HOLLYWOOD BROMANCE: They've been hanging out since school days, and it all started when Affleck 'saved Damon's life'
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are proof that true friendships in Hollywood really do exist.
The two of them are the definition of the word ‘bromance’, and even when we’re talking about two big Hollywood faces, then that term is even sweeter. Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have been good friends since childhood, and Hollywood did not separate them at all, but just the opposite.
They grew up together in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they began hanging out when Matt was ten and Ben was eight. Since then, they have both become big acting stars, and have even worked together on several projects. The most successful, however, was the film 'Good Will Hunting', for which they wrote the screenplay together, and then won an Oscar in 1997. To celebrate, they rented a house on the beach, called 800 people, and had parties. ‘Then we ran out of money so we had to rent an apartment,’ Affleck said in an interview, revealing that there were roommates in several apartments and even in several cities.
In a 2016 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Damon talked about his long-standing friendship with Affleck. 'I've known him for 35 years, we grew up together. We were in love with the same thing - acting and making movies. We fed each other's obsession through important years that brought us together forever, ' he said at the time.
And the story of the beginning of their friendship is very interesting.
‘It was a snowy day sometime in the 1980s and the kids from the neighborhood gathered for a snow football game. I scored a goal for that one guy or something had already happened that made him pounce on me. But the thing is that he was almost 6'5, while at that time I was only 5'2 ', Damon revealed in an interview and continued.
‘Before I even started thinking I was already on the ground and he was above me. ‘This is going to be bad’, is the only thing that came to my mind. Then little 5'2 Ben Affleck ran up and took this one off me and risked his life for it. That's when I realized that this is the friend I want to have ', the actor concluded.
By: Olivia J. - Gossip Whispers
