Ben Affleck Says Friendship With Matt Damon Is ‘Lovely’

• Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s relationship goes again a long time, when their mothers launched them as children.
• Affleck informed BI on the “The Accountant 2” premiere that he does not have many shut associates.
• “You do not want one million associates. You want a number of,” Affleck stated.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s decadeslong friendship is valuable — simply ask Affleck.

“It is a lovely factor,” Affleck informed reporters on the pink carpet premiere of “The Accountant 2” on the SXSW Movie & TV Pageant Saturday. “You understand, I haven’t got very many — none of us actually have very many associates. You do not want one million associates. You want a number of. You want good ones.”

“I am actually fortunate to have had a good friend in Matt,” he added.

Affleck and Damon’s friendship extends again to their childhood, when their mothers launched them as children within the Nineteen Eighties. They’ve come a great distance since working as uncredited extras collectively on the 1989 Kevin Costner film “Subject of Desires,” together with profitable an Oscar collectively for writing “Good Will Searching” in 1998.

It isn’t simply Affleck who’s gushed about their friendship. In 2023, Damon mirrored on how his bond with Affleck modified after his dad died in 2017, calling his friendship with Affleck considered one of “the three most important partnerships” in his life.

Along with their busy appearing careers — Damon can subsequent be seen main the stacked forged of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” whereas Affleck returns for “The Accountant 2” in April — each have thriving behind-the-scenes careers as producers.

In 2022, they based Artists Fairness collectively, and “The Accountant 2” is among the movies they’ve produced. It is a far cry from their days sharing a checking account and hoping their energy would not get turned off.

“It has been very rewarding to create a possibility for different individuals, administrators and artists, to form of be capable of take accountability for and handle and have a extra inventive say of their tasks,” Affleck stated, including that “The Accountant 2” director Gavin O’Connor had a powerful imaginative and prescient for the movie. “We needed to set him as much as succeed, and I really feel like this film, frankly, actually validates that method.”

“The Accountant 2” is in theaters April 25.