Their very first film together, 1992’s School Ties, included Damon’s breakout efficiency as a atrocious 1950 s-era preparation school snob, after which his turn as a soldier in the experience legendary Geronimo paid their lease for some time. (Their very first film with speaking parts, that is–Damon and Affleck were both uncredited bonus in the 1989 timeless Field of Dreams)
Affleck began paddling his method to popularity playing bully O’Bannion in the teen classic Dazed and Confused And while handling auditions and gigs, they leaned into their Cambridge background and cranked out Good Will Hunting, which Damon had actually begun dealing with at Harvard while taking playwriting and theater instructions classes.
After Damon had actually remained in L.A. for about a year, he informed Interview, “Ben and I started talking one night, and the script began flowing right out. Then we wrote it very fast,” often together and often individually, faxing each other brand-new pages when they were apart. They offered it to Castle Rock in 1994.
“And actually, it was a source of embarrassment for us when we sold the script,” Damon continued, “because a lot of our friends really are writers and can write a lot better than we can, except maybe dialogue. Writing a script is different, though, because to me it’s not really writing. It’s acting, is what it is. We still don’t call ourselves writers. We just kind of go, ‘Well, I guess that worked.'”
