After serving as Joaquin Phoenix’s sidekick in Gus Van Sant’s black comedy To Die For , Casey Affleck got in the car alongside brother Ben, Matt Damon and Yellowstone ‘s Cole Hauser in Good Will Hunting . After getting Damon & Affleck’s script to Van Sant and essentially enabled the film to happen, Casey Affleck discovered that he would have to audition for a role he tells Fuse he didn’t even particularly want. Damon and Affleck won the Screenplay Oscar and soared to instant stardom while Casey Affleck took his time, plunging into complex and often dark characters.
He won the Best Actor Oscar with a stunning performance in Manchester By The Sea , and his recent work includes the recent Best Picture winner Oppenheimer, Dreamin’ Wild, Interstellar, Gone Baby Gone, Out of the Furnace, The Assassination Of Jessie James By The Coward Robert Ford , and the Ocean’s Eleven franchise. With Chuck MacLean, Affleck co-wrote The Instigators , re-teaming with Damon in a Doug Liman-directed heist comedy with crackling dialogue and quirky characters that opens theatrically August 2 before it launches on Apple TV+ August 9. In an exceptionally introspective Fuse, Affleck takes us beyond the formative influences that inspired him, and divulges the personal pain and adversity that grounded and informed some of dark and indelible character turns.
He also shares the ambition that each of the four stars of Good Will Hunting exhibited before all of them hit the big time. And he tries .
