Matt Damon Calls Jimmy Kimmel a 'Terrible Human Being' Amid Years-Long Feud (Exclusive)

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are promoting their new film “Air,” telling the story of Nike’s Air Jordans. The film follows a Nike executive that lands a Michael Jordan endorsement, boosting the young athlete’s career and creating a product that revolutionized the sports market. In an interview, Affleck and Damon discussed the first time they met Jordan, with Jordan and Affleck entering a challenge of who was tallest.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are longtime best friends, but they weren’t the best roommates.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reflected on the first big purchase they made after some success in the industry.

People Wednesday that Affleck kept him grounded as fame started to “mess” with his head in the early days of his career.“It’s been really helpful to check in with Ben throughout this whole surreal process over the last 25 years,” Damon said. “I think the shock of becoming famous is so … I mean, that messed me up for a couple years,” he added. Affleck, 50, and Damon met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when they were young kids and bonded over a love of baseball and film.

From New England to Hollywood. Matt Damon’s work as an actor, writer and producer has cemented him as one of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars.

While Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were writing “The Last Duel,” their first screenplay together since their 1997 breakthrough, “Good Will Hunting,” they noticed that something in their winding and usually separate careers had been missing.

Ben Affleck‘s brand new Dunkin’ ad is out!

Following up on his Dunkin’ Super Bowl ad with wife Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck is hitting the donut shop again, this time accompanied by – in spirit anyway – longtime pal and Air co-star Matt Damon.

 premiered Ben Affleck's latest commercial for the fast food chain. The spot comes two months after the Oscar winner -- who has been vocal about his love for the chain — appeared in his first Dunkin' ad. In the new spot, Affleck approaches the camera to pitch himself as the leading man to two Dunkin' employees. «I'm here for the Dunkin' run campaign commercial,» Affleck says to the employees as he shares the idea he has for the ad.In a bid to sell himself for the gig, Affleck pulls the Hollywood card.«I don't do commercials, I'm a serious actor,» he says.

Still running on Dunkin’! Ben Affleck proved his lasting love for the coffee chain in a new commercial — despite being mistaken for BFF Matt Damon.

Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel’s ongoing “feud” continues.

Ben Affleck's best efforts, it doesn't seem like the longstanding feud between Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon will be ending any time soon.Affleck sat down on Tuesday's, while promoting his new film, which stars himself and Damon.«You have so many great performances in this, so many, I can't even pick who I liked the best,» Kimmel gushed during the chat. «You were great in it, Chris Messina, Chris Tucker… Viola Davis, Julius [Tennon], her husband... We had all the great people from the cast on the show.»«Well, you're leaving someone out,» Affleck said, delicately. «I mean, Matt Damon's the lead.»No, well, I said all the people from the film," Kimmel replied.«I understand you have your feuds and everything, but Matt is a friend of mine,» Affleck implored. «Honest to God, it would mean a lot to me if you just asked him one question about the movie.

The heated “feud” between Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel rages on. Even on a red carpet, it’s hard for the pair to keep things civil.

Yes, we are making a meal out of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s recent appearance on Bill Simmons’s The Ringer podcast recently to promote Affleck’s new directorial effort “Air” which co-stars Damon (read our review), about Nike and its relationship with Michael Jordan and we fully admit it. Look, it’s just chalked full of good stories, and look; sometimes this is (infinitely) more interesting than the regular news grist mill.

Air, alongside , whose little black dress was the perfect complement to his own all-black ensemble. Barroso, 46, has attended countless events with her husband, and her style never misses.

Girl dad! Matt Damon stepped out with his wife, Luciana Barroso, and three of their four daughters for the premiere of his new film, Air.

Jimmy Kimmel is keeping his «feud» with Matt Damon alive! The 55-year-old late night host attended Monday night's premiere of Damon's new movie in Los Angeles where he and Damon took aim at one another.«I don't know who that is, but yeah I heard him. He was loud.

Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana Barroso, looked great on Monday at the premiere of his film,  at Regency Village Theatre in West Hollywood — but it was their daughters who stole the show.The 52-year-old actor and his wife of 17 years were joined by their three daughters, Isabella, 16, Gia, 14, and Stella, 12, who posed next to their parents on the red carpet. Damon recently co-founded a production company called Artists Equity with Ben Affleck, who also attended the premiere with his wife, Jennifer Lopez.Air, directed by Affleck, tells the story of the sneaker brand, Nike, and Air Jordan's rise to fame.The new film features an all-star cast, including Chris Tucker, Jason Bateman, and EGOT winner Viola Davis.Also at the premiere, Damon, Affleck, and Davis, all Oscar winners, posed together.The shoes — produced by American corporation Nike, Inc — were created for Hall of Fame former basketball player Michael Jordan during his time with the Chicago Bulls in 1984 and were released on April 1,1985.Although not directly involved with the film, Jordan met with Affleck prior to the start of production and gave the project his blessing. The casting of Davis was his idea.Damon plays sports executive Sonny Vaccaro, who is in charge of improving Nike's sales in their basketball division and works to sign rookie Jordan to a deal to wear their shoes.During the premiere, Damon jokingly spoke with ET's Kevin Frazier about his longstanding bitter rivalry with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who was also at the event.

Matt Damon told Variety‘s Marc Malkin Monday night that Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” runs a hefty three hours long. On the red carpet for “Air,” in which he co-stars, Damon also talked about Nolan’s upcoming historic drama in which he appears alongside Cillian Murphy. “It’s three hours. It’s fantastic,” Damon said, revealing that he’s seen “Oppenheimer.” “Cillian is phenomenal. He’s everything you would want him to be,” Damon told Malkin. “I think it’s almost three hours. It goes so fast, it’s great.” Directed by Ben Affleck, “Air” stars Damon as Sonny Velasco, who led Nike to pursue the endorsement of Michael Jordan and the creation of the Air Jordan basketball sneakers. “Air” opens April 5 and co-stars Affleck, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman and Chris Messina.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon used to share a bank account in order to fund acting auditions.The Oscar-winning duo have famously been friends for the entirety of their careers and beyond, and that friendship even extended beyond the usual boundaries. Appearing on a recent episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast (as per Variety), the two actors revealed they had one bank account between them starting in the late 1980s.The pair set up the bank account to help make their dreams of making it in Hollywood a reality. “It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions,” Damon said, before adding the arrangement was “a weird thing in retrospect.”Weighing in, Affleck said: “We were going to help each other and be there for each other.