Ben Affleck and Matt Damon inserted a spoof gay sex scene into the script for their breakthrough movie Good Will Hunting to test whether Hollywood producers had read it.
The pair hawked the screenplay for their 1997 hit around Tinseltown but feared many studio bosses would turn it down without giving it a fair assessment.
So they hatched a plan to add a bizarre sex scene halfway through the script, and they happily agreed a deal with Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein when he was the only producer to query it.
Weinstein tells UK talk show host Graham Norton, "Everyone in Hollywood wanted Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and the film. In the meeting with them I said, 'I only have one really big note on the script. About page 60 the two leads, both straight men, have a sex scene. What the hell is that? I don't get it,' and they go, 'That's the scene we wrote to see if guys like you read the script because every studio executive we went to hadn't read it. You're the only guy who brought it up so you get the movie.'"
- WENN
