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Matt Damon Sticks Foot in Mouth, Chews It Off at the Ankle

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (27)

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In an interview with GQ this month, Mr. Matt Damon — all around good guy, purveyor of Apples, and occasionally a homeless meth addict — took off his shoe, stuck his entire foot in his mouth, and gnawed it off with his molars while discussing Tony Gilroy’s screenplay draft for Bourne Ultimatum, essentially calling it garbage.

I don’t blame Tony for taking a boatload of money and handing in what he handed in. It’s just that it was unreadable. This is a career-ender. I mean, I could put this thing up on eBay and it would be game over for that dude. It’s terrible. It’s really embarrassing. He was having a go, basically, and he took his money and left.

Sure, out of context, that sounds like a real jerky thing to say about the guy who will be directing the next Bourne film, the one without Matt Damon. But pull quotes fail to take into account Matt Damon’s presence, the aura of charm and decency and awesomeness he exudes. If Katherine Heigl had said it obviously it’d be a shitty thing to say, but Matt Damon? He doesn’t throw people under the bus: He gently places them under the front wheel, kisses their foreheads, and generously releases the brake.

To be fair, Damon did follow up with an apology, writing GQ: “This is between me and him. So saying anything publicly is fucking stupid and unprofessional and just kind of douchey of me.”

Yes, yes it is. But “fucking stupid and unprofessional” is what keeps the Internet alive. So, thank you. Also, we’ll always have this, Matt:

And this:

(GQ via Videogum)









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Comments

Never seen that Letterman clip before, and it makes me love Matt Damon more than I thought was possible.

Posted by: Brenda at December 13, 2011 7:24 PM

Whatever. I like honesty from celebrities. The PR bullshit gets so tiring. And the Bourne Ultimatum story itself was pretty bad, the movie was good because of the action scenes and tight editing.

Posted by: TylerDFC at December 13, 2011 7:43 PM

Hot Damn! Poor Scotty.

Posted by: Judah at December 13, 2011 7:51 PM

Yeah if anyone else said it it would sound like a pissed off actor trashing a movie he's no longer starring in. But it's Damon so it's ok because it's not like he has a history of this. Besides how many exactly the same Bourne movies do we need? Gosh I hope there is a scene where he talks to the bad guys on the phone while he's actually close by watching them!

Posted by: logan at December 13, 2011 8:01 PM

Honestly? Good for him. Like TylerDFC said above, I find this very refreshing. You just know that dozens of celebrities are probably dying to say the exact same thing but don't because all the PR reps in the world would drive themselves off a cliff. They're getting paid so much damn money that if they phone it in like Gilroy did they deserve to get called out on it.

Posted by: beckster at December 13, 2011 8:06 PM

I thought the Bourne Ultimatum was good

Posted by: automatic365 at December 13, 2011 8:29 PM

@beckster,

"... all the PR reps in the world would drive themselves off a cliff."

I'm failing to see the downside here.

Posted by: Groundloop at December 13, 2011 8:47 PM

I would rather have all the PR reps in the world chained together at the bottom of the Mariana trench.

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Posted by: maggie at December 13, 2011 9:42 PM

So Maggie, how do you feel about Matt Damon? I'm sure he likes tall girls.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at December 13, 2011 9:48 PM

Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you...

(fuck off)

Posted by: MM at December 13, 2011 10:07 PM

Well, God damn. If something is awful, if someone has done a shitty job and is cashing in and doesn't deserve the kudos and big bucks they got just rolling out of bed, then say so.

I don't get why people are so down on celebrities saying that the people they worked with aren't perfect. The only respect I have for Shia TheBeef is because of him giving shit to the shitty shit he's been in.

I don't agree with Katherine Heigl's assessment of Knocked Up, but it's her opinion and she's entitled to it.

So do we only applaud people like Robert Pattinson for talking trash about Twilight, but not Matt Damon for his Bourne bashing?

Fuck it. If someone does a bad job, lets hear about it. Otherwise the only people who are allowed to comment on it are people who have absolutley no inside knowledge of a project like critics and film reviewers- ...Ohhhhh!

Posted by: DarthBrookes at December 13, 2011 10:07 PM

Like Brenda, I very much dig Damon's impression of McConaughey.

Though I am keen to know whether MMc does an impression of Damon that involves him looking tiny but fully capable of fucking you up - physically or verbally as you see fit.

Posted by: trib at December 13, 2011 10:11 PM

I will never, ever not love Matty Damon. Even though his McCounaghey impression lacked creepy T-rex arms.

Posted by: Az at December 13, 2011 10:50 PM

clearly he never read the script for nor watched 'Green Zone'

Posted by: jb at December 13, 2011 11:04 PM

It's true though, Matty doesn't have a history of bitterness and saying shitty things about fellow professionals, so I'm inclined to find this refreshing rather than nasty.

Though maybe time will tell...I honestly had no problem with what Katherine Heigl said about Knocked Up (because she was pretty much right), but then she followed those comments by making a string of the most reductive, "Women be crazy, huh?" crap she could get her hands on. If Damon's next role is Transformers 4, I'll rethink his comments.

Posted by: Arran at December 13, 2011 11:23 PM

@jb, Jason Isaacs's moustache in Green Zone was worth the ticket price alone.

Posted by: Steve at December 13, 2011 11:44 PM

I am confused by this. Is this all over a draft of Ultimatum that was drastically changed? Because it was actually a good movie, and even if you don't agree, certainly not bad enough to end careers and be laughed at on ebay.

Posted by: Amanda6 at December 14, 2011 12:12 AM

Tony Gilroy wrote the first draft, but there's two other credited writers on Ultimatum. What Damon is presumably saying is that Gilroy's version was a lazy piece of crap that had been quickly tossed off, and the other writers turned it into a non-pieceofcrap.

Posted by: Arran at December 14, 2011 12:39 AM

I forgot how sexy Kristin Kreuk is when she isn't playing a whiny character on small like. Thanks for reminding me.

Posted by: Dark Avenger at December 14, 2011 1:49 AM

Who's the 13-year-old Damon's fondling in the header pic?

Posted by: , at December 14, 2011 3:52 AM

I don't know, but she's hot, right?

Posted by: period at December 14, 2011 8:02 AM

And the Bourne Ultimatum story itself was pretty bad, the movie was good because of the action scenes and tight editing.

Seconded. The direction was as good as it could be, but I actually cringed in my seat at how bad some of the dialogue was in that movie.

Posted by: Todd at December 14, 2011 9:36 AM

What does he care? The little hotness in the header pic there is literally smearing herself all over him .

Posted by: Meander at December 14, 2011 9:58 AM

Header pic's from EuroTrip. Damon's just a cameo (I don't even think he's credited) but his part is AWESOME. Pretty funny movie if you like that kind of thing. Plus Sharp Shooter Tim from Justified is in it!

Posted by: Laura at December 14, 2011 10:11 AM

I never had a problem with Heigl, and candor from celebrities is appreciated by me, if not by their coworkers.

Everybody talks shit about people they work with. It's just that nobody gives a fuck what I think about some of the dipshits I've worked with.

They do care what Matt Damon thinks. If he was a CPA griping about another CPA, nobody would care. But he's a movie star, so they do care. Even though they really shouldn't.

Damon's statement is just an opinion. We don't need to carve it into stone. If he went off on some racist or sexist rant, I'd see the problem, but this ... meh.

Posted by: Slash at December 14, 2011 10:56 AM

Kristin Kreuk in that scene is the sexy equivalent of the hilariousness of Annie's boobs hitting Chang over the head repeatedly. If you are Community illiterate (wtf are you doing if you are, thanks a lot asshole, quit watching shitty tv and watch Community when it comes back), that means she is the hottest thing ever.

Posted by: Dave at December 14, 2011 1:56 PM