Earlier than their success in Good Will Looking, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon shared a checking account for years. The performing duo has been associates since highschool, celebrating many successes and supporting one another by arduous occasions. Affleck and Damon finally went on to win an Oscar collectively for his or her Good Will Looking script. They’ve continued to help one another with a number of collaborations all through their careers, together with their most up-to-date movie Air.
Affleck and Damon appeared on The Invoice Simmons Podcast collectively (by way of IndieWire) and shared tales of their begin, together with once they shared a checking account. The actors revealed that within the late Eighties, they supported one another financially. It stored the duo going whereas they seemed for alternatives, and Affleck stated he nonetheless has a checkbook. Take a look at what Damon needed to say beneath:
It was uncommon, however we wanted the cash for auditions, a bizarre factor on reflection. So long as one in all us had cash we knew the facility wasn’t going to get shut off. After doing [1992’s] ‘Geronimo’ I in all probability had 35 grand within the financial institution. I used to be like, ‘We’re good for a 12 months.’
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon’s Friendship Has Advantages
Affleck and Damon’s partnership by the years allowed the pair to navigate Hollywood collectively. Now nearly 30 years later, they’re sticking collectively by their varied successes with Affleck and Damon collaborating on films and persevering with to share alternatives. Good Will Looking was the primary time the 2 led a challenge collectively, as they wrote their first screenplay and starred within the movie. It was an enormous success, touchdown them on the Academy Awards and solidifying their place in Hollywood.
After their win, Affleck and Damon went on to make Kevin Smith’s Dogma, a buddy comedy that additional established their onscreen chemistry and enduring partnership. The actors cameoed in one another’s movies, produced a documentary collectively, and continued their collaboration for a number of years earlier than Affleck and Damon returned to screenwriting with 2021’s The Final Duel, their first script collectively since 1997.
The actors have come a great distance since writing Good Will Looking, and their friendship performed a major function of their success. Affleck and Damon have gone from struggling to get auditions to now beginning their very own manufacturing firm, Artist’s Fairness. With this new firm, audiences can count on many Affleck and Damon collaborations to return, with their first film Air reaching theaters on April 5.
Supply: The Invoice Simmons Podcast (by way of IndieWire)