Matt Damon and Casey Affleck go way back – more than four decades, in fact.
“We have this 43-year history together,” Damon, 53, says of Casey, 48, and his brother Ben Affleck in this week’s issue of PEOPLE. “We grew up together.”
The Boston, Massachusetts natives’ “shared experience and relationship, trust and love” is what makes collaborating on films like Promoters (currently in theaters and on Apple TV+ from August 9) such a natural process. “There’s a fundamental understanding of who we are,” he says.
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“There’s a whole language in our business that’s created around trying to protect people’s feelings because it’s the human ego,” Damon adds. He and Casey “waste no time in diplomacy, which I love.”
Damon stars in the new heist comedy directed by Doug Liman as Rory, a father who teams up with Casey’s ex-con, Cobby, to rob a corrupt politician. “When a heist goes wrong, the two find themselves in a whirlwind of chaos, pursued not only by the police but also by backward bureaucrats and vengeful crime bosses,” reads the synopsis. Co-authored by Chuck MacLean and Casey, Promoters actors Hong Chau, Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Walter Hauser, Alfred Molina and Ron Perlman.
It also takes place in and was filmed in the city where the lead duo spent their childhood. for Casey, Promoters was a chance to reconnect with roots that included growing up with Ben, now 51, and Damon. “Boston has changed a lot,” Casey notes. “It’s really not the town we grew up in.
“On the other hand, it’s a place where I still feel more at home than anywhere else. So that says something about what a place does to you as you grow. I will forever be associated with this place no matter how much it changes.”
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Promoters.
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Damon’s memories of making Hollywood dreams come true alongside the Affleck brothers in the years leading up to their 1997 Oscar success. Good Will Hunting it included that in Boston “they are not afraid to be vulnerable with each other as young men.”
“Part of being an actor and putting yourself in those positions and constantly being rejected — knowing that someone else is living the same life and making the same sacrifices, that shared sense of experience, so we’d get together and hang out together and talk about it,” Damon recalls.
Promoters is in theaters now and begins streaming on Apple TV+ on August 9.
Jordan Fein reports
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