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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s 'biggest fight' landed one of the stars in the hospital!


NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 13: (L-R) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon attend Netflix's "The Rip" New York Premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on January 13, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/WireImage)

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are remembering the wildest fight they’ve ever had over the last four decades.

HOLLYWOOD, CA - JANUARY 09:  Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck attend the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' "Live By Night" at TCL Chinese Theatre on January 9, 2017 in Hollywood, California.  (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CA - JANUARY 09: Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck attend the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' "Live By Night" at TCL Chinese Theatre on January 9, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

The longtime besties paid a visit to “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” where they got into an altercation that involved acorns???

“It was our biggest fight,” Affleck said.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 13: (L-R) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon attend Netflix's "The Rip" New York Premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on January 13, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 13: (L-R) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon attend Netflix's "The Rip" New York Premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on January 13, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

The incident took place on set of their 1992 film, “School Ties,” when they “were just 19, 20-years-old, and there were a bunch of us. Brendan Fraser was in the movie, Cole Hauser was in the movie, Chris O’Donnell. And in between takes we were just bored, and we were walking across this school where we were shooting, and there were acorns, and so we just started whipping them at each other."

To which Affleck quipped, "Because when you're 19, that seems like a good idea."

“[Affleck] threw one at Cole, and Cole moved, and I turned, and it literally hit me in the eye,” Damon remembers.

12/4/1997-New York, NY: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck at the premiere of "Good Will Hunting" at the Ziegfeld Theater.   (Photo by Mitchell Gerber/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
12/4/1997-New York, NY: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck at the premiere of "Good Will Hunting" at the Ziegfeld Theater. (Photo by Mitchell Gerber/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Damon was obviously concerned about his injured eye, but Affleck was more worried about how this would impact his career and being in the film.

"Mind you, I had like three lines in the movie. And while I cared about Matt having vision, my first thought was, ‘I[‘m gonna] be fired for this.'"

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 13: (L-R) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon attend Netflix's "The Rip" New York Premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on January 13, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/WireImage)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 13: (L-R) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon attend Netflix's "The Rip" New York Premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on January 13, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/WireImage)

Damon’s injury was serious enough that he had to wear an eyepatch for a few days while he was recovering.

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