Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are no strangers to working together. From their 1997 Oscar-winning screenplay for Good Will Hunting to co-starring in Ridley Scott's 2021 historical drama The Last Duel, the pair are used to collaborating, but upcoming drama Air is the first time Affleck has been Damon's director.
"It was great," Damon, who plays Nike salesman Sonny Vaccaro, tells the Inside Total Film podcast. "It was a natural extension of writing scripts with somebody – you’re basically doing creative problem-solving all day long. So it wasn’t an unfamiliar position to be in with him. It just felt like a very natural progression of working together. He is a great director, for sure. He really gets the best out of everyone. He wisely believes that casting is really 95% of the job. And then once you do that, you’ve really got to put these people that you cast in a position to just be free and do their best work."
