Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are longtime best friends, but they weren’t the best roommates.
28.03.2023 - 20:17 / variety.com
Diane Garrett With Women’s History Month well underway, Variety asked female leaders in Hollywood a simple question: Are we better off today than we were five years ago? More pointedly, how many gains have there really been in the battle for gender equality since the industry’s great #MeToo reckoning – and what is the outlook for further change? Lately, there have been mixed signals: Time’s Up faded away in January after a series of missteps, and high-profile female Oscar contenders ended up empty handed once again in traditionally male-dominated categories earlier this month. Harvey Weinstein is in jail but new reports of sexual misconduct by other men in positions of authority continue to pop up with unsettling frequency. Recent academic studies have not given those fighting for gender equality much to cheer about either.
Women’s advocates surveyed by Variety concede that progress appears to have slowed recently but insist there is no need to despair. Their collective wisdom: Change can come in fits and starts. “Yes, it’s improving. And yes, it’s really slow,” says Stephanie Allain, president of the Producers Guild, who helped birth “Boyz N the Hood” as a studio exec and has credits including “Dear White People” and the upcoming “Exorcist” sequel. From her vantage, progress for women has stalled recently, but, as someone who has worked to increase diversity in Hollywood for decades, she takes that in stride. “We’ve kind of flatlined over the last year or two, but that’s what happens: you make a little progress, you are kind of stagnant, and then you make some more progress,” says Allain, who pushed to disclose diversity breakdowns during her stint as a director of the L.A. Film Festival and has long worked with
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are longtime best friends, but they weren’t the best roommates.
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"AIR," the new movie starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and directed by Affleck, reunites old friends, with a stamp of approval by Michael Jordan. It is no secret that Affleck and Damon have been friends for decades, first meeting when Damon was 10 and Affleck was 8. In previous interviews, both actors have expressed they each had a love for acting at an early age, which drew them to one another.
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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.
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