Ben Affleck looks back at working with Matt Damon and Kevin Costner on ‘Field of Dreams’

Ben Affleck rejects the idea that Kevin Costner remembered him and close friend Matt Damon as extras on Costner’s 1989 movie Field of Dreams.

“Kevin is being kind saying he remembers us, because we were not memorable,” Affleck insisted on Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. “We were, like, just annoying — you know what I mean? — and there were a lot of people there. It’s sweet of him to say that, but I’m pretty sure he remembers, like, the actors with lines.”

The sports movie filmed in Affleck’s first few years of earning professional credits, and he was eager to work when he could.

“We were, you know, serious actors from a very young age,” he told Kimmel, “and so, we got to know the local casting person in Boston, who would cast when a movie came to town. Like Field of Dreams, you know, they needed extras, and so we would go do extra work, because we wanted to be actors.”

While Affleck was confident that Costner didn’t remember him, he certainly remembered Costner.

“It was, like, seeing, you know, God. Him and James Earl Jones,” Affleck said of Costner’s costar.

The Argo actor and director joked that he’d wanted to ask Jones, who’d played Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, to call him Luke or say he’s his father.

“We went and it was like two days in Fenway Park. Everything about it felt so big time, and I remember, we thought we knew that actors were kind of fraudulent, and Costner took batting practice.”

They realized that they shouldn’t underestimate the Bull Durham star’s skills on the field.

“And I will say, he banged a bunch of balls off the Green Monster,” Affleck said. “Hit a ball out of the park.”

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He then segued into a memory of Damon that Kimmel, who’s had a funny faux feud with Damon running for years, truly enjoyed.

“Twenty years later, I was looking through an interview of Matt,” Affleck said. “And then I see him in this interview say, ‘Yeah I took batting practice at Fenway Park, and I hit the ball off the Green Monster.’ I was like, ‘Matt are you remembering yourself as Kevin Costner?'”

Kimmel said that sounded correct.

Affleck has a bigger role in his latest project, The Accountant 2, which arrives in theaters Friday.