On who he prefers for the 2008 Presidential Election: If [Barack] was the face of America, it would mitigate a lot of problems in the world. [Clinton] so f***ing smart, isn’t she? I always liked her. But I’m just not interested in a leader who can’t admit that they even made a mistake in the first place. That’s what we’ve been dealing with for seven years now.

On how he and Ben [Affleck] decided to spend their first big paycheck’s: We both bought Jeep Grand Cherokees. It was funny, because Ben and I, we both always wanted a Jeep Grand Cherokee for some reason. That was the car. We always talked about it but never could afford one. So when we suddenly had the money, we each instantly started trying to convince each other to get a different car. We’d say, ‘Hey, have you seen the Explorer? The Ford Explorer is really cool.’ Because we knew it would just be so gay to get the same car.

On the characters Bond vs Bourne: Bond is part of the system. He’s an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It’ll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they’re just very different things.

On actors keeping their personal lives to themselves: The better the actor, the less you know about his life. “I mean, nobody’s better than De Niro, and you don’t know anything about him, right?” Look at Meryl. We don’t know sh*t about Meryl. Look at Clint. And Jack. And Brando. Marlon Brando—who f*ing knows, right?

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Here, we see Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner hanging out on the beach in Hawaii, having a little fun in the sun on the Fourth of July. They make such a cute couple.

Below, a picture of Ben, Jennifer, and Matt Damon, surfing. That guy in the background of this picture seriously needs a tan, don’t you think?

Check out the third photo of just Jennifer Garner. She looks great in a red bikini bottom and black top. Looks like they are having a blast!

Nearly 10 years after Ben Affleck, 34, and Matt Damon, 36, snagged Hollywood’s highest honor for cowriting Good Will Hunting, the wonder boys are working together on a new screenplay, an insider tells Us Weekly.

“They’re really excited about it,” says the source.

The childhood pals wrote GWH during the early ’90s.

And what a difference a decade makes!

Then, the struggling actors shared an apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Now the screen idols have spent two weeks getting their creative juices flowing in a $13,000-a-week house in Kauai, Hawaii.

“Ben and Matt keep taking breaks to go surfing and hang out with their families,” adds the source. “But for the most part, they’ve been writing together on this trip.”

For all the latest news on Hollywood’s biggest stars, check out the new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands this week.

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Boston-born actors and The Departed co-stars Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg are set to star in a new film about boxer ‘Irish’ Micky Ward. Paramount Pictures has fast-tracked “The Fighter,” a drama about the Massachusetts-born boxer’s unlikely road to the world lightweight title.

Ward had a series of tough losses to Arturo Gatti that are considered among the best and most brutal bouts of the past 50 years. Wahlberg would play Ward, with Damon taking the role of Danny Ecklund, Ward’s half-brother who battled drugs and the temptation of crime to become the boxer’s trainer.

House executive producer Paul Attanasio is currently working on a rewrite of the script, and if approved by Wahlberg and Damon, the picture would begin shooting in Massachusetts this summer.

Like - what’s it like to kiss Matt Damon AND Brad Pitt.

Angelina – ever the diplomat – said that the difference is simple.

“You know, one’s a friend, and one’s my love,” she said. (Nicely played, Ang.)

Sawyer then wondered if the love scenes were awkward for Damon (who’s totes BFF with Pitt). “How do you do a love scene with the girlfriend of your good friend, especially if they’re Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt?”

“It’s weird…We all know each other…” Damon said.

Jolie added: “In reality both the people we’re involved with couldn’t have cared less about that because they know us. You know, it’s one of those things where it’s like the least threatening person…You know, ‘Good luck to you guys, I hope it’s not too awkward.’”

In the film, Damon plays one of the first CIA spies and Jolie plays his wife who is crushed by her husband’s secrets.

“I think early on when we realized this was going to be the film where I am the weak victim and he is the cruel, cruel, terrifying scary man,” Jolie said.

Damon, 36, said that all the famously independent actress had to do was play her polar opposite. In one scene, Damon said, Jolie has to act “so apologetic and just so unlike Angie.”

Jolie, 31, has two adopted children – one from Cambodia and one from Ethiopia. Sawyer asked why she hasn’t adopted a needy American child.

“Well, I don’t see borders in the world,” Jolie explained. “I mean I work with programs here for all children.”

But Jolie says when she has adopted in the past, she has based her decisions on her emotions. “Well, to be honest, it’s just been, I’ve been led by something emotional…I’ve been moved by the countries.”

Another question following Jolie is when — or whether — she and Pitt will wed. Damon got married while making The Good Shepherd.

Damon, who married live-in girlfriend Luciana Bozan while making the film, said he was surprised how marriage changed their relationship.

“It had more of an impact on me than I thought it would,” Damon said. “We already had the house in Florida and everything, and so I didn’t. … I didn’t think it was going to really change anything necessarily, but it actually did.”

So will Pitt and Jolie ever take the plunge? In the October issue of Esquire, Pitt stood up for gay rights and proclaimed, “Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.”

“I think he was … he was commenting just on the state of [what] we all wish for,” Jolie explained. “That’s not really a comment on whether or not we would or if we plan to.”

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