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| | Matt Damon may play Jason Bourne a fourth time, but thinks he's too old | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Several months ago, Matt Damon sort of confirmed that a fourth Jason Bourne film would be coming, most likely to be released in 2010. As his film projects keep coming, Matt is sort of rethinking the whole thing. Matt tells Parade Magazine in their March 12 issue (story via PR Inside) that he feels too old to play Bourne, that ?after a tough fighting scene, the next day you wake up and feel your body more.?
Matt also confirms that the fourth installment is pretty much still in development, most likely because they?re not going to be working from a Robert Ludlum book, instead making a new Bourne story out of whole cloth. PR Inside has more:
Does Matt Damon think he’s too old to play Jason Bourne again in a possible fourth installment of the Bourne action films?
“Listen, when I did the first movie, I was 29 years old,” the actor, who first appeared in The Bourne Identity in 2002, tells Parade.com. “I am 37 now, and after a tough fighting scene, the next day you wake up and feel your body more. That’s just the way it is.”
However, Matt isn’t ruling out another return to the tough action hero after the box office hits of its two sequels, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.
“We’re working on it,” he says. “This time it would be from an original script rather than a book by Robert Ludlum. But the director, Paul Greengrass, is busy and I am too, so we’ll see what happens.”
From The Press Association Hosted by Google
It really doesn?t sound like Matt is too excited about it. I can understand his ambivalence. Jason Bourne is Matt?s most famous character, and the original or ?classic? trilogy of Bourne Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum are so brilliant and wonderful, it would be messing with something great.
Matt has always taken his career very seriously, and though I?m sure he?s grateful for the Bourne films (and the paychecks), he probably wants to move on to other characters. It would have been really nice if Matt and the producers had realized that they ended Ultimatum on such a wonderful note, they should just leave it at that.
Note by Celebitchy: Damon can play Bourne well into his 40s, and I think he should. The Bourne films are in my opinion the best action franchise going. I was really hoping these quotes were old, as he said something similar while promoting the third film, but Parade bills it as a new interview.
Here’s Matt Damon filming scenes for his film The Human Factor in Cape Town, South Africa with Clint Eastwood on 3/13/09. Credit: BARM/Fame Pictures
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| | Matt Damon thinks the Oscars should be on a 10-year time delay | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon is still pissed that it took so many decades for the Academy to recognize Martin Scorsese. The two worked together for the first time in 2006?s The Departed, and the famous director had a big impact on the Bourne Supremacy actor in many ways. The biggest way? Matt thinks that the Academy should be on a ten-year delay. For example, the Oscars just held last month should have been recognizing films that were made in 1998. And last year?s films shouldn?t be recognized until the 2019 ceremony. Good luck with that, Matt. Contact Music has more:
Matt Damon insists the Oscars are no indication of whether films are good or not - even though he’s a past winner. The Bourne Supremacy star picked up a Best Screenplay Oscar in 1998 for Good Will Hunting, a film which also earned him a Best Actor nomination - but he’s skeptical about the way the Academy picks its winners.
He tells Parade.com, “I think that the best way to judge movies is, like, 10 years after they’re released. I think they should actually do the awards that way. I think they should have done the Academy Awards this year for movies from 1998. I think it’s better to look at a movie and then step back and look at it again. I don’t think that the awards necessarily get it right. I think they get it wrong more often than they get it right.”
It’s not the first time the actor has questioned the validity of the Oscars - he campaigned for director Martin Scorsese to win his first Academy Award three years ago (06), insisting the prizegiving would be a “farce” if the moviemaker was overlooked for The Departed.
He said, “Marty’s such a great, great director. He really wants it (Oscar) and he hasn’t made that a secret. He’s been upfront about saying it would really mean a lot to him.?
“He never felt that Hollywood had validated his work because his work is centered around the east coast and New York and that somehow threatened the establishment or something. But it demeans the Oscars more than it demeans Marty that he doesn’t have one, to be honest with you. Once he receives his (Oscar), then everyone who has one, their award is validated.”
Scorsese won his first Best Director Oscar for The Departed. It was the sixth time he had been nominated for the award.
[From Contact Music]
I totally understand the sentiments behind what Matt is saying. The Academy has made so many bone-headed decisions, especially in the past ten years. It used to be an actor would usually win an Oscar for the performance that, as it turns out, is their most famous. Like Gregory Peck winning for To Kill A Mockingbird. Or Audrey Hepburn winning for Roman Holiday. But Nicole Kidman winning for The Hours? Don?t get me wrong, it was a fine performance. But ten years from now, people will remember Nicole Kidman for Moulin Rouge.
There would also be the unintentional side-effect of the ten-year Oscar campaign, which Harvey Weinstein would probably still dominate. How many interviews could an actor or director give about a film they did ten years ago? How would the publicity even ramp up? But, as I said, I understand Matt?s sentiments. I wonder if he thinks his Oscar-winning screenplay for Good Will Hunting stands the test of time?
Here?s Matt Damon at the 68-mile Cape Argus bike trek on Sunday in South Africa. Images thanks to WENN.com.
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| | Matt Damon visits Zimbabwean refugees in South African border camp | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon is in South Africa filming The Human Factor, the story of Nelson Mandela?s rise to power. Mandela is being played by Morgan Freeman, and the film is being directed by Clint Eastwood, both of whom need an on-set doctor. According to Buzz Sugar, ?Matt Damon will play star rugby player Francois Pienaar who befriended Nelson Mandela.?
While in South Africa, Matt Damon traveled to the border town of Musina, which is now home to thousands of Zimbabwean refugees. Damon was traveling through his association with Not On Our Watch, the human rights group that funnels money to refugees of genocidal warfare and extreme economic instability in places like Sudan, Chad and Zimbabwe. Damon met with many refugees, including several women who were victims of rape and sexual assault. The Associated Press has more:
MUSINA, South Africa (AP) ? Matt Damon listened emotionally as a Zimbabwean woman described how she was raped while pregnant during a perilous journey to cross into South Africa from her troubled homeland.
The Hollywood actor was visiting refugee centers in this border town Tuesday as part of his work with Not On Our Watch, a human rights group he started with other celebrities such as Brad Pitt and George Clooney to draw attention to the world’s suffering peoples.
“I have spoken to so many people who went through so much to get to this point. It is testament to the situation across the border in Zimbabwe,” Damon told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.
An estimated 3 million Zimbabweans have fled economic collapse and dire humanitarian conditions at home, and Damon said he was “shocked and saddened” by the plight of those he spoke to. He was especially moved by the tale of the 18-year-old woman who was raped.
She said she and a friend bribed a police officer to allow them to cross the border illegally last year and then met a taxi driver who promised her a job. On her first night, the taxi driver took the woman, who was five months pregnant at the time, to a house to stay. A friend of the driver raped her there. “I screamed, no one heard me,” the young woman said, crying as a watery-eyed Damon swallowed hard.
Aid agencies have expressed concern about an increase in sexual violence against women crossing over from Zimbabwe as well as a rise in the number of unaccompanied children making the journey. Many must cross the crocodile-infested Limpopo River and enter South Africa through holes in the fence along the poorly patrolled border, often paying exorbitant fees to unscrupulous guides.
In one camp visited by Damon, about 5,000 Zimbabweans are camped on a sandy patch strewn with rubbish and personal belongings. Some have built makeshift structures out of plastic, and others sleep on pieces of cardboard. There are about a dozen toilets and only a few taps.
Damon, who patiently listened to heart-wrenching stories in the scorching heat, called the situation in Musina “untenable” and said “action has to be taken” by international and regional leaders. Damon is in South Africa making a film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman as the country’s first black president, Nelson Mandela. He said he hoped to use his “celebrity capital” to raise awareness about Zimbabwe, where a new unity government is calling for $2 billion in aid to help rebuild.
[From The Associated Press hosted by Google]
It sounds like the meetings really affected Matt. So many of these refugee ?camps? are little more than a series of tents, and funding for any kind of intensive operation to care for Zimbabwean refugees will most likely be a tough road. Damon is doing God?s work, as far I?m concerned, but I?m sure there will be those who find something to criticize.
On a more positive note, I had no idea that Matt Damon had a role in The Human Factor. I bet he?s really pleased that he gets to work with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, and I hope he enjoys himself while he?s there.
Here?s Matt Damon coming out of his downtown apartment and walking to his car in Manhattat on February 12th. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.
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| | Matt Damon photographed shirtless and with his adorable baby daughter | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These photos are a double treat in that we get to see Matt Damon without his shirt on along with what I believe is the first glimpse of his six month-old daughter, Gia Zavala. Damon, his wife Luciana and their daughters Gia, Isabella, two and a half, and Alexia (from Luciana’s first marriage) were spotted on vacation in the Caribbean on Monday. Damon was seen drinking a beer and watching his daughters play on the beach.
Damon, 38, gained from 20-30 pounds last summer for his role as a conflicted executive in the true-life drama The Informant. In order to gain weight quickly for the role, Damon said that he stopped working out, drank a lot of beer and ate burgers. He admitted that it was easier to gain weight in his late 30s than when he was in was in his 20s.
Damon had to lose weight quickly after that role as he needed to re-shoot scenes for his film The Green Zone in September. He seems to have gained some of the weight back, but he’s still super hot looking and looks great. It looks like he had a relaxing vacation with his family over Valentine’s Day weekend.
Thanks to MavrixOnline for these photos.
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| | Celebrity Quote Of The Day: Matt Damon | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Feed Me Gossip |
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“They could never make a James Bond movie like any of the Bourne films because Bond is an imperialist, misogynist sociopath who goes around bedding women and swilling martinis and killing people. He’s repulsive.” - Matt Damon
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| | Matt Damon says James Bond is an 'imperialist, misogynist sociopath' | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last September, Matt Damon caused some controversy with statements in an AP interview in which he called Vice Presidential Republican candidate Sarah Palin “absurd? like a bad Disney movie.” Many people thought that Damon was being disrespectful at the time, although after Palin’s interviews with Katie Couric and Brian Williams came out there were more that agreed with him.
Damon, 38, gave an interview to his local newspaper the Miami Herald in which he typically strongly asserted his opinion on several topics. Damon is the star of the successful Bourne franchise, and had some choice words for his competition, James Bond:
”They could never make a James Bond movie like any of the Bourne films,” Damon says scornfully. “Because Bond is an imperialist, misogynist sociopath who goes around bedding women and swilling martinis and killing people. He’s repulsive.
“Steve [Soderbergh, who produced yet another of Damon's spy movies, Syriana] told me that years ago he was offered a Bond movie. He told them he’d do it if they gave him creative control. Absolutely not, they said. They have a formula, they stick to it, and it makes them a lot of money. They know what they’re doing, and they’re going to keep doing it.”
[From The Miami Herald via The Huffington Post]
I never really thought of the differences between Bond and Bourne because they’re both high-energy entertaining action movies to me. Bourne does have more of a connection to the deaths, though, and I remember Clive Owen’s character’s death in the first film as feeling particularly human and a little sad. There’s usually some emotion and meaning attached to deaths in the Bourne films and they’re not as slick or glossed over as the Bond series. In that respect you can see how Bond could be considered a sociopath. Bond is an old franchise and in a way is still stuck in old ways of thinking despite their successful efforts to revive it. Bourne doesn’t seem to kill without reason and he had a steady girlfriend for the first two films. To many movie-goers, these films are violent action movies and you don’t really consider the morality of the protagonists, you just root for Bond and Bourne while they do what they have to do.
In that same interview, Damon also called conservative NY Times columnist William Kristol an “idiot” and seemed to say that torture was warranted when civilian lives are at stake:
Instead, the small talk — if that’s the right phrase — ranged from which New York Times columnist is the worst (conservative William Kristol, according to Damon: ”He’s an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!”) to the proper place of torture in American foreign policy.
”Look, the best line about torture I’ve heard came from [retired CIA officer turned war-on-terrorism critic] Milt Beardon,” Damon says. “He said, `If a guy knows where a dirty bomb is hidden that’s going to go off in a Marriott, put me in a room with him and I’ll find out. But don’t codify that. Just let me break the law.’
“Which I think is right. You can’t legalize torture. But anybody would do it in that situation. You’d do it to me in that situation; you’d pull out my fingernails if you thought I knew something like that.”
[From The Miami Herald]
Damon might want to temper his arguments if he doesn’t want to alienate people, but he doesn’t seem to particularly care. If this is how the guy is talking at 38, he’s sure going to be a cantankerous old dude.
Damon also told a story about how he tried to score tickets to the inauguration after campaigning for Barack Obama and was informed that bleacher seats would run him $25,000 a piece. This is similar to something Scarlett Johansson said on The Tonight Show about how she would probably have to donate $50k if she wanted to attend the inauguration.
Matt Damon is shown at the Clinton Global Initiative on 9/26/08. Credit: PRPhotos
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| | Matt Damon and George Clooney's Nobu Night | | Added 16 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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They’ve become an American cinematic mainstay thanks to the “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise, and last night George Clooney and Matt Damon were spotted hanging out in London, England.
The “Michael Clayton” actor and his “Bourne Ultimatum” pal were both seen exiting the exclusive Nobu Berkeley restaurant after enjoying some male bonding.
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