Matt Damon Made Three Movies With Ben Affleck After Crying Over the Beatles’ Breakup and Realizing They Can Never Stop Acting Together: ‘Who Cares If We Oversaturate the Marketplace?’

In a new interview with GQ magazine, the longtime friends and “Good Will Hunting” Oscar winners said they don’t have any plans to stop working together. Damon said it dawned on him that he needed to keep making films with Affleck after he watched Peter Jackson’s 2021 Beatles documentary “Get Back,” which ends on a final title card that says the band never worked together again. Damon had tears in his eyes and immediately thought about Affleck.

“Who cares if we oversaturate the marketplace with movies we’re both in?” Damon said. “We’re crazy if we don’t take advantage of the fact that we are both still here and able to do this.”

“Every time I act with Matt is a humbling experience because I learn to appreciate further just how good an actor he is,” Affleck added to GQ “He is so understated, so real and so honest—it’s the opposite of a ‘showy’ performance, and I think what he does is more difficult. When you know someone as long as I’ve known Matt, you develop a pretty good sense of what is real and what isn’t and it’s almost impossible to catch Matt acting. He is really a master of realism and it’s something I deeply admire about him. One of many things.”