Cole Sprouse Just Revealed That He And His Brother Dylan Basically Ignored Matt Damon When He Excitedly Arranged To Meet Them At The Height Of Their “Suite Life” Fame

The famous twins were newborns when they made their acting debut in Grace Under Fire in 1993, a role that they shared for five years.

Then, at age 5, they starred alongside Adam Sandler in their first major theatrical role in the hit comedy Big Daddy. 

Meanwhile, Cole had a recurring role as Ross’s son Ben in the sitcom Friends, sharing scenes with the show’s lead stars such as Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry.

“Did I ever tell you the Matt Damon story? The Matt Damon story is incredible,” Cole began. “So my brother and I were in set school at the time, and we were really into World of Warcraft.”

“One of the PAs comes knocking on the set school door and goes: ‘Oh, you guys won’t believe it, Matt Damon is going to be here today. His kids love the show, so he’s going to be here in, like, 30 minutes,’” he continued. “And I remember Dylan and I turning to each other and just going: ‘Ugh, I can’t believe we have to get off World of Warcraft right now.’ We must have been 15.”

The Sprouse twins turned 15 in August of 2007.

“I think he came in and was like: ‘Hey guys, wow, so nice to meet you!’ and we were like: ‘Hey man, hey, how are you doing?' and went right back to the game,” he added.

Despite acknowledging that he and Dylan may owe Matt an apology, Cole said that he loves the anecdote because of what it represents about their childhood.

“I look back on that story now, and I actually love it,” he said. “Because the whole ethos of whatever was around us didn’t really affect us more than we were just being kids and playing video games.”

“And I’m sure, you know, if I ever meet Matt Damon again, I’m just going to say I’m sorry and it’ll be all good,” he concluded.

Last year, their onscreen Suite Life mom, Kim Rhodes, revealed that the brothers would often step up to protect the rest of the cast and crew.

Speaking on the Back to the Best podcast, Kim said that their costar Phill Lewis had made it clear to Dylan and Cole that they held all of the power very early into the show. 

“Phill was like: ‘Look, you’re the only people on this set that are not expendable, so you take the bullet every time,’ and they took that so seriously,” she explained.  “It would be so easy for a 12-year-old to be like: ‘The prop didn’t work, it’s their fault!’ and they were always like: ‘No, no, I’m sorry, I’ll work on it, I wasn’t aware, I wasn’t paying attention.’”

“And so the fact they, at such a young age, understood that it was their job to make sure everybody else was able to do their job was really impressive,” Kim continued, before recounting two specific times when Dylan and Cole exhibited exceptional maturity on set.

“I said something, and this individual held up the swear jar and shook their finger at me,” she recalled. “I’m crumbling inside, like, I just assume anybody who isn’t me has the power to tell me what I should be doing.”

But then her young costars came to her defense over her language. Kim shared: “Cole goes: ‘We’ve worked with Adam Sandler!’ and Dylan goes: ‘Yeah, we've heard them all already, I think she’s fine!’”

“And I was like, those little fuckers said I could swear,” Kim laughed. “That was the first season, this was, like, the third episode. They were maybe 12 when they said this. They defended me all the way through.”



She then shared another sweet anecdote, sharing: “I got pregnant when I was on the show, and of course, the show dealt with it by making fat jokes. One of my favorite memories is that Dylan had a line that was a fat joke, and he kept skipping over it.”

“It was in the middle of a chunk of dialogue, so he kept skipping this laugh line and skipping it, and skipping it, and skipping it,” Kim went on. “Finally, we get in front of the studio audience, and he skips it, and the executive producer screams: ‘Cut!’”

Audibly still proud of Dylan to this day, the star added: “That’s my little man. They’re both my little men. They both were very protective of everyone on set.”

Suite Life ran until 2008, when it returned as the spin-off The Suite Life on Deck. This ran until 2011, the same year that The Suite Life Movie was released.

Once Suite Life ended, Dylan and Cole enrolled in further education at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. 

Cole focused on humanities and archaeology, while Dylan studied video game design. They graduated in 2015.