Matt Damon’s wife Luciana had a crush on Ben Affleck after Good Will Hunting

Matt Damon’s wife, Luciana, initially thought Ben Affleck was "the cute one" in Good Will Hunting. Photo / Getty Images

Matt Damon’s wife thought Ben Affleck was “the cute one” in Good Will Hunting long before the couple met.

Actor Damon, 55, and Luciana, 49, met in a bar in Miami, Florida, in 2003 and months into their relationship he was introduced to her best friend. It was then that Damon learned Luciana’s pal eyed him and his spouse was attracted to 53-year-old actor Affleck.

Appearing on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday, Damon, who popped the question to Luciana shortly before Labour Day in September 2005, recalled: “This is f****** completely true.

“After we’d been together for a little while, probably a few months, she admitted that – I think I met her best friend from high school, and it came out that the two of them went and saw Good Will Hunting together, and her best friend thought I was the cute one, and she thought Ben was the cute one.

“So she admitted to me... I’m like, ‘You got the wrong one?’ She told me that 23 years ago.”

Matt Damon (left) and Ben Affleck star in a new film, The Rip, which is produced by the former's wife, Luciana. Photo / Getty Images

Matt said the idea of Luciana, who produces his and Affleck’s new movie, The Rip, once thinking his co-star was “cute” did not stay with him.

Affleck said: “She’s a great producer and a really good friend, and yeah, I never got that vibe from her. So I think something I did in real life rubbed it off.”

Matt, who married Luciana during a private ceremony in Manhattan, New York, in December 2005, said: “Finally, she met him and all that went away.”

In the pair’s interview on The Howard Stern Show, Affleck also shared he has “been witness to a lot of beautiful, lovely things” from Matt and Luciana.

Affleck, who was married to 53-year-old actor Jennifer Garner from 2005 until they split in 2015, with their divorce finalised in 2018, said: “It’s a really gorgeous marriage and friendship and two people who, when they’re apart and independent of one another, are one another’s partner.

“I didn’t see the first day, but I have a feeling it’s improved.”

As Damon and Affleck’s segment came to a close, the latter, who was hitched to 56-year-old singer Jennifer Lopez in 2022, but split in 2024, with their divorce finalised in 2025, joked he “should ask Lucy what her friend’s number is” to bring the situation full circle.

But Damon, who has daughters, Alexia, 25, Isabella, 19, Gia, 17, and Stella, 15, with Luciana, and is also stepdad to Alexia, 27, with whom Luciana has with her ex-husband, Arbello Barroso, pointed out: “She’s married.”

Affleck said: “I just thought it was a funny joke – I can’t resist. Story of my life.”