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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote a gay sex scene for “Good Will Hunting” – find out why
We all know that superstars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won a screenwriting Oscar back in 1998 for Good Will Hunting – a movie that, unfortunately, did not contain a gay sex scene.
But the original script they sent to prospective film studios did include such a scene.
Harvey Weinstein, head of Miramax at that time, beat out the competition for the highly-coveted script because he took exception to it with the young writers.
‘In the meeting with them I said, “I only have one really big note on the script. About page 60 the two leads, both straight men, have a sex scene. What the hell is that? I don’t get it,”‘ Weinstein said recently on the Graham Norton Show.
‘And they go, “That’s the scene we wrote to see if guys like you read the script because every studio executive we went to hadn’t read it. You’re the only guy who brought it up so you get the movie.”‘
It’s a good thing Weinstein noticed!
Comments
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Joe says:
Matt and Ben are so adorable. I love them individually and together. I so hope they make more movies together.
ROBERT says:
WHAT A SCENE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETWEEN THESE 2 HANDSOME MEN…MAYBE THEY CAN PUT IT IN THEIR NEXT FILM TOGETHER…LET’S ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO IT…FOR ALL THEIR GAY FANS!!
DP says:
Oh, I wish this were available for public consumption, even as a paperback release!