Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are perhaps Hollywood’s most famous pal couple. The two Bostonians grew up in the same city and have known each other since they were teenagers. They also took the first steps in their careers together: they wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Good Will Hunting. Their film partnership is currently experiencing a new high. The acclaimed biopic Air was created in their newly formed production company. Affleck directed and played a supporting role; Damon took the lead role. As Ben Affleck said on The Late Show with James Corden, actor Damon beats roommate Damon by a mile.
‘Gave Up’: Matt Damon was a terrible roommate
Warning: All currently in a dysfunctional flat share live should stop reading now. Early in their careers, Matt Damon shared an apartment with Ben Affleck and his brother Casey. The brothers struggled with their roommate’s habits, according to Ben Affleck. Damon has the ability to block things out. This includes, for example, the concept “to wash or throw away something after using it”.
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting
Ben Affleck and his brother watched the chaos for a while – and finally took drastic action: they went on strike. Specifically, they didn’t clean after Damon for two weeks.
We wanted to see how long it would take for him to startle and say, ‘Oh god, I’m covered in trash.’
Whether Damon sensed the action or not, he won the feud.
We came home one day, Matt is sitting there in his shorts and t-shirt playing a game of hockey on a console in the middle of what was our living room, surrounded by garbage. […] I look down at a sushi thing that was a week and a half old and there are maggots.
The apartment had turned into a rubbish dump, hygienically questionable. Too much for Affleck and his brother: “We said, ‘We’re giving up, you’re too good. We can’t beat you.’ He just said, ‘Hey, what’s up guys?'”
What is Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s film Air about?
The sports shoe brand Nike is now a gigantic name that is known to everyone. However, things looked a little different in the 80s: Nike is more of a third choice behind its competitors at the time. Nike representative Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) is supposed to change that on behalf of his boss Phil Knight (Ben Affleck). But how?
The idea he pursued in 1984 seemed unattainable: if he could negotiate an exclusive deal with rising basketball star Michael Jordan, effectively making him the face of the brand, a coup might succeed. Just getting to Jordan is proving difficult. But Vaccaro won’t let up, even if it means besieging the likes of coach George Raveling (Marlon Wayans) and even Michael’s mother, Deloris Jordan (Viola Davis). A pair of very special shoes was born: the Air Jordans.
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