![]() He posed for countless pictures, signed endless autographs, gave hugs and handshakes, and he even tended bar at L Street Tavern. Damon and Affleck were not big stars yet but Williams was and he was one of the most down to earth and generous guys you’d ever want to meet. When they were filming Good Will Hunting here in South Boston, the entire cast was visible all over town. You wanted someone like Sean Maguire from Southie on your side. Good Will Hunting was able to capture that spirit and show it to the world as something simple, good and endearing. I can see from a mile away and it pulls me in like a magnet. I recognize it sitting at a conference in another city – that person is from Southie. I recognize it in a stranger at the airport. There is something almost intangible about this quality of being from South Boston but I recognize it. His kindness, his strength, his pride, his conviction to standing up for what is right, makes me see my husband, my father, my brother and so many other men from South Boston. Now watching Good Will Hunting, I identify more with Robin Williams’ character – Sean Maguire. They were raised like me and I recognized it in the their mannerisms and expressions. ![]() There was a quality about them – a look, an expression, the scrappiness, the sense of humor – something that was comfortable and comforting at the same time. Growing up in Southie, I had many an encounter with variations of Will Hunting and Chuckie Sullivan (Ben Affleck). Through sessions with therapist Sean Maguire (also from South Boston – played by Robin Williams) – Will learns that his shitty childhood was “not his fault.”īack in 1997, the world caught a glimpse of what I understood and maybe even took for granted sometimes – the salt of the earth, generous, hilarious, and wonderful characters that make up South Boston. The story of the broken but lovable orphan/janitor/math genius from Southie, Will Hunting (Matt Damon) and his struggles coming to grip with the reality that he is extraordinary and deserves happiness. After Good Will Hunting debuted in movie theaters, people from all over the world caught a glimpse of Southie and fell in love. South Boston was always an under the radar, sometimes misunderstood, Irish Catholic working class neighborhood of Boston. On his shoulder.Good Will Hunting put us on the map. I think, as I recall, I put my hand on his arm, as these guys were talking. Now, memory is a funny thing, as we know, so you would have to ask him, but my recollection is we both were. This is what Damon has to say in that regard: That being said, Damon reveals in the same interview that he recalls Affleck crying right along with him in that moment when they watched Robin Williams and Stellan Skarsgård reciting words that they had written together. Having been in the business together for around 30 years, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck seem to be on the same page in a lot of cases work pretty seamlessly together. Just, I guess, a mixture of joy and disbelief. To see not only actors, but those actors, saying the stuff that we wrote, was like…fuck. And that was another one of those moments we never thought was going to arrive. ![]() The Stillwater star says that it happened when both he and Ben Affleck were behind the camera watching Robin Williams and Stellan Skarsgård work their magic, and the emotions came from watching those huge Hollywood names act in a film they wrote. In an interview with GQ, Matt Damon reveals that it didn’t take long at all for the water works to creep up on him when filming Good Will Hunting. While winning one of the most revered film awards Hollywood has to offer may be grounds for some tears shed, Damon has confirmed that the two filmmakers actually cried while filming Good Will Hunting, and what exactly started the flow of tears. The Last Duel wasn’t their first writing project that they underwent together though, as the 1997 film Good Will Hunting acted as both their writing debut and their first Oscar win at just 25 and 27 years old, respectively. Through the years both stars have established, celebrated careers in Hollywood. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon make quite the dynamic duo, recently writing and starring in the well-received film The Last Duel. ![]()
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