Matt Damon’s Brother Unfold Their Dad’s Ashes at Boston’s Fenway Park

Matt Damon and his brother Kyle granted their late father Kent one in all his dying needs on the 2018 World Sequence.

Within the new ESPN documentary Believers, which covers Damon’s hometown Boston Crimson Sox and the membership’s path towards profitable the 2004 World Sequence — on the time, the franchise’s first World Sequence victory in 86 years — Damon recollects that Kent requested that a few of his ashes be unfold at Boston’s Fenway Park earlier than his loss of life at 74 in 2017.

“My dad, when he was dying, he mentioned one of many locations he would love a few of his ashes was at Fenway,” Damon, 54, says in Believers‘ third episode, as he displays on the after-effects of the Crimson Sox’s 2004 championship win on his household and his hometown. “My dad was a pitcher. Left-handed pitcher. I used to be like, ‘Would you like me to attempt to get them on the mound?’ And he is like ‘F— no.’ He goes ‘Put them within the seats. I by no means made it to the sector.’ ”

As Damon recollects, when the Crimson Sox competed in MLB’s World Sequence once more in 2018, his brother Kyle and Kyle’s two sons attended the collection’ first sport in Boston, some 11 months after Kent’s loss of life.

“He referred to as me, ‘trigger he was like, ‘I’d by no means unfold Dad’s ashes with out you, however I bought slightly little bit of ’em in my pocket right here,’ ” Damon says. “I mentioned ‘Kyle, man, it is Chris Sale in opposition to Clayton Kershaw. It is the 2 greatest left-handed pitchers on the planet at Fenway within the World Sequence.’ I am like, ‘In fact you gotta do it. And it is you and also you’re along with his grandsons. You’ve got my absolute blessing.’ “

“And so he dumped slightly thimble of them there, which I feel is unlawful, however they bought swept up with the peanuts,” Damon says. “However that is what my dad needed. That is the place he needed them.”

Damon and his longtime buddy Ben Affleck produced Believers by way of their manufacturing firm Artists Fairness. The Boston-born film stars each seem all through the collection together with well-known Bostonians like Invoice Burr, Donnie Wahlberg, Uzo Aduba, Maria Menounos and Sam Jay, to recall their experiences rising up as Crimson Sox followers and the affect of watching the group break the so-called “Curse of the Bambino” after they received the World Sequence in 2004.

Elsewhere in Believers‘ third episode, Damon reveals that George Clooney helped the actor re-arrange his filming schedule for the film Syriana so Damon may attend that yr’s World Sequence after the Crimson Sox made an unprecedented comeback in opposition to the New York Yankees to advance to the championship.

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“George Clooney was producing that film, and I referred to as him and I mentioned, ‘That is about probably the most unprofessional factor I’ve mentioned in my life, however I am unable to work subsequent week,’ ” he says. “And George, he is simply laughing and laughing. He goes, ‘I already modified the schedule. I do know you have gotta get residence for the World Sequence.’ ”

Damon remembers that he “simply screamed” when the Crimson Sox clinched the World Sequence victory on Oct. 27, 2004, ending a painful 86-year championship drought for the group and its followers. “There was a salve placed on part of my soul that I really feel like I am cured,” he says.

Believers is streaming on the ESPN app now.