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While writing 1997’s “Good Will Hunting,” Affleck was inspired by his father, a social worker who was a Harvard custodian at one time, when coming up with Will Hunting’s job as a janitor at MIT.

Through the years, Affleck has used his stardom to fight for better wages for service workers like his father.

Pictured: Affleck with friend Matt Damon (left) at a rally for the Harvard Living Wage Campaign on May 6, 2000.