{"id":408604,"date":"2026-01-15T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/408604\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:01:07","slug":"ben-afflecks-kids-love-visiting-matt-damon-on-set-but-not-their-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/408604\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck\u2019s Kids Love Visiting Matt Damon on Set but Not Their Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/ben-affleck-son-left-dad-082915717.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ben Affleck;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Affleck<\/a> might be an Oscar winner, but that doesn\u2019t mean his kids find him cool at work. While promoting his new Netflix film \u201cThe Rip,\u201d the actor shared a hilarious truth about his children\u2019s lack of interest in his own movie sets. Apparently, they have much higher standards for their time. While they often dodge their father\u2019s invitations to watch him work, they jumped at the chance to visit his best friend, Matt Damon. As such, Affleck\u2019s kids\u2014Violet (20), Fin (17), and Samuel (13)\u2014are much more impressed by \u201cUncle Matt\u2019s\u201d projects.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Affleck\u2019s kids couldn\u2019t care less about dad\u2019s set but were \u2018psyched\u2019 to visit Matt Damon\u2019s<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,\u201d Ben Affleck admitted that his children usually choose homework over Hollywood when he is the one in the director\u2019s chair. \u201cMy kids never want to come to the set when I\u2019m working,\u201d he quipped. He often tells them they are doing something exciting, but they simply reply, \u201cNo, I got school.\u201d They would literally rather stay in class and avoid detention than watch their dad film a scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, the mood changed when Matt Damon began filming the epic saga \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d with director Christopher Nolan. Affleck revealed that his middle child, Fin, is actually a huge fan of the original Greek epics. Because she was already reading \u201cThe Iliad\u201d and \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d the kids were \u201creally psyched\u201d to visit that specific set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Affleck expressed deep gratitude to Nolan for the rare invitation. Damon even noted that Affleck and his kids were the only guests allowed on the set during the entire six-month shoot. The kids got to witness \u201cincredible\u201d in-camera movie magic that felt like the epic films of the past. It seems that for the Affleck children, the only thing better than school is a world-class production as long as their dad isn\u2019t the boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.momtastic.com\/celebrities\/818199-ben-affleck-kids-matt-damon-set-the-odyssey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ben Affleck\u2019s Kids Love Visiting Matt Damon on Set but Not Their Dad;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ben Affleck\u2019s Kids Love Visiting Matt Damon on Set but Not Their Dad<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.momtastic.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Momtastic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Momtastic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck might be an Oscar winner, but that doesn\u2019t mean his kids find him cool at work.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[196455,21821,236,88,15281],"class_list":{"0":"post-408604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-affleck-children","9":"tag-ben-affleck","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-matt-damon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}