Ben Affleck Praises Matt Damon’s ‘Odyssey’ Choice Inspired by Christopher Nolan

Matt Damon’s formula for picking projects has always left old pal Ben Affleck in awe. As you may know, there is this upcoming Christopher Nolan project that the who’s who in Hollywood are all being gathered for.

Think Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron and so on and so forth.

However, the main person to take up the titular role is Matt Damon. See what his bestie Affleck has to say about it.

Ben Affleck Speaks Candidly On Christopher Nolan’s Upcoming Project, ‘Odyssey’

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s career was blown out of the waters when they both starred in the 1997 movie, ‘Good Will Hunting,’ which won an Oscar by the way.

In the light of that initial fame surge, Affleck decided to lean into action blockbusters like ‘Armageddon,’ and even superhero movies like ‘Daredevil’ and ‘Batman’ and generally did big studio productions.

And while that worked for him, his dear friend Matt Damon wisely chose to pick his roles based on the director assigned to the project.

This has put him in with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Anthony Minghella, Robert Redford, and now the celebrated ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Inception’ director Christopher Nolan.

In a GQ interview, Affleck reflected on the differences he and Damon’s career paths have, saying, “I thought you were going to compare our acting careers, to which I would’ve said, well, Matt learned and knew earlier than I did to really key in on the director as the fundamental basis on which he’s going to make a decision whether to do a movie or not, which was a very wise choice.”

He continued: “And also he has certainly had opportunities to do movies that like — it’s not like I was saying, ‘No, Scorsese, no, Spielberg, I’m not going to be in your movie.’ We’re in situations of our opportunities, and we’re subject to that”

“I would’ve taken ‘Saving Private Ryan,’” Affleck shared later in the interview. “If Martin Scorsese called me and told me to play a waiter, I would take it. Steven Spielberg is one of the great filmmaking architects to ever live. I feel that way about Chris Nolan. I may go visit Matt on the set just to watch Nolan direct. I’m not even kidding at all.”

Ben Affleck Compares Matt Damon’s ‘Odyssey’ Stunts To His ‘Jason Bourne’ Filming Days

Elsewhere in the interview, Affleck recalled learning about Damon switching into action mode for ‘Odyssey.’ “I was talking to Matt about—he’s going off to do this Chris Nolan movie and doing a lot of stunt rehearsal, and it was kind of like, ‘Boy, it’s been a while, hasn’t it?’ You really have to go learn the fights. This is ‘Bourne Identity’ kind of territory.”

Damon himself is not averse to doing some action in his movies – hello ‘Accountant 2’ – but he would rather cool and trained professionals handle it than taking it upon himself to do so.

“I used to be very gung ho about like, ‘Oh, I’ll do the fights, I’ll do the stunts.’ And now I am very much, ‘At what point is the stunt performer going to come in and do this?’” he said. “Part of it’s because I know they’re just better at it than I am, and you want somebody who looks good doing it. From a totally selfish perspective, you just get banged up and tired.”

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