Matt Damon says he’s been “really lucky” to keep away from residing beneath the identical media scrutiny Ben Affleck has for the final thirty years.
Though the careers of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have arguably adopted related paths (I’ll go away it as much as the remark part to resolve who’s the larger star), Damon hasn’t needed to face the identical scrutiny from the media as Affleck.
Damon spoke on the Radio Instances Podcast (by way of Folks) to say that he “can’t imagine” having all that spotlight over his head. “I’ve been really lucky in that way … especially when I look at Casey’s brother, Ben,” Damon stated. “I can’t think about residing beneath that sort of scrutiny. And it’s been like that for 25 years and we’ve had parallel careers in a number of methods and so I’m lucky to have been sort of excused from that a part of [it].“
As Affleck confronted relentless tabloid consideration due to his relationship(s) with Jennifer Lopez, Damon was spared as they discovered him boring. “That magazine culture that was so huge … 25 years ago, kind of ignored me,” Damon defined. “Proper, like a man who’s married, it’s so boring. What would promote these issues have been scandal and intercourse and all that stuff … and so long as you didn’t do any of that stuff it wasn’t actually value their time to attend to take your image, and so I ended up sort of getting left alone.“
The actor added that he initially discovered fame to be a “bizarre, disorienting feeling” when all he wished to do was work. “I just wanted to get to work and so I kind of hid for a few years while I got my bearings,” Damon stated. “Fortunately fell in love with somebody who was not within the enterprise who would tolerate that facet of it and that actually helped me.“
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have been working collectively extra continuously in the previous few years. Their subsequent challenge is alleged to be RIP, a criminal offense thriller written and directed by Joe Carnahan. Plot particulars are being saved beneath wraps, however they may even star in and produce by way of Artists Fairness. It was beforehand reported that capturing will get underway this fall. They’re additionally set to provide a Hulk Hogan biopic with Gus Van Sant in talks to direct, and there have even been rumblings that the pair might star within the film as properly.
