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Matt Damon remembers Robin Williams on the Golden Globes red carpet

By Karen Butler
Matt Damon (R) and Luciana Barroso attend the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 8, 2017. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
1 of 3 | Matt Damon (R) and Luciana Barroso attend the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 8, 2017. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- It's been 20 years since Matt Damon's collaboration with Robin Williams -- Good Will Hunting -- was released in theaters, but Damon says he still fondly remembers his late co-star.

The beloved actor and comedian hanged himself in 2014 at his California home after battling serious health issues. He was 63.

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"Oh, man, [I have] a lot of Robin Williams memories, a lot of really good memories of him. Ben [Affleck] said recently, it's weird, we always felt like we were going to, we had this incredible debt to pay him back," Damon told interviewer Ryan Seacrest on the Golden Globes red carpet Sunday night.

"And we thought there would be time to do that and just the abruptness of somebody leaving like that and that realization comes that you're never going to be able to pay back this incredible thing somebody did for you," he added. "That movie got made because Robin said he wanted to do it. That changed the trajectory of our careers completely, forever."

Damon was a presenter at this year's Globes. He also produced the movie Manchester by the Sea, which was up for Best Drama and starred Affleck's brother Casey. Both Afflecks also appeared in Good Will Hunting, alongside Damon and Williams.

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Lifelong friends Damon and Ben Affleck won a Globe in 1998 for penning Good Will Hunting, a film about the relationship between a troubled math genius/janitor and the kindly man who tries to counsel him.

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