Ben Affleck Teases Matt Damon for Not Shaving His Gray Beard Earlier than Netflix Occasion

Ben Affleck poked enjoyable at Matt Damon throughout the Netflix Tudum 2025: The Stay Occasion.

The longtime pals and collaborators had been available to tease their upcoming movie The Rip (beforehand referred to as RIP) throughout the showcase on Saturday, Could 31.

Earlier than premiering the primary footage for the gritty-looking crime-thriller, Affleck joked to the viewers, “I trusted Matt would shave the beard earlier than Tudum — and right here we’re.”

Damon is sporting the beard as he is at present arduous at work on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, wherein he stars as the traditional Greek mythological hero Odysseus. Common revealed the first photo of Damon in character — wearing armor and a cape with a coordinating headpiece — again on Feb. 17. The actor showed off some impressive action star abs and his lengthy, grey beard in character as Odysseus in on-set photographs launched in March.

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A synopsis for The Rip teases, “Upon discovering hundreds of thousands in money in a derelict stash home, belief amongst a staff of Miami cops begins to fray. As exterior forces be taught in regards to the measurement of the seizure, every little thing is named into query — together with whom they’ll depend on.”

Affleck, 52, beforehand spoke onstage in January on the 2025 Subsequent on Netflix Particular Presentation in Los Angeles, introducing to attendees the primary trailer for The Rip, directed by Joe Carnahan.

“This film takes a have a look at the issues folks will do for cash,” stated Affleck on the occasion, including that The Rip goes for a mixture of Heat meets Narc meets Training Day.

Affleck, who produced through his and Damon’s firm Artists Fairness, known as the film a “actually enjoyable, partaking experience that retains you guessing. It’s a compelling, sophisticated human drama that additionally hues to those parts of cinema that individuals have cherished perpetually.”

Impressed by true occasions, The Rip additionally stars Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeun, Sasha Calle, Catalina Sandino, Néstor Carbonell and Kyle Chandler.

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In an April release, Carnahan, 56, informed Tudum that the concept for The Rip “got here out of a deeply private expertise that my buddy went via, each as a father and as head of tactical narcotics for the Miami-Dade Police Division.”

He added, “It is impressed partly by his life after which, by my enduring love for these traditional ‘70’s cop thrillers that basically valued the character and interpersonal relationships and have become touchstones of that period — movies like Serpico and Prince of the Metropolis and extra not too long ago, Michael Mann‘s Warmth.”

And the director praised having “one of the best of each worlds” in Affleck and Damon, 54, whom he known as “distinctly proficient filmmakers, as each artistic allies and the studio heads.”

“I’ve by no means had as straightforward an expertise on a film as I had on The Rip,” Carnahan stated. “They took exceptionally excellent care of me and backed my choices each step of the best way.”

The Rip arrives on Netflix January 16, 2026.