Sean was a sad character, and Will discovers that he has this Achilles’ heel. And it was also the original scene that Matt wrote.
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Van Sant: The main scene for me in the movie is the first time Will meets Sean, that was always kind of the best scene. The movie was centered on the relationship between Will Hunting, played by Damon, and therapist Sean Maguire, Robin Williams’s character. But why is Matt saying this shit? Like, he holds his fucking tongue for 15 years and now because it’s Boston magazine, he says he started crying? His career is not over, you know what I mean? He needs people to believe that he’s like Jason Bourne or whatever!
I remember just sitting next to Ben and I had tears rolling down my cheeks because I was just so happy and relieved that it was really happening.Īffleck: We did tear up a little bit. And when Gus called action and we watched these guys-I mean accomplished actors-do our scene verbatim, we had waited so long for this to happen. This was their baby, more than anyone else.ĭamon: The very first day, I remember we started crying, because it was a scene between Robin and Stellan. After it, Matt and Ben and Gus went in for this big hug.
We gotta eat at the Tasty.”īender: I’ll never forget the first day of shooting. Then there were the marketing people, who were hoping we would use chain restaurants so that maybe they could get a marketing tie-in.
In one of those panicked producer calls, I called Reebok and was like, “Look, I need some sweatpants.” It was five in the morning because we were trying to get a shot when the sun came up and this lady from Reebok got out of bed, showed up, brought all the stuff. They wear the Nike sweatsuit or the Adidas sweatsuit. Casey and Ben were trying to convince her, Look, these guys are poor, but the way they show their thing is they buy name-brand shit. They were working class, but she dressed them almost like homeless people. The wardrobe she picked for the first day for the four guys so freaked us out that we had this mini meltdown. Moore: We had this costume designer, Beatrix, who came from Eastern Europe. Missy Stewart (production designer): We would talk about what would make it more “Boston.” Shooting started on April 14, 1997, and was completed in just nine weeks. So then we got a message from Harvey and he was like, “DON’T TAKE ROBIN TO ANY MORE LOCATIONS!” It was because of Robin that we got to shoot at the L Street. I remember Matt and Ben looking at it and thinking, I wonder if this will ever happen to me?ĭamon: When Robin got a feel for that place, he called Harvey and was like, “We have to shoot this bar,” even though he wasn’t in any of those scenes. Williams: I remember this guy came up with a heavy Irish accent, I couldn’t understand a word he was saying, and another guy, a Southie guy, said, “He wants to know where your private plane is.”Ĭharlie Harrington (Boston location scout): The whole neighborhood found out about it, and we kind of got mobbed and left. Guys got really drunk and wanted to fight me because I had my hat on backwards. I mean, you gotta remember Whitey Bulger was still around and running things. I remember thinking, This is a fucking mistake. It was pretty dangerous back then.ĭamon: And then one night we took Robin to the L Street Tavern….Īffleck: Robin wanted to get a taste of Boston.
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The driver was so afraid that his black car would be destroyed there. We went out to some bars in South Boston. I had to go to Boston and see the boys and Gus. Stellan Skarsgard (Gerald Lambeau): I was in Rhode Island shooting Amistad with Spielberg, and I was sent the script.