{"id":683,"date":"2015-02-02T03:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T11:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=683"},"modified":"2015-02-02T03:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T11:59:59","slug":"good-will-hunting-sex-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/good-will-hunting-sex-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Will Hunting Gay Sex Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with <strong>Graham Norton<\/strong>, <strong>Harvey Weinstein <\/strong>talked about the hoops he jumped through to secure the rights to <strong><em>Good Will Hunting<\/em><\/strong>. In the first incredible statement, he said, &#8220;Everyone in Hollywood wanted <strong>Matt Damon <\/strong>and <strong>Ben Affleck <\/strong>and the film.&#8221; Perhaps I was in a fog at the time, but I don&#8217;t remember people caring one way or the other about Matt or Ben. Damon had done precious little work prior to this project&#8230;.although I do remember Affleck in <strong><em>Mallrats<\/em><\/strong>. Weinstein went on to reveal that the duo met with oodles of producers to determine the right partner. When Harv came in, he had one criticism about the script. &#8220;About page 60, the two leads (both straight men) have a sex scene. What the hell is that?&#8221; Turns out, the boys slipped that in just to see if potential producing partners even read the script. And that, dear readers, is how a project written by two guys who had been uncredited extras in <strong><em>Field of Dreams<\/em><\/strong> got their project produced by <em>Miramax<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Graham Norton, Harvey Weinstein talked about the hoops he jumped through to secure the rights to Good Will Hunting. In the first incredible statement, he said, &#8220;Everyone in Hollywood wanted Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and the film.&#8221; Perhaps I was in a fog at the time, but I don&#8217;t remember<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}