Ben Affleck and Matt Damon hoped Good Will Looking would achieve success, partially, as a result of they needed to use it to land extra appearing roles. Throughout an interview on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, Affleck and Damon mirrored on writing and starring within the movie, with Affleck admitting they have been ‘shocked’ the film was launched in any respect.
Ben Affleck stated he and Matt Damon have been shocked about ‘Good Will Hunting’ success
Throughout an Oct. 13 look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, Affleck and Damon mentioned their new film The Final Duel, which brings them collectively as co-stars and writers once more.
The 2 got an opportunity to mirror on their work collectively on Good Will Looking when Fallon confirmed a photograph from the film’s premiere. “You wouldn’t imagine that those two idiots would still be around,” Affleck joked, including, “Not sure what was going through my head there, looks a little like a Zoolander…”
Getting the film made turned out to be stunning, nevertheless, as Affleck shared, “I think we were just shocked that it all happened and wouldn’t have imagined getting another job.”
He went on to clarify that their “ambition” behind writing and starring within the film was a method for them to exhibit their abilities and hopefully get extra roles.
“The whole thing of Good Will Hunting was really just to make — at the time — a video cassette that was like an acting reel,” Affleck defined. “Like, we can’t get the job to show that we can do interesting stuff, so the whole thing was have a reel and show casting directors, and so we’ll write these parts for ourselves … that was our ambition so I think we were shocked that it even got released.”
Affleck and Damon admitted the ‘Good Will Hunting’ expertise ‘put us off writing again’
Although Good Will Looking was profitable, they didn’t proceed to pursue writing — till now, 25 years later, largely as a result of the method was so time-consuming. “Good Will Hunting took us so long… we were like unemployed, broke guys. It took us forever to write that screenplay,” Damon admitted. “I think we wrote thousands and thousands of pages. We didn’t really know what we were doing.”
He continued, “And I think that kind of put us off writing again because we never thought we’d have the time.”
After working efficiently on different motion pictures since Good Will Looking, they found the instruments to tighten up the writing course of quite a bit. “And I think we found writing this that we actually kind of picked up structure over the last 25 years of kind of making movies, and so it went a lot faster…,” Damon added. “Then we also made the really good decision of getting a great writer [Nicole Holofcener] to come with us.”