Ben Affleck, Matt Damon slam cancel culture on Joe Rogan podcast

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon sort out cancel tradition.

Throughout a latest interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience‘, the filmmaking duo mentioned their newest movie collectively, ‘The Rip’, and spoke candidly about how cancel tradition is taking issues to an excessive stage.

“I wager a few of these folks would have most well-liked to go to jail for 18 months or no matter after which come out and say, ‘No, however I paid my debt. There, we’re finished. Can we be finished?'” Damon mentioned of those that had been canceled. “Like the truth that you are being verbally abused so publicly, it simply by no means ends.”

Damon added that after somebody has been publicly referred to as out for one thing, they will not let the general public neglect it, and the error will “comply with you to the grave.”

Affleck and Damon criticized cancel tradition whereas on Joe Rogan’s podcast. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Photographs for Netflix)

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Affleck agreed with Damon, including that folks have “darkish, heightened instincts to isolate folks” and even “get pleasure out of” seeing another person in hassle, theorizing that it brings them pleasure as a result of they are not those in hassle.

“Possibly as a result of a part of us says, ‘It is not me.’ So if you happen to can level the finger, that is the place everybody appears. We really feel safer, ?’ Affleck mentioned.

“And to get any forgiveness out of it’s actually a rattling factor as a result of then it turns into unattainable to truly say, ‘Okay, yeah, I did that… That was fallacious. I perceive,’ , as a result of it would not matter. When you say you probably did it, you turn into a pariah.”

He added that he would not imagine “anybody desires to assume” that “the sum of who you’re is your worst second.”

Affleck and Damon achieved mainstream success once they received the Academy Award for Greatest Authentic Screenplay for “Good Will Looking.” (Timothy A. Clary/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

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The 2 Academy Award winners appeared on the podcast to advertise their newest movie, “The Rip,” which premiered on Netflix on Friday. Loosely primarily based on a real story, the crime thriller tells the story of a bunch of Miami cops who discover hundreds of thousands of {dollars}, leaving the officers questioning who they will belief.

Affleck and Damon’s working relationship dates again to their childhood, once they grew up watching native theater and auditioning collectively in Massachusetts. They achieved mainstream success once they wrote and starred within the 1997 movie “Good Will Looking,” which collectively received the 1998 Academy Award for Greatest Screenplay.

Earlier than working collectively on the 2021 movie ‘The Final Duel’, the duo took a protracted hiatus from working collectively, having beforehand labored collectively on six different movies, together with ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again’ in 2001.

“Properly, we had been gone, I feel it most likely took nearly 20 years to work collectively, and I feel partly as a result of when ‘Good Will Looking’ got here out, all that point in the past, we had been so seen as a group, that I feel we did not need to get typecast,” Damon mentioned of their hiatus from working collectively throughout an look on “The Kelly Clarkson Show“in January.

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The duo took a protracted break from their collaboration and reunited in 2021 for ‘The Final Duel’. (Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs)

He continued: “However yeah, I used to be watching that Peter Jackson documentary and on the finish of it, on the fourth on the finish, The Beatles performed that stay present on the roof and it was so superb, and I used to be watching it with my daughter, and he placed on a chyron that mentioned, ‘That is the final time The Beatles performed stay collectively.'”

Damon went on to say that the second made him emotional as he considered how rather more The Beatles might have finished collectively. He added that it was “the type of emotional impulse” for him to show to Affleck and say “let’s do that” and “not less than put our shields collectively.”

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