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Matt Damon Reveals the One Part of His Fame He’s Glad He Doesn’t Share with Ben Affleck · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Childhood friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have forever been
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  Speaker 2: linked in the public eye, ever since the young stars
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  Speaker 2: won Academy Awards together for Best Original Screenplay thanks to
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  Speaker 2: their breakout film Goodwill Hunting in nineteen ninety seven. Something
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  Speaker 2: they haven't shared in common is the intense spotlight on
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  Speaker 2: Ben Affleck's personal life thanks to several high profile romances
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  Speaker 2: over the years, and Matt Damon just opened up on
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  Speaker 2: the Radio Times podcast how grateful he is to have
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  Speaker 2: not endured it. He says, I've been really lucky in
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  Speaker 2: that way, especially when I look at Ben. I can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine living under that kind of scrutiny. It's been like
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  Speaker 2: that for twenty five years. We've had parallel careers, and
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  Speaker 2: so I'm fortunate to have been excused from that part
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  Speaker 2: of it. I'm just a guy who's married. It's so boring.
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  Speaker 2: So I ended up getting left alone. I just wanted
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  Speaker 2: to work, and so I hid for a few years
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  Speaker 2: while I got my bearings. Luckily, I fell in love
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  Speaker 2: with someone who was not in the business, but who
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  Speaker 2: tolerates that side of it. He and Ben are reunited
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  Speaker 2: with their Goodwill Hunting director Gus van sand The trio
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  Speaker 2: developing a movie based on Hulk Hogan's legal battle with
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  Speaker 2: Galker
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.