Ben Affleck and Matt Damon currently find themselves embroiled in a legal situation linked to one of their more recent films, The Rip. As part of a defamation lawsuit filed by two police officers, Damon and Affleck’s production company, Artists Equity, is being sued for its portrayal of law enforcement officials. Neither the actors nor their company have formally addressed the suit, as of this writing. All the while, though, resurfaced comments that Affleck made about working with cops ahead of the film’s release have resurfaced.
The two officers at the center of this case – Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana – are members of the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Department, and Affleck apparently shadowed cops with the organization while prepping for the film. In the aftermath of the lawsuit, Entertainment Weekly shared quotes from an interview it did with Affleck that was shared earlier this year. Based on the comments the Oscar winner shared with EW at the time, he was ecstatic to be collaborating with the cops and to have some appear in the film:
