Matt Damon Says It Was Painful to Be Ben Afflecks Friend When He Dated Jennifer Lopez
Matt Damon defended his best friend, Ben Affleck, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. He says Affleck has a different personality than what’s perceived by the public, and added, “There’s nobody who’s more misunderstood.”
Damon said, “Ten years ago, the public image of him could not have been farther apart from who he actually is. It was like he was being cast in a role, that he was a talentless kind of meathead, with his whole relationship with Jennifer Lopez.”
Damon explained, “He just got cast as this person that he wasn’t. It was painful to be his friend, because it wasn’t fair, you know? To my mind, nobody really got him at all.”
Affleck’s all-time career low is widely considered to be “Gigli,” the critical and box office bomb he starred in with Lopez.
Damon says Affleck redeemed himself with successful films like the Oscar-winning Argo (which he also directed) and Gone Girl.