Name: Matt Damon & Ben Affleck Were Temporarily “Allergic” To Collaborating | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
Uploaded: 2026-01-17T17:21:23.000Z
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I wanted to talk to you because about this current movie, the rip, which is fascinating to me.

First of all, I knew nothing about the movie when I watched it.

Past simple

And one of the things that I didn't realize is that, oh, you're in this with.

I knew nothing, which is not the way you usually experience a movie these days.

But someone arranged, oh, Conan can watch the movie.

And it's a movie that you have made with Ben.

This is such a loaded situation for you guys now.

Because in a very nice way, in a complimentary way, it's, you know, it's this dynamic duo getting back together.

But I don't know if you feel the weight of that at all when you guys worked together.

We did the movie Air together a few years ago that Ben directed, and he's also.

We're both in it together, you know, and we started this little studio together a few years ago.

And one of the reasons that we started it, like, I was watching that Beatles documentary, the Peter Jackson one.

And at the end of that documentary, there's this incredible scene when they play on the roof right.

You see them, you know, the cops show up and McCartney turns around, he's like, what the fuck?

And then Peter Jackson put this chiron up and it said, this is the last time the Beatles played live together.

My youngest was, I think 11 at the time, and.

And she just goes, dad, why are you crying?

And tears were just pouring down my face because it was like, what.

It made me so sad that these guys who were just, you know, this was it.

They couldn't get past whatever it was that wouldn't allow them to kind of keep doing it together.

Because I think, you know, this was our dream and our lives from the time we were teenagers, and

it was something we did together and we wanted to do movies together and we wrote Good Will Hunting together and starred in it together and, you know, all of that.

And I think after that, I think we were like, oh, well, we should try to make names for ourselves individually.

So I think we were a little allergic to working together for.

I mean, we were still very connected and, you know, saw each other all the time.

But after a success of that magnitude, you don't want to get locked in.

And we had done, you know, Kevin Smith's movie Dogma together right after that.

So we were kind of like, all right, we should chill.

And then suddenly a couple decades went by, and

it was like, now we're in our 50s, we're starting this company, and

It doesn't have to be a Stop the presses.

It's like, we just like working together.

And also, what's evident in the movie is you guys have a connection.

When you have scenes together, there's a connection that you can't manufacture.

It's very clear that you two really love.

You're clicked in, and you're two characters in this movie.

There are times where you just want to kill each other.

And then as you go on, many things are revealed and you understand what their true dynamic is.

You couldn't have figured that out with an acting coach if you didn't know each other.

I don't think it helps to have that kind of.

We also did, by the way, the Last Duel, another movie that we wrote with, you know, so we're trying.

But, yeah, no, I think that that connection definitely, obviously, kind of loads every scene in a different way.

I was very intense all the time, thinking about every move.

And as I've gotten older, I am much more interested in being with people that I really like, that I love making things with them and enjoying myself, because I.

And it comes a little bit from a place of, oh, who cares?

You know, I mean, I just want to do this.

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