Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have been buddies for over 4 many years; nevertheless, they’ve skilled their fair proportion of disagreements.

The actors, well-known for his or her Hollywood bromance, not too long ago mirrored on their years-long friendship and their “largest battle” that landed Damon within the hospital.

Surprisingly, Ben Affleck’s main concern on the time wasn’t his finest pal’s well-being. The “Batman” star and Matt Damon have been buddies since their childhood, bonding over their shared love for performing.

Damon and Affleck recounted the story of youth on a current episode of “The Tonight Present.” A snippet of their look, shared on YouTube, captured the second host Jimmy Fallon requested Damon concerning the time he received injured within the eye.

“It was our largest battle,” Affleck chimed in, to which Damon agreed. The latter recalled that the incident occurred about 35 years in the past whereas they had been capturing scenes for the prep-school drama “Faculty Ties,” with fellow actors Brendan Fraser, Cole Hauser, and Chris O’Donnell.

Damon famous that the group was bored between takes and located acorns whereas taking a stroll across the college they used for the drama. They thought it will be enjoyable to throw them at one another, however catastrophe struck whereas they had been enjoying.

Damon recalled that Affleck had aimed an acorn at Hauser, who dodged on the final minute. “It actually hit me within the eye. It is the one time in my life I did not have time to blink. I needed to go to the hospital,” Damon stated. “They gave me a watch patch that I needed to put on for a number of days.”

Following the unlucky incident, Affleck confessed that the primary thought that raced by his head wasn’t Damon’s well-being however his personal. “Thoughts you, I had like three strains within the film. And whereas I cared about Matt having imaginative and prescient, my first thought was, ‘I gotta be fired for this,'” Affleck shared.

Happily for him, he wasn’t fired from the film, and Damon received to spend time with late filmmaker Newt Arnold, who additionally had an eyepatch. Their interplay generated optimistic responses for YouTube customers, with many dubbing them the perfect Hollywood duo.

“Every time Ben and Matt are on collectively, the entire power of the interview simply adjustments. They genuinely crack one another up,” somebody famous. One other agreed, writing, “When these two collaborate, they at all times knock it out of the park, among the finest dynamic duos in Hollywood.”

Damon and Affleck’s interview marked one among their many stops whereas selling their new film, “The Rip,” out on Netflix by January 16. The Blast reported that they appeared on Sirius XM’s “The Howard Stern Present” to speak concerning the movie and their decades-long friendship.

Damon mirrored on their bond, believing they had been the luckiest duo to have one another by the nice and the unhealthy days. “We hit the lottery. We hit it collectively,” he declared. The “Bourne” franchise star echoed comparable sentiments when host Howard Stern queried him about his assist for Affleck.

Damon boldly declared that he had been by Affleck’s facet all through his controversial moments, together with his divorces and alcohol points. He additionally shared the key to their enduring friendship, saying, “Our relationship is not affected by what persons are saying.”

Throughout their look on Stern’s present, Damon revealed that his spouse, Luciana Barroso, as soon as had a crush on Affleck. He famous that when she watched their breakout film, “Good Will Looking,” she thought Affleck was the lovable one.

Damon joked that he had instructed his spouse she received the flawed one; nevertheless, Barroso’s instincts had been spot on. Whereas chatting with Leisure Tonight on the New York Metropolis premiere for his or her new film, Damon revealed Affleck did not stay as much as Barroso’s expectations.

Based on Damon, Barroso’s curiosity in Affleck dwindled after assembly him in individual. He famous that her previous crush on his finest pal was a longtime joke of their household, with Affleck slicing in that it was a supply of pleasure for him till he did not meet Barroso’s expectations.