Matt Damon revealed that he gave his best friend Ben Affleck a reality check that he wouldn’t make it past his good looks in high school theater.
The Jason Bourne star quipped that he wanted the air director to know his place when he joined his school theater because Damon was “the lord of the theater department”.
During an appearance on a recent episode of Smartless: Road, Damon told Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett how he dropped truth bombs on Affleck in high school.
“When he got to high school, I had to straighten him out because I owned that theater department,” Damon said on the show.
“And I went to it, like, the first day and drew it and was like, ‘Hey, you know it’s different in the theater,'” he added, to which Bateman shrugged, “You They immediately went straight to the shower.”
“‘You don’t get past your looks,'” Damon continued before joking, “And we were both like 5-foot-2.”
Damon also admitted that Affleck enjoyed celebrity-like status after starring in the after-school special, adding, “He was like the big star of our school.”
The pair became best friends and even wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting, a film in which they also starred together.
He also won his first Academy Award for Best Screenplay for the 1997 psychological drama film.
