Lina Esco reveals she and Ben Affleck were…
Lina Esco and Ben Affleck laughed while going all the way in which.
The actress, 40, confessed that the co-stars had a foolish response to filming intimate scenes for their new crime thriller “The Rip.”
“We were giggling,” Esco told People earlier this week. “We were just two dorks, dorking around.”
Lina Esco attends Netflix’s “The Rip” Leading Latinas Dinner at MILA Miami Beach on January 15, 2026. Getty Images for Netflix
She famous that Affleck, 53, is “just such a sweet man and easygoing, it’s just easy. Sometimes you don’t run into people that are easy, and I can honestly say it just felt [like an] easygoing set energy, which is very rare.”
Esco’s expertise taking pictures the Netflix film was general a constructive one.
“I would say just the energy and the tone on set was very lowkey, very down to earth,” the “S.W.A.T.” actress gushed.
“There was nothing pretentious about anyone, it was just easy,” Esco continued. “And so is the director [Joe Carnahan]. He just made sure everyone was comfortable at all times, played soundtrack music at all times, pushed you into the tone and the mood of the film. And at all times it felt like you were in the movie — and again, [a] very cozy, loving set.”
Lina Esco and Ben Affleck in “The Rip.” Netflix
Lina Esco in a scene from “The Rip.” AP
The film, which follows, “a group of Miami cops” who “discover a stash of millions in cash, leading to distrust as outsiders learn about the seizure, making them question who to rely on,” per the synopsis, also stars Matt Damon, Teyana Taylor, Kyle Chandler and Steven Yeun.
Affleck and Damon, 55, produced “The Rip,” with Damon’s spouse Luciana, also serving as a producer.
Fans can also look ahead to seeing the “Good Will Hunting” actor in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Greek epic “The Odyssey.”
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Matt Damon, Ted Sarandos, Teyana Taylor, Ben Affleck, Joe Carnahan and Lina Esco at the premiere of “The Rip” on Jan. 13, 2026. Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Earlier this month, Damon opened up about cutting down his weight for the highly-anticipated project while on Jason and Travis Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast.
“I was in really good shape. I lost a lot of weight,” Damon said before noting that Nolan, 55, “said he wanted me like lean but strong. It’s a weird thing.”
“I literally, just because of this other thing I did with my doctor, stopped eating gluten. I used to walk around between 185 and 200 pounds. and I did that whole movie at 167 pounds,” the Oscar winner admitted. “I haven’t been that light since high school. So it was a lot of training and a really strict diet.”
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon in “The Rip.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection
Nolan’s motion function, which is about Homer’s historical Greek epic poem, “The Odyssey,” also stars Zendaya, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o and Charlize Theron.
In March, footage of Damon taking pictures in Favignana, Italy, surfaced.
The “Jason Bourne” star was shirtless, rocking a chiseled physique, tan pants and a scruffy grey beard.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon star in the new crime thriller “The Rip.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection
At the time, Affleck detailed how Damon took on stunt rehearsals for “The Odyssey.”
“I used to be very gung ho about like, ‘Oh, I’ll do the fights, I’ll do the stunts.’ And now I am very much, ‘At what point is the stunt performer going to come in and do this?’” he told GQ. “It’s one of the things I was talking to Matt about — he’s going off to do this Chris Nolan movie and doing a lot of stunt rehearsal, and it was kind of like, Boy, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? Where you really have to go learn the fights — this is Bourne Identity kind of territory.”
While working with coach Jason Walsh for 2016’s “Jason Bourne,” Damon adopted a strict workout routine.
Matt Damon on set in Favignana, Italy, taking pictures scenes for “The Odyssey.” CIAOPIX/COBRA TEAM / BACKGRID
The actions star did 100 sit-ups, 300 push-ups, 50 squats and 50 squat jumps daily.
“He loves challenges,” Walsh told Men’s Health at the time. “We got to the point where we were doing 100 pull-ups two or three times a week. We’d see how many sets it takes to get 100. Once you lose some of that excess weight, pull-ups get a lot easier. He was doing 30-some pull-ups per set.”
“My biggest worry was him breaking,” he added. “Keeping him injury-free for two straight years, doing action films, was the biggest accomplishment.”
“They wanted him to look like a badass with his shirt off,” Walsh teased. “Lean and mean.”
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