Matt Damon Shares Ben Affleck’s Reaction To The Odyssey

Matt Damon has claimed that Ben Affleck’s reaction to his performance in The Odyssey came in the form of a phone call he’d been waiting decades for.

The two actors are close friends as well as frequent collaborators, having co-written the Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, as well as sharing the screen in the likes of Dogma, Air and The Rip.

During a new interview with MTV UK to promote The Odyssey, Matt opened up about his friendship with Ben, recalling how they’d been through “a whole hell of a lot together”.

“He’s one of the great loves of my life, I will say about Ben,” he enthused.

Matt then shared that after Ben watched The Odyssey for the first time, he “got a phone call from him that I think I’ve been waiting 45 years to get”.

“He didn’t stop talking for an hour,” the Bourne Identity star said. “It was like he’d seen the movie 20 times. He got absolutely everything, every detail, he somehow soaked it all in in one viewing.”

But Ben isn’t the only tough critic in Matt’s life who was won over by The Odyssey.

Matt revealed how his 20-year-old daughter Isabella (who refers to his film The Great Wall as just The Wall, claiming there’s “nothing great about that movie”) had called him after watching the Christopher Nolan epic just to tell him how “proud” she was of her dad.

Watch the full interview below:

He has also spoken candidly about the gruelling shoot, which took the cast and crew to a series of locations around the globe over a three-month period of filming.

“The joke on the crew was we didn’t have a single easy location,” Matt recalled to GQ earlier this year.

“Every time we’d go somewhere, we’d be like, ‘Well, Iceland will be easier’. And then it’s raining sideways and it’s fucking freezing. Iceland was like, ‘Yeah, easy? Hey, hold my beer.’ ”

The Odyssey is in cinemas now.