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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Matt Damon Losing Out on a Big Role Was the Most Important Moment of His Entire Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: There are times when a major life moment, not breaking
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  Speaker 2: how you want it, can be literally one of the
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  Speaker 2: best things that's ever happened to you. Matt Damon's story
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  Speaker 2: certainly embodies that.
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  Speaker 3: One missed opportunity paved the way to an Oscar for him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Matt told Complex's Goat Talk series, the no that changed
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  Speaker 3: his life was not landing the role in the 1996
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  Speaker 3: movie Primal Fear. and ended up going on to Edward Norton.
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  Speaker 4: So both Matt, Ed, and Ben Affleck were pretty much
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  Speaker 4: unknown actors at this point, and they all got the
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  Speaker 4: chance to audition, only because producers couldn't find established actors
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  Speaker 4: who were right for the role, so they essentially held
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  Speaker 4: open auditions.
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  Speaker 2: Which is rare, and when Matt and Ben read the script,
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  Speaker 2: they were like, wow, this is a great role. And
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  Speaker 2: when it went to Ed Norton, they looked at each
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  Speaker 2: other and concluded there's never going to be another role
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  Speaker 2: that good for an unknown actor.
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  Speaker 1: Unless they make it.
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  Speaker 3: So Matt and Ben buckled down and wrote Good Will Hunting.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, which won them an Oscar for the screenplay
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  Speaker 2: and transformed both of them into household names.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.