Affleck has often stated that Damon was the engine of the writing process. "Matt is disciplined; I'm chaotic," Affleck once said. "He would sit there for eight hours structuring the math problem scenes. I would write the dick jokes."
Yet, he has never fully escaped Will Hunting—and that’s a good thing. In films like The Martian , where he plays a stranded botanist using math to survive, critics immediately drew comparisons to the self-solving genius of Will. In Ford v Ferrari , his engineering obsession mirrors Hunting’s obsession with problems. Good Will Hunting Matt Damon