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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (February 24, 1998 02:24 a.m. EST) — Ben Affleck’s mother once warned him about the financial pitfalls of an acting career. So when he hit it big, he took the cash and bought her a new set of wheels.

“I trained him to feel the unequal distribution of wealth is very disturbing, so on the one hand I want to say he should give it all away, but on the other hand he bought me a car and I’m very happy,” mom Chris Affleck said in an interview in the Cambridge Chronicle.

The 25-year-old actor, who co-wrote and starred in the hit film “Good Will Hunting” with his childhood friend Matt Damon, has been nominated for an Oscar for best screenplay.

Acting, she thought, “was too hard to make a living,” Chris Affleck said she told her son.

He bought her a new dark green Jeep.

“Good Will Hunting,” which has also been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, is about a tough kid from South Boston who works as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also happens to be a math genius. Affleck plays his best friend.