Ben Affleck Shares How He And Matt Damon Went ‘Broke In Six Months’ After Selling Their ‘Good Will Hunting’ Screenplay

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Ben Affleck is looking back on some of his youthful mistakes. This week, the “Air” star and director was on “The Drew Barrymore Show” and recalled how he and Matt Damon blew through all their money after selling “Good Will Hunting”. READ MORE: Ben Affleck Shares ‘Upsetting Fact’ About Jennifer Lopez: She Eats ‘Whatever She Wants’ And Looks ‘Spectacular’ Barrymore explained that she had understood that Affleck and Damon had a shared bank account when they were starting out, and had spent all their money before finally selling their screenplay, which they would end up winning an Oscar for. “That is a little bit out of order, but it is accurate.

What happened was, we did share a bank account, and I always thought it was perfectly normal,” Affleck corrected her. “We would work a little bit.

We would do extra work, or a line here and there, the occasional Burger King commercial, and then take that money and put it in the account,” he explained. “We were friends, and we wanted each other to succeed, and we love each other, so it seemed clear, ‘Let’s do this together.'” The actor continued, “In retrospect it was really valuable, because I think starting out in a field like that can feel very lonely.

But we shared that bank account into our 20s, even to when we lived and wrote ‘Good Will Hunting’ in a house in Eagle Rock, which is a neighbourhood in Los Angeles, which was at the time a very inexpensive neighbourhood, and very far from all the places you had to go to audition.” READ MORE: Ben Affleck Recalls Finding ‘Maggots’ In His Apartment After Matt Damon Refused To Clean: ‘I Would Not Suggest Living With Him’ Things changed, though, when they finally sold the script, though perhaps things had not changed quite as