Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Spent Their “Good Will Looking” Earnings on a Occasion Home

In line with Ben Affleck, he and Matt Damon spent all of the $600,000 (£480,000) they produced from their Oscar-winning movie Good Will Looking in simply six months. Affleck revealed that the pair, who wrote the screenplay whereas nonetheless struggling actors, shared a checking account and managed to spend their whole financial savings on a celebration home. That they had every purchased $55,000 (£44,000) Jeep Cherokees, leaving them with $55,000 to hire a $5,000-a-month (£4000) occasion home on Glencoe Method by the Hollywood Bowl.

Affleck shared throughout an look on The Drew Barrymore Present that he had at all times thought it was completely regular to share an account together with his finest buddy. The actors had lived collectively in a small residence in Los Angeles earlier than writing and starring in Good Will Looking, which finally received an Oscar for Finest Screenplay and Finest Actor for Robin Williams. Affleck added that they might sometimes do additional work or a line right here and there and put the cash within the shared account.

The pair are presently co-starring in Air, a movie written and directed by Affleck that tells the story of how Nike created the Air Jordan sneaker with Michael Jordan. Additionally they co-starred and wrote Ridley Scott’s medieval epic The Final Duel, which they declared to be a feminist movie.