Casey Affleck and Matt Damon tell Melissa Nathoo what it was like to work with Jack Harlow on The Instigators, and Matt reminisces about growing up with Ben Affleck and 'little brother' Casey. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Lads, it is good to see you both.
00:03I imagine it must be really nice when you get to make a film back home.
00:07But do you both really crank up the Boston
00:10when you're back on hometown?
00:11For sure, yeah.
00:13And this movie kind of called for that, too.
00:15It was a very Boston movie.
00:17And the dynamic between those guys
00:21and kind of the sensibility, the sense of humor,
00:24all of that stuff is kind of what we grew up with.
00:26Yeah, when I come back to Boston, even if we're not working,
00:29I can find myself putting it on a little bit.
00:32But now Boston's kind of changed.
00:33So not everyone has, you know, this big, heavy Boston accent.
00:37So sometimes you're walking around putting on your Boston
00:40and people are looking at you like,
00:42where's this guy from?
00:44I think you're pretending to be Boston.
00:46One thing I think when everyone watched the trailer,
00:49they were like, is that Jack Harlow?
00:52How did Jack Harlow end up in this movie, Casey?
00:55Well, actually, it's a funny story.
00:56I was just on a road trip, and I happened
00:59to be in San Francisco, and there was a music festival.
01:01And so I went to the music festival,
01:03just looking for something to do, and he was playing there.
01:05I met him, and he just really hit it off.
01:11He was great.
01:11He's a really, really super funny, nice, smart guy.
01:15And it was clear that he was, like,
01:17got a lot of different talents, and that he
01:19was interested in a lot of different things.
01:21And he had just finished working on White Men Can't Jump,
01:25a remake, and he was talking about that
01:28and how much he liked it.
01:29And so then, cut to a year later,
01:32and we were trying to figure out how to cast this movie.
01:36And I said, why don't we ask Doug if he
01:40wanted to meet Jack Harlow?
01:42And Doug is so open-minded about any suggestion
01:46from anyone all the time.
01:48He said, yeah, OK, sure.
01:49And he got on a Zoom with him, and he loved him right away.
01:53And boom, he's in the movie.
01:54He does an incredible job.
01:56Yeah, he's a really good actor, Jack.
01:57He was really, like, very, very present, very in the moment,
02:01like, just excellent.
02:03Really is.
02:04I'm hoping that I now see both of you in one of his music
02:07videos going forward.
02:08He hasn't asked us yet.
02:11Damn it.
02:11We're going to get it out.
02:12I'm going to make it happen.
02:13I wouldn't say that either of you
02:16are particularly helpful in this heist that goes wrong.
02:21But you as Casey and Matt, have you
02:24got any quality that would make you helpful in a heist?
02:28I don't think I would.
02:29I mean, unless you want someone to perform monologues for you
02:32during the heist, that's basically all I can do.
02:35Yeah, probably not, no.
02:38I can't even run that fast anymore, you know?
02:40Obviously, you are one of the co-writers in it, Casey.
02:43What was it about Matt that you just knew that you
02:45wanted him for that part?
02:47He didn't write the part for me.
02:49Matt's one of the best actors alive.
02:52It's kind of a no-brainer, no matter what the part,
02:55the way the part's written.
02:57And he also likes to come in and sort of,
03:00he doesn't just show up and say the lines.
03:03He comes in early on and works on the script
03:07and makes things better.
03:08So he was an obvious first ask and just happened to land him.
03:16You guys back together, along with Doug as well,
03:19it's such a great team up.
03:20It really does work very well.
03:23The relationship between the two of you,
03:25is it in any way similar to Rory and Colby?
03:29I mean, maybe in the moments when we just
03:31start riffing with each other.
03:33We've known each other for 40-something years.
03:35And I'm a little older than Casey,
03:37so he's been like a little brother to me my whole life.
03:40But we've gone through all these phases.
03:42When he graduated high school and moved out
03:44with me and Ben in LA, and we were all
03:46struggling actors together.
03:47And Ben and I were working on the screenplay.
03:49And so we've kind of lived with each other
03:52through all these various stages,
03:53eventually marriage and fatherhood and all this stuff.
03:56So it's just a massive amount of kind of common experience
04:00and memories from kind of a life living
04:04kind of alongside each other.
04:06So I think that stuff hopefully comes out
04:09in the little interactions in the movie and makes it fun.
04:12The goal of this movie was just to be
04:13really entertaining and fun.
04:15We wanted it to be a joyful experience for the audience.
04:20And hopefully we got that.
04:22Oh, you did.
04:22You guys together, like I said, it's great.
04:24It's great on screen.
04:26So I hope you do more projects together.
04:27I really do.
04:29Thank you so much, guys.
04:30Lovely chat to you.
04:32Cheers.