If You Build It, An Acting Career Will Come

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Boston besties Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were extras in the Field of Dreams classic scene at Fenway Park. They were only teenagers in the summer of 1988.

When Ben Affleck was working on the 2002 spy thriller The Sum of All Fears he joked to director Phil Alden Robinson, it's "nice working with you again." Robinson clearly had no idea what could possibly referring to, and Affleck explained that he and Damon were among the thousands of extras at Fenway. Small world!

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