{"id":209,"date":"2025-05-20T22:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2025-05-22T05:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T05:03:21","slug":"idk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/famous-people-friendships\/idk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck &amp; Matt Damon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax\" style=\"min-height:576px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-220 size-full has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-9.59.00-PM.png)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-40 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#000000\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center alignwide has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:clamp(27.894px, 1.743rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 2.094), 48px);line-height:1.2\"><strong><em>Ben Affleck &amp; Matt Damon<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><br><\/strong>(Credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7cd14b77 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\"><strong>Who are they?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are American actors, screenwriters, and producers from Cambridge, Massachusetts who have frequently collaborated throughout their careers. The duo first gained recognition in 1997 after they won the\u00a0Academy  for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting, which they wrote and starred in together. Since then, they have kept a close public relationship, often working on projects and establishing businesses with one another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Matt Damon &amp; Ben Affleck Reveal Their First Impressions of Each Other | First Thing With | ELLE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o_7CQR1YlgM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7cd14b77 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\"><strong>Their Early Years<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;I was 8, he was 10, he was a big kid, he played baseball, he was really cool, he had a bowl cut\u2014those little feathered ones that we all wanted, of course\u2014and he\u2014 And he was, you know, nice to me. And we were both interested in the same things. Just kids who grew up two blocks apart and both wanted to be actors.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2014\u200aBen Affleck,\u00a0SmartLess, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Damon&#8217;s mother, Lesley University professor Nancy Carlsson Paige, and Affleck&#8217;s mother, schoolteacher Chris Affleck-Boldt, had known each other professionally for some time when, in 1980, they introduced their sons to one another during a playdate at Affleck&#8217;s home. At the time, Damon was 10 years old, and Affleck was 8. Their homes were two blocks from each other in the same Cambridge neighborhood; the two later named their production company, Pearl Street Flims, after the Cambridge street they walked on to visit one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two became close during their high school years at\u00a0Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public high school with a prominent drama department. Damon says that their friendship solidified during a pick-up football game in 1986, when Affleck, &#8220;at the risk of his own life&#8221;, intervened in a fight between Damon and a much larger and older student. That same year, in a school production of The Visit, Damon, then a junior, played freshman Affleck&#8217;s father. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two aspired to become professional actors, holding &#8220;business lunches&#8221; in their school&#8217;s cafeteria and opening a joint checking account to fund the cost of traveling from Boston to\u00a0New York City for auditions. The password was RiverP, \u00a0an homage to actor River Phoenix, whom Damon and Affleck both admired. Among the films for which they unsuccessfully auditioned was Dead Poets Society; in 1990, they worked together at Cambridge&#8217;s now-closed Janus Theater, which screened the film exclusively all summer. In 1989, the duo played extras in Field of Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7cd14b77 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2007 episode of Inside the Actors Studio, Damon revealed that he&#8217;d been accpeted to Colombia University, Carneige Mellon University, and Havard University, ultimately choosing Harvard. He enrolled in 1988 and studied English. During a course in which he was tasked with writing a one-act play, he wrote the beginnings of what would become Good Will Hunting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Affleck enrolled at the\u00a0University of Vermont in 1990, owing to what he describes as &#8220;unrequited love for a high school girlfriend.&#8221; Soon after classes began, he fractured his hip during a game of intramural basketball, an injury which required him to move about on crutches. Describing the period as &#8220;the worst two and a half months of [his] life,&#8221; Affleck eventually called Damon at\u00a0Thanksgiving saying, &#8220;&#8216;You&#8217;ve got to pick me up! I can&#8217;t walk that well. Come and get me now!'&#8221; Damon drove to Vermont later that day, retrieving Affleck and bringing him back to Boston. Affleck did not re-enroll, instead beginning a period of Middle Eastern Studies at Occidental College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7cd14b77 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\"><strong>Other Films:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 2025, the pair has collaborated on a total of 14 films, many of which received overwhelmingly positive reviews. In alignment with their work with Miramax and Kevin Smith, they have occasionally parodied their past roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-9.56.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-9.56.14-PM.png 843w, https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-9.56.14-PM-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-9.56.14-PM-768x581.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"845\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-9.57.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-9.57.17-PM.png 845w, https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-9.57.17-PM-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/lguillen04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-9.57.17-PM-768x467.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are they? 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