'We wouldn't have imagined getting another job,' said Ben, who added that the whole purpose of making the movie was really to have an acting reel to show to casting agents
'You wouldn't imagine that those two idiots would still be around,' Ben quipped. Jimmy, 47, noted that it had been nearly 25 years since they won Oscars for writing the screenplay the 1997 film Good Will Hunting.īen, 49, said he and Matt, 51, made Good Will Hunting so they would have an acting reel to show to casting agents.
'The hair was actually maroon, I looked like a rooster,' he quipped.īen Affleck and Matt Damon poked fun of themselves quite a bit while promoting their latest movie on The Tonight Show. Host Jimmy Fallon then shows the audience a black-and-white photo of Damon with his mohawk, which the actor asserts was 'even more ridiculous' in person. 'And that was the night that I FaceTimed him, and was like, "What are you doing?"' Damon hilariously recalled. He admitted that the same night he let the girls turn him into an art project, he and his wife Luciana 'had a few drinks' and he decided to FaceTime Bono. 'Then they decide that I needed a mohawk, so they mohawked me,' Matt continued. It was their art project basically, and it was clear that we weren't going back to work,' he told host Jimmy Fallon.īen Affleck added: 'There's nothing children like more than to humiliate their parents.' Since they weren't going to be working on the film anytime soon, the Oscar winner allowed his hair to be a canvas for his daughters Stella, 10, Gia, 12, and Isabella, 15 and Alexia, 22. Matt revealed that he was shooting The Last Duel in Ireland when the pandemic hit and production shut down. The 51-year-old shared the story of how he ended up looking 'like a rooster' when his girls dyed his hair maroon and cut it into a mohawk, while appearing on The Tonight Show with best friend Ben Affleck.ĭamon revealed that he was wearing the bold hairdo when he decided to drunkenly FaceTime rockstar Bono one night, as well as the mayor of Dalkey, Ireland.
Matt Damon is father of the year after letting his daughters use his hair as an art project while living in Ireland. Which he wore while on FaceTime with Bono after 'a few drinks' He's also starred in a few duds and was asked by Simmons which of his films he's most surprised wasn't a success.At least he didn't look like a faggot in a zoo! "We used to send him out before us because there would be 1000 people out the front of the hotel and we would say, 'Brad, just walk out to the left,' and they would go completely bananas and George and I would just walk out to the right and go to dinner."ĭamon went on to star in Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen as well as other huge films including The Bourne franchise, The Departed and The Martian. "I remember the first time we went to Europe on that movie to promote and George tells the story of people stepping over our faces in order to get to Brad. Brad said no and George looked at me and said, 'Well, look, you can't really blame the guy, I mean he's Brad Pitt and he's been Brad Pitt a lot longer than we've been us,'" Damon said. "There was something on Ocean's that George wanted us to do, I forget what it was, it was some appearance or something.