Matt Damon expressed his sympathy for Ben Affleck, admitting he “can’t image” facing the same “scrutiny” his pal does amid his marital woes with Jennifer Lopez. The actor made a rare comment about his “Good Will Hunting” co-star while reflecting on how he’s managed to live a private life during a recent episode of the “Radio Times Podcast” with Ben’s brother, Casey Affleck. “I’ve been really lucky in that way .
.. especially when I look at Casey’s brother, Ben,” he said.
“I can’t imagine living under that kind of scrutiny.” “And it’s been like that for 25 years and we’ve had parallel careers in a lot of ways and so I’m fortunate to have been kind of excused from that part of [fame],” Damon, 53, explained. Despite the actors simultaneously rising to fame with their 1997 Oscar-winning film, Damon explained that details of Ben’s life were more often in the media because he was young and single.
“That magazine culture that was so huge ...
25 years ago [they] kind of ignored me,” the “Martian” star added. “Right, like a guy who’s married, it’s so boring,” he continued, referring to his marriage with his wife Luciana Barroso in 2005. “What would sell those things were scandal and sex and all that stuff that people would read .
.. and as long as you didn’t do any of that stuff it wasn’t really worth their time to wait to take your picture and so I ended up kind of getting left alone,” Damon said.
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