Ben Affleck serves as the third wheel during dinner date

Ben Affleck serves as the third wheel during dinner date
Source: Daily Mail Online

Ben Affleck became the 'third wheel' alongside childhood friend Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso over the weekend.

The 52-year-old Affleck and 54-year-old Damon were spotted at Steak 48 in Beverly Hills alongside Damon's 48-year-old wife, who he tied the knot with in 2005.

They were spotted at the restaurant hours after they appeared at Netflix's Tudum event at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, where Ben roasted Matt for his grey beard.

They were both at the event to present the first footage from their Netflix action film The Rip, and then enjoyed a late dinner in Beverly Hills.

Ben was spotted wearing a black t-shirt under a black leather jacket, with blue jeans and black boots for the dinner outing.

Ben Affleck became the 'third wheel' alongside childhood friend Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso over the weekend.

The 52-year-old Affleck and 54-year-old Damon were spotted at Steak 48 in Beverly Hills alongside Damon's 48-year-old wife, who he tied the knot with in 2005.

They were spotted at the restaurant hours after they appeared at Netflix's Tudum event at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, where Ben roasted Matt for his grey beard.

His childhood friend Matt opted for a white button-down short-sleeved shirt, grey pants and white sneakers for his outing.

Damon grew out the grey beard to portray Odysseus in director Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey.

Filming started in late February on the film, which also stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron; though it's unclear if filming has yet to wrap.

When they took the stage, Affleck joked, 'I trusted Matt would shave the beard before Tudum. And here we are.'

They introduced co-stars Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeun, and Catalina Sandino Moreno.

Affleck and Damon portray Miami cops whose team's trust begins to fray upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house in Joe Carnahan's crime drama premiering January 16 on Netflix.

'The Rip came out of a deeply personal experience that my friend went through both as a father and as head of tactical narcotics for the Miami Dade police department,' Carnahan told Tudum last Saturday.
'It's inspired in part by his life and then, by my enduring love for those classic seventies cop thrillers that really valued character and interpersonal relationships and became touchstones of that era -- films like Serpico and Prince of the City and more recently, Michael Mann's Heat.'

Sasha Calle, Néstor Carbonell, Lina Esco, Scott Adkins, and Kyle Chandler will also appear in The Rip.

His childhood friend Matt opted for a white button-down short-sleeved shirt, grey pants and white sneakers for his outing.

They introduced co-stars Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeun, and Catalina Sandino Moreno.

Affleck and Damon portray Miami cops whose team's trust begins to fray upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house in Joe Carnahan's crime drama premiering January 16 on Netflix.

The Boston besties co-produced Bill Condon's $30M-budget remake of West End musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Ben's second ex-wife Jennifer Lopez, which hits US theaters October 10.

Matt is currently on break from filming Universal Pictures $250M-budget 'mythic action epic' already scheduled to hit theaters on July 17, 2026.

The Odyssey marks Damon's third time being directed by Nolan after his 2023 atomic bomb biopic Oppenheimer and his 2014 sci-fi epic Interstellar.

Principal photography officially began February 25 on the IMAX flick, and filming is also expected to take place in Italy, Greece, Morocco, Scotland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.