Gay sex ... About half way through the script, there’s an oral sex scene that was never intended to be filmed. Source: Supplied
WHEN two budding screenwriters by the names of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon finished penning their debut feature film, Good Will Hunting, they wanted to make sure it landed in Hollywood’s best hands.
So they hatched a genius plan to filter the pretenders from the contenders.
The story has become part of Hollywood folklore, and the story was recently shared by Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein when he appeared on the Graham Norton Show.
Golden boys ... Damon and Affleck won the 1998 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting. Source: Getty Images
It goes something like this: It was the mid-90s, and Affleck and Damon had sold the Good Will Hunting screenplay to Castle Rock for $675,000 and the studio was set to make the film.
But the duo was having creative differences with Castle Rock, and they started looking for a new mob to bring their beloved baby to the big screen.
To make sure they found the right home and didn’t just repeat the drama they had with Castle Rock, they hid something in the script to weed out the dud producers.
About halfway through the screenplay, they inserted an oral sex scene between two male professors.
Kingpin ... Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood hit maker, was with Miramax in the 90s before going it alone. Source: Getty Images
Enter Weinstein — one of show business’s most respected and feared producers. At the time, he was one of the hitmaking kingpins at Miramax.
Weinstein requested a meeting with Affleck and Damon after reading the script and loving it.
He had one major bone to pick with them, though.
“In the meeting with them I said, ‘I only have one really big note on the script. About page 60 the two leads, both straight men, have a sex scene. What the hell is that? I don’t get it’,” Weinstein said on the Graham Norton Show.
“And they go, ‘That’s the scene we wrote to see if guys like you read the script because every studio executive we went to hadn’t read it. You’re the only guy who brought it up so you get the movie’.”
The rest is Hollywood history. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant, it made $226, million worldwide and won two Academy Awards, including the Best Original Screenplay nod for Affleck and Damon.
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