Everybody is aware of that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have a lifelong and “bizarrely shut” friendship that’s seen them work collectively a number of occasions over the many years. Whereas the 2025 film schedule will see their upcoming movie, RIP (which you’ll be capable of watch together with your Netflix subscription), debut, Damon is presently engaged on The Odyssey with out his longtime pal, and Affleck simply managed to roast and applaud his buddy for the way he’s gotten in form.
What Did Ben Affleck Say About Matt Damon Getting In Form For The Odyssey?
The world obtained their first have a look at Christopher Nolan’s 2026 movie, The Odyssey, in mid-February with a shot of a buff Matt Damon dressed for battle as Odysseus. Since then, we’ve seen The Bourne Identification star shirtless on set, and Ben Affleck was not too long ago requested by Leisure Tonight about his buddy’s bodily transformation to play the hero. When the Argo Oscar winner was handed the picture of Damon, he mentioned:
Take a look at my man making an attempt to behave like he didn’t know they had been taking this image. You already know what I imply? No person’s fooled. You went on the market and flexed. Any person informed him the paparazzi had been on the market. [Points at Damon’s abs] That’s some shit like it’s important to be like [makes flexing noise] doing this, you already know what I imply? It’s not like this was informal.
Ah, sure. What sort of friendship do you actually have for those who and your comrades can’t roast one another sometimes, proper? Wanting on the picture, Damon seems so lean that it does kinda appear like he will need to have tensed all his muscle mass up and sucked in his abdomen to verify he regarded additional agency within the behind-the-scenes shot. However, we additionally know that it’s tremendous frequent for actors to tackle roles like this and put themselves by way of robust coaching/eating regimen regimens to get a physique that basically suits their character, and the Air expertise seems to have completed simply that.
In fact, being in what’s presumably the longest-standing Hollywood bromance ever implies that even if Affleck and Damon disagree or poke enjoyable at one another, they’ll at all times help one another.
The truth is, Damon attended The Accountant 2 premiere not way back to face by his buddy, and Affleck famous then that he’s been “fortunate” to have his Good Will Searching collaborator in his life for therefore lengthy. So, he needed to give it up for his buddy’s dedication to getting constructed to painting Odysseus…form of:
No, I’ve to respect it, it’s a number of laborious work. It would not get any simpler when you might have the very lengthy grey beard. I don’t know what that’s like, what’s it wish to get it grey like that?
WOW. Coming for his buddy’s age out right here! We all know it’s all in good enjoyable, particularly contemplating that Affleck is just two years youthful than his buddy, they usually each nonetheless carry out as many stunts of their 50s as they’ll for his or her motion roles. He continued:
However he’s getting it completed. He seems to be nice. I believe that is going to be an awesome film. That’s one of many issues about Matt that I respect, amongst so many issues, is that he simply works very laborious and you may see it right here. It requires a physique for the function, and he’s gotta be this warrior. He’ll go get it completed.
Awww! See there? It took a bit to get to it, however there’s that concord and help we’ve come to so completely take pleasure in each time Affleck and Damon speak about each other. I can’t wait to look at these two pal it up at The Odyssey‘s premiere.