Did you know? After the death of Robin Williams in 2014, the Boston Public Garden park bench where he and Matt Damon had their conversation scene became an impromptu memorial site for the actor; people left flowers, quotes and various items at the bench. A petition has been passed around to erect a statue in Williams' memory near the bench. Read More
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck came up with a a clever way to choose the right studio for their script: the story goes that on page sixty of the script, they wrote a completely out-of-nowhere sex scene between Will and Chuckie. They took it to every major studio, and nobody even mentioned the scene. When they met with Harvey Weinstein at Miramax, he said "I only have one really big note on the script. About page sixty, the two leads, both straight men, have a sex scene. What the hell is that?" Damon and Affleck explained that they put that scene specifically in there to show them who actually read the script and who didn't. As Weinstein was the only person who brought it up, Miramax was the studio chosen to produce the film.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck started crying out of happiness on the very first day of the shooting, because it was a scene between Robin Williams and Stellan Skarsgård, accomplished actors, doing Damon's and Affleck's scene verbatim, and they had waited so long (five years) for this to happen.
After the death of Robin Williams in 2014, the Boston Public Garden park bench where he and Matt Damon had their conversation scene became an impromptu memorial site for the actor; people left flowers, quotes and various items at the bench. A petition has been passed around to erect a statue in Williams' memory near the bench.
Good Will Hunting 1998
09 Jan 1998 ● English ● 2 hrs 6 mins
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