
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have been pals for the final 4 many years.
Each actors first met as youngsters within the early Eighties because of them dwelling two blocks away from one another in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to being good pals, Damon and Affleck are additionally collaborators and have labored on just a few movies collectively, together with ‘Good Will Searching,’ and their most up-to-date challenge, the 2023 sports activities movie, ‘Air.’
Nevertheless, there was a small interval when Damon and Affleck have been allegedly not talking to 1 one other, and it apparently needed to do with Affleck’s burgeoning relationship with Jennifer Lopez the primary time round.
Matt Damon stopped chatting with Ben Affleck for months when he started courting Jennifer Lopez in 2002.
Earlier than Affleck and Lopez rekindled their relationship in 2021, the 2 had first begun courting in 2002 and have been engaged, earlier than ultimately breaking apart. Through the starting of Affleck and Lopez’s relationship, although, Damon voiced issues about their relationship with Affleck.
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In line with OK Journal, a supply revealed that Damon was nervous about how the publicity from Affleck’s relationship with Lopez was affecting his profession.
“All the eye went to his head, and when Matt voiced his issues about what it could do to Ben’s profession, they’d a falling out,” the supply claimed. “They didn’t converse for months, however Ben lastly got here to his senses and realized Matt was solely searching for him.”
It appears Damon additionally publicly admitted how he felt about Lopez’s affect on Affleck’s profession throughout a 2015 GQ interview, and revealed that it was “painful” for him to observe Affleck endure. “Ten years in the past, the general public picture of [Affleck] couldn’t have been farther other than who he truly is,” Damon advised the publication.
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“It was like he was being solid in a job, that he was a talentless sort of meathead, along with his complete relationship with Jennifer Lopez… He simply received solid as this person who he wasn’t. It was simply actually painful. It was painful to be his pal, as a result of it wasn’t honest, ? To my thoughts, no one actually received him in any respect.”
Affleck himself additionally claimed that his relationship with Lopez and the quantity of press that surrounded it negatively impacted his profession. In a 2007 interview with Particulars journal, by way of PEOPLE, Affleck opened up about his picture being ruined throughout his 2002 to 2004 relationship with Lopez.
“What occurs on this form of bleed-over from the tabloids throughout your film work,” Affleck defined. “I ended up in an unlucky crosshair place the place I used to be in a relationship and [the media] principally lied and inflated a bunch of salacious stuff for the sake of promoting magazines. And I paid a sure worth for that.”
Now, Damon is nothing however supportive of Affleck and Lopez’s second-chance romance.
Following Affleck and Lopez’s rekindling, Damon appears extra supportive and on board with their relationship and was even current at their August 2022 marriage ceremony ceremony in Georgia.
A supply advised Leisure Tonight earlier this month that the ‘Jason Bourne’ actor is thrilled about Affleck and Lopez’s marriage.
“[Damon] loves Jen and thinks she is one of the best factor that has occurred to Ben. Matt is glad Ben is so pleased,” the supply advised the publication. “Issues are going nice for Ben each career-wise and in his private life. He seems like he can and can do something he desires to perform in life now that he has Jen backing him and supporting him.”
Earlier than Affleck and Lopez’s marriage ceremony, in July 2021, Damon had nothing however form phrases to say concerning the couple throughout an interview with Jess Cagle on his Sirius XM present. The actor joked that he would not be something apart from pleased realizing that Affleck and Lopez have been as soon as once more again in one another’s lives.
“How else would I be?” Damon quipped about his emotions. “Like, would I be sad? Like, ‘I hate real love.'” He additionally shared his finest needs for the couple jokingly including, “I want them nothing, however , hardship.”
Nia Tipton is a Brooklyn-based leisure, information, and life-style author whose work delves into modern-day points and experiences.