Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss working together on new Netflix action thriller The Rip

Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss working together again ahead of the release of their new Netflix action thriller film The Rip.

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00:00All right, what do we tell them?

00:03A lie.

00:04I get them to sign a consent to search for dope.

00:07It makes it a lot easier if you're comfortable with and respect and admire the people that you're working with.

00:12This is certainly the case with Madden, with all the actors in this movie.

00:14Pass them up. Hand your phone.

00:16Hey, what are you doing?

00:17Hand your phone up. I want everything I want. Burners, 33s.

00:19I don't have burners.

00:20I mean, we've spent the better part of our lives in rooms writing things together.

00:25And we did theater together in high school, you know, so it's very comfortable for us to work together in this way.

00:33And we had done Air a few years earlier, and that was really fun.

00:37And so when this came up, we thought, oh, this is a really interesting dynamic between these characters.

00:42And it's a chance to get this incredible ensemble.

00:45And we've known Joe for more than 20 years, so it was a pretty easy decision for us to jump on this one.