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TIL that the original script for Good Will Hunting contained a scene in which Robin Williams gives Stellan Skarsgård a blowjob. This was because Damon and Affleck knew studio execs never read scripts and the scene wasn’t mentioned until Harvey Weinstein read it thinking it was hilarious

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