It just makes a world of difference for me to be able to be at home and be connected to who I really am.” “I’ve done about half of those projects living with my mom, being around friends. “I’ve filmed about five or six movies in Boston and Massachusetts and, personally, it’s been a great experience for me,” Affleck continues. “I don’t know if it means that things have changed, or that I’ve come a long way, or just that the only part that I’m really able to play convincingly is somebody from the exact place where I grew up - it’s a toss-up,” quips Affleck, whose first credited role was as a young Bobby Kennedy in the 1990 miniseries “The Kennedys of Massachusetts.” Indeed, Casey Affleck felt a “sense of pride” for winning an Academy Award for playing a character born and raised in his home state. Bostonians - a moniker claimed by residents living anywhere from Boston proper to as far away as, say, 30 miles outside the city - are, by and large, fiercely proud people. Kenneth Lonergan’s 2016 tragedy “Manchester By the Sea,” which won the Oscar for screenplay (Lonergan) and lead actor (Casey Affleck) was filmed in the eponymous seaside town, as well as in nearby Beverly, Essex, Swampscott, Lynn, Salem and Tewksbury. Since then, filming in the state has ballooned, feeding not only the film industry at large, but local businesses and skilled professionals. That changed in 2006 when Massachusetts instituted its film tax credit initiative. Until then, with the exception of a few projects such as the 1992 Brendan Fraser-starrer “School Ties” (shot in Concord), most Massachusetts-set films and TV series - from “Cheers” to Sidney Lumet’s courtroom classic “The Verdict” - were filmed elsewhere. janitor was shot primarily on a Toronto soundstage. Save for about two weeks of gathering external footage, Gus Van Sant’s drama about a math genius-cum-M.I.T. “I think I shouted at Ben, ‘Put me in your movie!’ And so I was an extra in ‘Good Will Hunting.’”īut filming in Massachusetts in the 1990s was exorbitantly cost-prohibitive. “I knew Ben and Casey from high school - their mom was my teacher in third and fifth grade,” Heder says. There, near the Au Bon Pain sandwich shop on Brattle Street, Heder spotted two buddies from Cambridge Ringe and Latin School, then-unknowns Ben and Casey Affleck, shooting a scene for “Good Will Hunting,” the 1997 film that would score two Academy Awards, help usher in the era of Big Screen Boston and turn the Affleck brothers and Matt Damon, all actors in the movie and Massachusetts natives (“Massholes” in the local vernacular), into giant Hollywood stars. It was the late 1990s and future Oscar-winning “ CODA” filmmaker Siân Heder was ambling across Harvard Square, close to the home in which she grew up in Cambridge, Mass.
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