It was 23 years ago that Matt Damon met his now-wife Luciana Barroso while she was working in a Miami bar. But it turns out there was another Hollywood A-lister very close to Matt that Luciana first thought was "the cute one" – yes, Ben Affleck.
In 1997, Luciana and a friend went to the movie theater to watch Good Will Hunting, a drama starring newcomers Ben and Matt, and the acclaimed actor Robin Williams.
Matt starred as the titular Will, who chooses to work as a janitor at MIT, despite his genius-level IQ, and Ben as his childhood best friend. When Will's talents are discovered, he is taken under the wing of an MIT professor (Stellan Skarsgård) and also begins therapy with psychologist Sean Maguire (Williams), which forces him to confront his past.
But despite Matt's leading man status and good looks, it was Ben who Luciana had a crush on, and one Matt discovered early on in their romance.
"After we'd been together for a little while, probably a few months... 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," Matt shared ea...