--- title: Ben Affleck Surprised Matt Damon With a Funny '80s Photo description: Ben Affleck sent a 1988 photo of Matt Damon to a radio show. canonical: https://time.com/4393032/ben-affleck-matt-damon-80s-photo/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-05T14:57:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:01.817Z og:title: Watch Matt Damon React to a 1988 Photo Ben Affleck Sent og:description: With '80s hair og:url: https://time.com/4393032/ben-affleck-matt-damon-80s-photo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Matt Damon React to a 1988 Photo Ben Affleck Sent twitter:description: With '80s hair twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Ben Affleck Totally Embarrass His Friend Matt Damon With This Old Photo by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 5, 2016 2:57 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 5, 2016 2:57 PM UTC Unfortunately [Matt Damon](http://time.com/4241109/ben-affleck-smuggles-matt-damon-jimmy-kimmel-live/) and Ben Affleck are not together every waking moment of every day. But Affleck is always looking out for his buddy, which is why he happily supplied the public with a 1988 snap of Damon. Being a top notch friend, Affleck sent the photo — Matt in a leather jacket during his musical theater phase — while Damon was doing a Twitter Q&A on the Australian radio show [Smallzy’s Surgery](http://www.nova969.com.au/show/smallzys-surgery) with Alicia Vikander for the upcoming _Jason Bourne_ movie. Reacting to the photo, Damon said, “I had that exact wig made for the Liberace movie \[_Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace_\], for the ’80s sequence. We called it the Flock of Seagulls wig…that’s my real hair.” The ’80s hair is not even the point. The point is to watch Damon the moment he realizes Ben has blindsided him with this blackmail material. > [](https://twitter.com/BenAffleck/status/749748641556860928) Recently, Damon said heartfelt things about his friend Ben in a commencement speech at [MIT](http://time.com/4357029/matt-damon-mit-commencement/), but this video is probably what filled Affleck with more pride. In this moment, there is no one in the world more surprised than Matt Damon. At the sight of the photo, ever so slightly off balance for moment, Damon says, “that’s nice of him,” and sips from a mug of coffee, likely plotting a revenge plot. Watch below. > [](https://twitter.com/UniversalPicsAU/status/749883969592696832) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4393032/ben-affleck-matt-damon-80s-photo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4393032/ben-affleck-matt-damon-80s-photo/"},"headline":"Watch Ben Affleck Totally Embarrass His Friend Matt Damon With This Old Photo","datePublished":"2016-07-05T14:57:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:01.817Z","description":"\"That's nice of him.\"","url":"https://time.com/4393032/ben-affleck-matt-damon-80s-photo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","celebrities","Matt Damon","Ben Affleck"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4393032/ben-affleck-matt-damon-80s-photo/","name":"Watch Ben Affleck Totally Embarrass His Friend Matt Damon With This Old Photo"}}]}] ```