Sunday night’s Golden Globes Awards.Damon was sitting at his table without his tux jacket on, chatting away during a commercial break, when Affleck approached and put his arm around his old friend.
Damon, wearing a custom Giorgio Armani suit, gave Affleck a big bear hug as they both smiled broadly.Damon was seated next to his wife of nearly two decades, Luciana Barroso, at the time.Affleck and Damon, wearing matching tuxedos, later presented the Best Director – Motion Picture award to Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer.”Nolan directed Damon in the big-screen blockbuster starring Cillian Murphy.
Damon played Manhattan Project head General Leslie Groves. Murphy later won a Golden Globe as Best Actor for his role as Robert Oppenheimer, who developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II in 1945.Affleck and Damon have been friends since they were kids in the 1980s in Cambridge, Mass.
and their creative partnership spans 40-plus years.The played extras in the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams,” starring Kevin Costner, and would regularly travel together to New York City to audition for acting jobs.
Read more on nypost.com