He doesnt miss a beat: I guess Ill be throwing at your head, Mike.
And then taking to the booth to join the Bosox TV broadcasters for an inning.
The Giants won both, and the first ended the Tom Brady-led Pats quest for an undefeated season.
From left: Casey Affleck, ‘The Infiltrators’ producer Kevin Walsh and his son Henry, and Matt DamonMike Fleming Jr./Deadline
Damon launched into an expletive-filled diatribe about the two luckiest throws in NFL history, and we parted laughing.
It was released online and blew up virally.
That includes Liman, who declined a chance to take part in a sequel toRoad House.
But Liman knew that when he signed on.
There, it might eclipseThe Instigatorsviewing numbers because of Pitt and Clooney.
But those stars wont do much to promote it beyond the long-planned Venice premiere last weekend.
Clooney in Venice disputed the heavenly salaries reportedly paid them in a New York Times thumping of Apple.
The idea is to make them more valuable when they launch on the Apple TV+ streaming service.
Its failure left Apple brass shy about going right back to the well onWolfs.
The media treats every streamer misstep as a pinata to swing at, except for Netflix.
Netflix has another opportunity to pivot next year with the thirdKnives OutinstallmentWake Up Dead Man.
Dont dress for it.
Imagine where the moviemaking ecosystem would be if these streamers stopped swinging for the fences?
All those stories do is foment fear and encourage these people to play it safe.
That would be incredible if it happened, Damon said.
Look, it was the greatest most fun group of people.
He had just received a missive from Apple, which doesnt divulge its audience numbers publicly.
They said that it was number one on all of the streaming, including the TV shows.
So thats wonderful; it just means that people are liking it as much as we liked making it.
So yeah, that would be wonderful if that came to pass.
It matches the sensibilities at Apple that allowedThe Instigatorsto happen.
Damon hopes it will mean these parties do more together.
And so its about finding creative ways to do it.
Its weird, Mike.
Each one is different.
Each one of the legacy studios has different strategies.
And then marrying those things up.
It doesnt work unless the partners that were working with are really happy.
Were not here to rob the bank.
If we do this right, everybody wins.
And so thats really what were trying to do, he said.
And in this case it was quite the opposite, and so I feel good.
But my career, man.
I want to play that character again.
The scalpers outside would always tell you they had better seats than they actually did.
I was like, Pop, Im sleeping outside.
Im getting us two standing room tickets.
And we went to that first game.
We lost, but my dad and I were standing together.
I watched those games on a computer, on a laptop in the middle of the night.
Thats how I watched all the games, and that comeback.
Then I had to go right to work.
Where I grew up was just across the river and it was walking distance, Affleck told me.
One of my first jobs was at Fenway Park, working just outside left field at a sausage stand.
I worked every home game for almost for three years.
This was way, way before I was old enough to really be working.
And I loved it.
I would go inside and watch the games.
And then come back out before the rush of people leaving.
I started working in eighth grade and I looked like I was nine.
Looking back, Im like, who let that happen?
Nobody seemed to care.
Those are great memories.
At the end of the night, theyd break us off a piece depending on how much was made.
I did pretty good for an eighth grader.
Its 43 years of dysfunction, Damon joked about their chemistry.
I love him so much.
He drives me up the wall.
Hes been like a little brother to me my whole life, and Im so proud of him.
That was one of the big reasons I wanted to do the movie.
Most actors might lament stepping out of a part that becomes a career role for someone else.
Casey and I had done Kenny Lonergans play together in London in 2002, Damon said.
I knew exactly what he would do with it, how great an actor he is.
But he was always just a different group than I was.
He was sitting in the back of the bus.
In his mind, Damon was no match when mighty Casey came to bat.
It depends on how much fact checking youre going to do on me, Mike, he said.
I think I got a hold of a couple and put em close to the warning track.
Definitely some doubles in there.
Definitely Matt didnt, although he surprised me.
He looked pretty good, old as he is.
He had a good stance, a good swing.
I was kind of impressed.
I hadnt taken batting practice there in 20 years.
Last time, I was hitting them off the wall.
But I couldnt even see the ball.
So I was lucky I was even making contact.
I hit a couple good line drives, but nothing to write home about.
I had to be up there.
I was holding back a little bit, but I wasnt too worried about getting across the plate.
Damon felt the pressure more, even though hed done this before.
When I threw from that mound 20 years ago, I didnt even think about it, Damon said.
I didnt warm up.
I just went out there and did it.
I was actually thinking about throwing while I was throwing, which Ive never done before.
The only way I could have messed it up is actually thinking about throwing mechanics.
So I feel good about that.
As it turned out, Damon wasnt distracted by any loud invocation of Bucky Fucking Dent.
I kept my mouth shut.
Maybe the prospect of throwing around Luca to hit me would have given them pause.
And they seem like swell guys.
