Real-life pals and would-be kissing buddies Matt Damon and Ben Affleck broke out as not just actors but also writers thanks to 19997’s “Good Will Hunting,” a drama that landed the pair Oscars for their original script.
It also snagged an Academy Award for Robin Williams’ performance as Sean Maguire, the haunted therapist who connects with the equally tormented academic prodigy Will Hunting (Damon) and gets him to open himself emotionally over the course of the film.A year later, Affleck was saving the world from a killer asteroid in “Armageddon” and being the bomb in “Phantoms” while Damon was playing a young man with…The post How Robin Williams Got Matt Damon His Saving Private Ryan Role appeared first on /Film.
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