Matt Damon Speaks Out on Ben Affleck's Back Tattoo
We are taught all of our lives to respond to emergency in the most helpful way possible way. Change your smoke detector batteries. Scream “fire!” as you leave a burning building. If you see something, say something.
Yet, somehow, Ben Affleck has a giant phoenix tattoo on his back that looks like he went into a tattoo parlor and said, “You got colors? Use them all!” And his best friend, Matt Damon, didn’t do his one damn job.
When asked about his friend's infamous tat during an interview on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Damon, 47, said, “It’s not one man’s job to tell another man what he can do to his back. You know, I support him in all of his artistic expression.”
You know what Matt? I don’t know. Support an artistic expression like, say, oil paintings. Or even making another film like Downsizing. But when a friend suggests recreating one of those Lisa Frank binders from 4th grade on his back, you step in and suggest otherwise. That's what friends are for.
The friends have been around the block together, with both of them landing their big break in 1997’s Good Will Hunting, cowritten by the duo and nominated for nine Oscars. Since then, both actors have gone on to have extremely successful careers in recent films like Gone, Girl and The Martian.
The back tattoo, which was once speculated as temporary ink for a movie role, reappeared this past week after Affleck was photographed on the beach shirtless. After Damon’s comments, Noah laughed and said, “Fair enough. That’s a good friend answer, actually.”
Is it, though?
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