DID
YOU KNOW?
Matt Damon played in $10,000 buyin Texas Hold 'Em tournament
at the 1998 World Series of
Poker in Las Vegas and lost during first day of tour.
DID YOU KNOW?
He dropped 40 pounds for his role as a Gulf War vet in Courage
Under Fire.
DID YOU KNOW?
To perfect his Southern accent to play the part of Rudy Baylor
in The Rainmaker, he bartended in Knoxville, Tennessee for
free. Later he hired one of the customers to serve as his
dialect coach.
DID YOU KNOW?
His parents divorced when he was two and he spent part of
his childhood in a commune in Boston with his mother, a specialist
in child education.
DID YOU KNOW?
He auditioned for a role in To Die For, Joaquin Phoenix later
got that role.
DID YOU KNOW?
Both he and Ben Affleck worked as extras on the film Field
of Dreams. At one point during the shoot, Matt hopped on down
to Boston's Fenway Park to take some blades of grass as mementos
for his father.
DID YOU KNOW?
He turned down the lead role in The Majestic and he also turned
down the lead role in The Quick and the Dead. Leonardo DiCaprio
ended up with the role.
DID YOU KNOW?
He turned down the lead role in The Majestic
DID YOU KNOW?
Dropped out of Harvard 12 credits short of graduating to pursue
his acting career.
DID YOU KNOW?
Was named as one of E!'s "25 Most Eligible Bachelors"
in June, 2002.
DID YOU KNOW?
He started a bowling league in Berlin while making The Bourne
Supremacy.
DID YOU KNOW?
He is the real-life best friend of Ben Affleck. Each has starred
together or had cameos in some of the other's films.
DID YOU KNOW?
Has starred in 7 movies where the title contains some part
of his character's name in that movie: Good Will Hunting,
Saving Private Ryan, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Gerry, Spirit:
Stallion of the Cimarron, The Bourne Identity, and The Bourne
Supremacy. One more movie in this style - The Brothers Grimm
- is still to be released.
DID YOU KNOW?
While promoting The Bourne Supremacy on The Tonight Show with
Jay Leno, he revealed that when he was a college freshman
his agent from a "ma and pa agency" inadvertently
sent him and Ben Affleck to an audition for "The Mickey
Mouse Club." They were under the impression that they
were going to meet the head of Touchstone Pictures.
DID YOU KNOW?
Quit smoking through visiting a hypnotist in L.A.
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