Overview
- Affleck, 53, and Damon, 55, promoted their Netflix crime thriller The Rip with a Jan. 13 New York premiere ahead of its Jan. 16 streaming launch.
- During a Jan. 12 Howard Stern interview, Damon recalled that his wife, Luciana Barroso, once thought Affleck was “the cute one” after seeing Good Will Hunting.
- Barroso is credited as a producer on The Rip and is set to produce Affleck’s next directing project, Animals, underscoring the trio’s close working ties.
- Affleck and Damon revisited their Good Will Hunting $600,000 payday, joking that taxes and fees sharply reduced what they actually took home.
- At the premiere and in TV appearances, the longtime collaborators reflected on their four-decade bond, with Affleck praising Damon as both a friend and a father.