Kevin Costner became the world star in the late 1980s and, after his success in Brian de Palma’s crime thriller, stood the incorruptible for two sports films in front of the camera. In addition to Annie’s men, the fantasy drama of the dreams of Phil Alden Robinson, in which Costner plays a farmer, was playing a baseball field and then experiencing a miracle after the next.
What Costner could not have guessed when shooting is that among the stasists of the film two world stars in SPE Waren who cheered him from the stands.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck had extras roles in the field of dreams with Kevin Costner
In the scene from the game in Fenway Park, the two friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck sit among many other statists: inside on the stage. The later world stars were around 15 and 17 years old. In order to recognize the two in the scene, you have to stop this picture for image and take a closer look. In the following clip, try to find the two actors in the crowd:
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Kevin Costner still remembered Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, although they were only extras
Even if Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were two extras among many, Kevin Costner was able to remember them later. In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel (via Deadline) he said that he had never forgotten her enthusiastic faces:
I remember her. They sat like students in the stands, […] They leaned back happily and looked at each other as we spoke. And they were fulfilled by great enthusiasm. They were all excited. I remember exactly you!
Kimmel then read a text message from Matt Damon, who also remembered the filming of the Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner. The moment was special for him for a certain reason:
I remember it well. For me there was a poster of the incorruptible on the wall. Hung between the Takes [Kevin Costner] around with the extras. […] That was very important to us because He had exactly the career we wanted. He was very nice to us.
Eight years later, Damon and Affleck won the Oscar for the best original script for Good Will. Today the two are among the greatest Hollywood stars of their generation.
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