Matt Damon's bittersweet memories about 'Good Will Hunting' 20 years later

Caitlin George Parker

On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Matt Damon stopped by and reminisced about the somewhat inappropriate language in the movie that launched his career, Good Will Hunting. Though the film won him and Ben Affleck an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and won Robin Williams Best Actor in a Supporting Role, some memories have become bittersweet over time.

He said: “To look back and know that Robin got this horrific degenerative brain disease and lost his life, Elliott Smith who wrote that beautiful music and those songs is gone as well. And now with the revelations about Harvey [Weinstein], you know, and knowing that there were women who were really being traumatized, you know, by the person who financed the movie, it’s weird.”

It seemed that the memory of Robin Williams was perhaps the most painful for Damon as he recalled visiting a bench in Boston, which can be seen in the film, where Williams delivered a now-famous monologue to a young Matt.

“I hadn’t been there since Robin had passed away,” Damon said. “And we went and took a picture sitting on the bench with my kids. They didn’t understand the significance of it. My wife did, and my father was with us so you know, so it’s very, very powerful feelings, kind of, you know, conflicting, you know, conflicting and colliding with each other.”

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on CBS.

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