The two actors made their Hollywood debut on the Bill Simmons podcast, which aired on Wednesday, March 22, and revealed valuable anecdotes.
They dived into the 1980s, a decade that hadn’t yet seen Ben Affleck and Matt Damon hatch. Guests on CNBC’s “Bill Simmons Podcast,” the two actors revisited their childhoods in Hollywood long before the 1998 Oscar. Will Hunting. The duo, who became close in high school, discovered they once shared a bank account. All to fund travel and other accommodations while they went casting. “It was weird, but we needed it to go to the audition,” Matt Damon said, admitting it “seemed weird later.”
“We wanted to help each other”
Ben Affleck, meanwhile, insisted on the mutual support that the two friends have always given each other. “We wanted to help each other and be there for each other,” he explained. It was like him. “You won’t be alone, I won’t be alone” is his stamp on this shared account. “As long as one of us had money, we knew the power wouldn’t go out,” Ben Affleck said. After my participation Geronimo (1992), I had about $35,000 (€32,000) in my account. I said to myself. “We can last a year with that.”
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Rules of use
However, both actors have set some rules for using this bank account. “With that money, we could go to auditions in New York,” said Ben Affleck. We were also allowed to withdraw $10 (€9) and change to go to the gallery and play video games. At the end, you could even buy beer with (…)”. Four decades later, the duo have launched their own production company, Artists Equity, and are set to perform together Air, biopic looking back at the partnership between Nike and Michael Jordan. A way for Ben Affleck, who was advised not to work with Matt Damon again, to wash away his regrets.
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Source: Le Figaro
