Ben Affleck Is Reportedly in Awe of Matt Damon’s Married Life
Ben Affleck and his longtime friend Matt Damon have vastly different lives when it comes to marriage. Damon’s marriage has been completely free of celebrity scandal, so it’s easy to see why Affleck feels a certain way about it.
How Ben Affleck admires Matt Damon’s marriage
Damon always considered himself very fortunate that he and Luciana Barroso didn’t have to endure the same kind of attention that Affleck and his girlfriends did. Damon famously met his wife Lucy while filming the comedy Stuck On You. But his meeting with Barroso, who was a bartender at the time, was the stuff of a romantic comedy all on its own.
Damon was at Barroso’s bar when people started to notice him. The actor wanted a place to hide for a bit, so Barroso offered him some refuge from all the attention.
“But he had started getting recognized and asked for pictures and autographs, and then it got kind of aggressive because people are drinking and stuff, and so he came and hid behind my bar … [wanting to] just hang out back there and have a drink. He says, ‘Oh, I saw you, and I really wanted to talk to you,’” Barrasso remembered in an interview with Vogue. “So I put him to work with me! I said: ‘you know, if you’re going to be back here, you can’t just be standing there!’’
The two have described their connection that day as immediate. Two years after dating, they’d both exchange their wedding vows on December, 2005, and have been together ever since.
Perhaps one of the things Damon enjoys most about his relationship is the lack of attention it gets. He’s seen what the other side of celebrity marriage looks like personally, and wants no part of it.
“That magazine culture that was so huge … 25 years ago [they] kind of ignored me,” Damon told Hello! not too long ago. “Right, like a guy who’s married, it’s so boring.”
On the other side, Damon’s marriage is something that Affleck has allegedly greatly admired for a long time.
“Matt has had a successful marriage for years, and Ben has always been in awe of this,” Daily Mail once claimed the source said.
Matt Damon is reportedly trying to smooth things out between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
Affleck’s marriage with Lopez didn’t last nearly as long as Damon’s with Barrosso. The Gigli co-stars seem to have ended things for good after their shocking reunion. Afterward, reports floated around that Damon was acting as a sort of mediator between the two. Although Affleck is Damon’s best friend, he couldn’t help but to feel some sympathy toward the Hustlers actor, too.
“Matt feels pretty bad for J. Lo. He’s been liaising with her on the roll out of the movie so he’s on calls with her all the time and she has opened up to him about how much she’s hurting,” the source told In Touch. “He’s been trying to reason with Ben to be a little bit more compassionate to the fact that she’s humiliated right now.”
The report suggested that Affleck wasn’t too receptive to the idea of Damon helping or comforting Lopez.
“He can’t help but feel a lot of sympathy for J. Lo,” the source said. “He’s trying to play Switzerland and smooth things over on both sides, but Ben is not taking it well at all. To even suggest that he was somehow at fault really rubs him the wrong way. He says if Matt, or anyone, were in his shoes they would have run from that marriage ten times faster.”
