Matt Damon: What ‘messed me up’ for years — and how Ben Affleck saved me
nypost.comPeople Wednesday that Affleck kept him grounded as fame started to “mess” with his head in the early days of his career.“It’s been really helpful to check in with Ben throughout this whole surreal process over the last 25 years,” Damon said. “I think the shock of becoming famous is so … I mean, that messed me up for a couple years,” he added.
Affleck, 50, and Damon met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when they were young kids and bonded over a love of baseball and film.
The duo started out in Hollywood together after they graduated from high school and appeared in “School Ties” together in 1992.
They were catapulted onto the A-list after they wrote and starred in the 1997 Oscar-winning smash “Good Will Hunting.” During his interview, Damon explained how fame affected him after he became an A-list star. “The whole world just starts to treat you differently,” he recalled. “So your subjective experience changes.
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