The film went on to net an impressive nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and Damon and Affleck went on to grin their way into the cultural consciousness with a borderline giddy acceptance speech for Best Original Screenplay. When the Good Will Hunting screenplay, act I of which Damon originally penned as part of a Harvard drama class assignment, was languishing at Castle Rock, Smith brought it to Harvey “ yes-I-really-read-the-script” Weinstein, and the rest is tinsel town history. Watch ‘Good Will Hunting’ on Tribeca Shortlist now.
(Presumably, this prescient bit of quid pro quo is how Smith convinced a post- Gigli Bennifer to do Jersey Girl.) But in the 90s, they were hard Boston, complete with heavy Beantown brogues, a love of Dunkin Donuts coffee, and an original script that may have been stuck in rewrite purgatory forever if it hadn’t been for the help of Affleck’s Chasing Amy connect, Kevin Smith.
Now, Matt and Ben are bonafide Hollywood, with the meme-inspiring superhero and superspy franchises to prove it. But back in 1997, he was just a footnote - a mostly ad-libbed footnote, in fact - on the Cinderella bromance story of big brother Ben and his hometown bestie, Matt.
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Hey world, meet Matt Damon and the brothers Affleck.Īs we head full force into awards season 2017, Casey Affleck is riding high on a wave of Manchester by the Sea Oscar buzz, helped along handily by Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award nominations that have largely overshadowed recently resurfaced sexual harassment allegations.
‘Good Will Hunting’ Image courtesy Miramax
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