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“I wouldn’t have made this movie with the directors who normally make this kind of movie,” grins Damon, looking every inch the American everyman in T-shirt and jeans. Hardly a safe choice to adapt Robert Ludlum’s bazillion-selling espionage novel, The Bourne Identity, but that’s the point. Damon’s new movie pairs him with Doug Liman, the indie-king New Yorker behind Swingers and Go, on the director’s first big-budget studio movie. So, with Vance and Horses face-falling flops, what’s his latest headlining gig? A fail-safe blockbuster? A mainstream crowdpleaser sure to spring him back up the Hollywood power list? You can see where we’re going with the rhetoric. The result: a bone fide movie star, but one with an intriguing, indie sensibility. Damon’s parents split when he was two and he was raised in a six-family commune with his mother, a professor of child development (her antipathy for conventional toys meant Damon’s play relied heavily on his imagination), and his older brother Kyle, now an artist. In a conversation laced with wit and profanity, what’s shocking is his frankness – perhaps a by-product of his unconventional upbringing. There’s no publicist-aided, celeb bullshit here. They got abandoned.”Įvidently, Matt Damon speaks his mind. What ends up happening is you get these people saying these saccharine things, you get a violin swell and it ends up looking like the actors aren’t pulling their weight. They were told: ‘This event is the loss of innocence for your country, so you really have to invest it with this wide-eyed hopefulness.’ Yet I felt the movie ended up being edited, by Bay, with some kind of MTV, year 2000 cynicism, which undercut the performances. “Ben kind of jumped off a cliff doing that,” says Damon. Particularly given the experience of his long-time best friend, Ben Affleck, on Pearl Harbor. Bay, it’s fair to say, won’t be joining Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Kevin Smith on Damon’s list of collaborators.