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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's pal Kevin Smith recalls Harvey Weinstein's role in their Hollywood breakthrough

Kevin Smith is looking back on how convicted sex offender and disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein played a crucial role in Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's ascension to Hollywood royalty.

Kevin Smith is looking back on how the convicted sex offender and disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein once played a crucial role in Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's ascension to Hollywood royalty. Smith told People he helped move Good Will Hunting to Miramax after its original production company, Castle Rock refused to let Damon and Affleck also star in the film; pictured Friday in NYC at the Tribeca Festival The film eventually went to the director Gus Van Sant, who had previously had critical and commercial success with Drugstore Cowboy (1989), the Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix–starring My Own Private Idaho(1991) and the black comedy To Die For (1995), which starred Nicole Kidman.

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