Matt Damon shared details about the Dunkin’ Donuts commercial with his best friend Ben Affleck on Tuesday during a visit on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
The 53-year-old actor told Stephen, 59, that the Super Bowl commercial with Ben, 51, was ‘clearly not my idea’.
Stephen said he liked how in the end when Matt said to Ben that ‘remember how I said I would do anything for you. This is ”anything.”
‘I actually said that to him when we were filming,’ Matt said laughing. ‘And he just left it in.’
The Oscar-winning actor said he had a lot of fun doing the commercial with longtime buddy Ben and football legend Tom Brady, 46.
Matt Damon shared details about the Dunkin’ Donuts commercial with his best friend Ben Affleck on Tuesday during a visit on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
‘Is Affleck your best friend?’ Stephen asked.
‘Yes,’ Matt said. ‘For many, many years.’
Matt said he started hanging out with Ben when he was eight years old and wasn’t famous then. Stephen asked him if he hangs out with famous people and if they were in his crew.
‘I have John Krasinski and Emily Blunt because we live in the same apartment building so I see them quite often,’ Matt said.
Matt said they were more like family at this point.
‘I see him in the gym every morning and I can’t get away from them,’ Matt joked.
Stephen mentioned that he touched Matt’s tricep and that it seemed rock hard and wanted to know if he was getting ready for a role.
‘No, I’m trying to keep up with John because John was getting in really good shape for this role that he’s gone off to do, this Guy Ritchie film,’ Matt said. ‘I just started training with him every morning. Just because I didn’t have anything else to do.’
The 53-year-old actor and Stephen, 59, later wore Dunkin’ Donuts jackets from the Super Bowl commercial
Stephen said he liked how in the end when Matt said to Ben that ‘remember how I said I would do anything for you. This is ”anything”
‘I actually said that to him when we were filming,’ Matt said laughing ‘And he just left it in’
Ben Affleck was featured in the ad along with his wife Jennifer Lopez, Tom Brady and Matt
Stephen said he was only ‘mildly famous’ and didn’t know if he hung out with enough famous people.
‘You’re on TV every night,’ Matt said. ‘I picture you kind of hanging out with Jon Stewart.’
‘That’s all we do,’ Stephen joked.
Stephen then asked him about the Oppenheimer movie and said he heard that he had agreed with his wife that he wouldn’t act for a while.
‘We had a very specific arrangement which I always, like most actors, keep an eye on someone like Chris Nolan,’ Matt said. ‘I had a feeling he might have a movie coming up and he’s really mercurial. No idea if there’s a part in it for me but I just left that one door open. I said but ‘if Chris Nolan were to call me.’
Stephen asked Matt to explain his new film Kiss The Future that he was producing. Matt said it was a documentary he made about Sarajevo and the siege that happened over 30 years ago. He said the people then used music as an act of resistance and defiance and somehow connected with the band U2. He said the movie was about the way normal people can use art to keep their communities together.
‘It’s a really beautiful movie,’ Matt said.
Stephen then played a clip from the movie which Matt said will be released in AMC theaters and later on Paramount+. Stephen showed a picture of Matt with Bono and asked how long he knew him. Matt said he had met him numerous times.
Stephen asked Matt to explain his new film Kiss The Future that he was producing and Matt said it was a documentary he made about Sarajevo and the siege that happened over 30 years ago
‘We were shooting the Last Duel in Ireland when the lockdown happened and I got locked down with my family a quarter mile from his house,’ Matt said. ‘Walking distance, staggering distance.’
Matt added ‘he’s a rock star. It’s tough to hang with those guys.’
‘It’s been reported that a new Jason Bourne film is in the works at Universal,’ Stephen said. ‘Somebodies prepping for something. No details have been given as to who is involved in this. I understand there is something you would like to tell everybody right now.’
‘No details have been given to me,’ Matt said. ‘There is a great director named Edward Berger, who directed All’s Quiet On The Western Front….and he said he had an idea.’
‘I would love to work with him,’ Matt said.
‘I’m as anxious as you are to see if this thing is, I hope it’s great and if we can do it,’ he added.
‘But you don’t think if you said ‘I’m doing it’ that it’s got to be Matt Damon,’ Stephen said.
Matt said that ‘at a certain point someone is going to have to take it over. I’m not getting any younger.’
‘You are fit as a fiddle,’ Stephen said. ‘You are rock hard.’
Matt also shared that he didn’t know that Dunkin’ was going to sell the tracksuits from the commercial.
Stephen then pulled two out and they both put them on.
Matt told Stephen that he was now ‘in the band.’
Matt told Stephen that he was now ‘in the band’ after the put on the jackets
Ben’s wife J-Lo also starred in the Dunkin’ Donuts aid that aired during the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl advert starring rapper Jack Harlow, Fat Joe, and Jennifer Lopez, sees the musicians horrified when ‘The DunKings’ begin to perform.
Entering the studio clad in a blinged-out jacket, Ben shouts: ‘What up, Bronx?’
He performs awkward choreography as his wife looks on, stunned. At the end, she whispers: ‘We talked about this,’ and Ben looks dismayed.
As he and Matt head out, Jennifer tells Tom – who’s manning the keyboard – that he can stay.
