Matt Damon said it was a painful to be Ben Affleck’s friend when he dated Jennifer Lopez.
“There’s nobody who’s more misunderstood,” Damon said. “Ten years ago, the public image of him could not have been farther apart from who he actually is.”
“It was like he was being cast in a role, that he was a talentless kind of meathead, with his whole relationship with Jennifer Lopez.” (RELATED: Matt Damon May Have Finally Ruined His Career By Arguing With A Black Filmmaker)
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“He just got cast as this person that he wasn’t. It was just really painful. It was painful to be his friend, because it wasn’t fair, you know?” (RELATED: The Outfit Jennifer Lopez Wore On Her Birthday Was Practically A Birthday Suit)
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“To my mind, nobody really got him at all. And through his work, he climbed from the bottom of the mountain all the way back up to the top and past where either of us had ever been.” (RELATED: Jennifer Lopez On That Dress With The INSANE Cleavage: ‘I Like A Challenge’)
Affleck and Lopez began dating in 2002, ending their engagement in 2004. He married Jennifer Garner a year later. (RELATED: Ben Affleck’s Nanny Slips Into Daisy Dukes)