Matt Damon typically has inventive variations with Casey, Ben Affleck

By now, Matt Damon and longtime collaborators Ben Affleck and youthful brother Casey Affleck simply get one another.

“They’re persistently nice,” Damon informed PEOPLE of the pair at Wednesday’s New York premiere of The Instigators, his newest film with Casey. “They’re persistently unbelievable companions to work with. And no, there aren’t actually, often, any surprises.”

Damon acknowledged the lads do “get in inventive arguments.” However, he stated, “These are wholesome, and we all know one another effectively sufficient that our emotions do not actually become involved and our egos do not become involved.” General, he stated, “It is a fairly wholesome working relationship with each of them.”

He additionally appreciates having his spouse, Luciana Barroso, as a trusted companion. She’s a producer on the movie.

“So once they say one thing, once they dig their heels in on one thing — any of them do — I concentrate, Damon informed the journal. “All of us have blind spots creatively or in any other case. And, after I see any person that I agree with a lot feeling strongly about one thing, I look actually rigorously at it.”

Damon and Ben Affleck each famously gained Oscars for cowriting the 1997 drama Good Will Searching, and so they’ve reteamed for motion pictures resembling final yr’s Air. As for Casey Affleck, Damon has costarred with him in motion pictures such because the Ocean’s 11 saga and 2023 blockbuster Oppenheimer.

Ben Affleck and Damon famously met as youngsters whereas rising up of their beloved hometown of Boston, and so they even lived collectively whereas they had been arising in Hollywood.

In July 2023, Affleck informed Vainness Honest that he and Damon had someway started pondering that they could not work collectively, as a result of they’d all the time be related to each other.

However that they had provided that up, as Damon stated.

“We will now take a look at the final 20 years and go like, ‘Nicely, the advantage of hindsight, what would we have now completed in a different way?'” Damon requested. “And I feel we each got here to the conclusion that we’d’ve labored collectively much more.”

EW confirmed this month that Damon and Ben Affleck will star in and produce RIP, an upcoming crime thriller for Netflix.

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