Ben Affleck Jokes About Matt Damon's Gray Beard at Netflix Tudum Event as They Premiere “The Rip” Footage

Ben Affleck poked nosy astatine Matt Damon during nan Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event.

The longtime friends and collaborators were connected manus to tease their upcoming movie The Rip (previously known arsenic RIP) during nan showcase connected Saturday, May 31.

Before premiering nan first footage for nan gritty-looking crime-thriller, Affleck joked to nan audience, "I trusted Matt would shave nan beard earlier Tudum — and present we are."

Damon is sporting nan beard arsenic he's presently difficult astatine activity connected Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, successful which he stars arsenic nan ancient Greek mythological leader Odysseus. Universal revealed the first photo of Damon successful characteristic — dressed successful armor and a cape pinch a coordinating headpiece — backmost connected Feb. 17. The actor showed disconnected immoderate awesome action prima abs and his long, grey beard successful characteristic arsenic Odysseus successful on-set photos released successful March.

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A synopsis for The Rip teases, "Upon discovering millions successful rate successful a derelict stash house, spot among a squad of Miami cops originates to fray. As extracurricular forces study astir nan size of nan seizure, everything is called into mobility — including whom they tin trust on."

Affleck, 52, antecedently said onstage successful January astatine nan 2025 Next connected Netflix Special Presentation successful Los Angeles, introducing to attendees nan first trailer for The Rip, directed by Joe Carnahan.

"This movie takes a look astatine nan things group will do for money," said Affleck astatine nan event, adding that The Rip is going for a operation of Heat meets Narc meets Training Day.

Affleck, who produced via his and Damon's institution Artists Equity, called nan movie a "really fun, engaging thrust that keeps you guessing. It’s a compelling, analyzable quality play that besides hues to these elements of cinema that group person loved forever."

Inspired by existent events, The Rip also stars Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeun, Sasha Calle, Catalina Sandino, Néstor Carbonell and Kyle Chandler.

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In an April release, Carnahan, 56, told Tudum that nan thought for The Rip "came retired of a profoundly individual acquisition that my friend went through, some arsenic a begetter and arsenic caput of tactical narcotics for nan Miami-Dade Police Department."

He added, “It's inspired successful portion by his life and then, by my enduring emotion for those classical ‘70's bull thrillers that really weighted nan characteristic and interpersonal relationships and became touchstones of that era — films like Serpico and Prince of nan City and much recently, Michael Mann's Heat.”

And nan head praised having "the champion of some worlds" successful Affleck and Damon, 54, whom he called "distinctly talented filmmakers, arsenic some imaginative friends and nan workplace heads."

“I've ne'er had arsenic easy an acquisition connected a movie arsenic I had on The Rip," Carnahan said. "They took exceptionally bully attraction of maine and backed my decisions each measurement of nan way.”

The Rip arrives connected Netflix January 16, 2026.