to have been type of excused from that a part of it.”
