Matt Damon’s journey to the Gone Lady set sounds fairly traumatic

You’d be forgiven for considering that visiting a David Fincher set is all the time a privilege, however Matt Damon had a lower than joyful expertise. Again in 2013, Matt Damon acquired the possibility to go to the Gone Lady set and witness the most effective administrators on the planet in motion. It appears like we loved watching the most effective thriller films much more than he did, to be sincere.

Damon defined on The Invoice Simmons Podcast that he paid a go to to his good buddy Ben Affleck whereas he made one in every of his finest films and was capable of see Fincher’s infamous perfectionism in the flesh. He stated he was sat behind Fincher as he ready to shoot a scene wherein Affleck and co-star Rosamund Pike walked down the aisle of a bookstore earlier than sharing a kiss.

“It’s like a 90-second shot. Fincher’s acquired this massive monitor in entrance of him the place all the things is precisely because it’s going to look within the film and he’s sitting there. I’m behind him and I’ve acquired headphones on so I can hear the scene,” stated Damon.

He stated {that a} background artist walked throughout the shot when Fincher known as motion and the director was so unhappy that it derailed your complete scene earlier than it actually started.

Damon stated: “Ben and Rosamund enter the bookstore and the scene’s about to begin, however Fincher is already monologuing. He’s going: ‘Who the fuck walks like that?’ It was the background artist. It simply immediately caught his eye, like: ‘What the fuck was that? Who the fuck walks like that? No one walks like that’.

“Now Ben and Rosamund are on the opposite aspect of this bookstore they usually’re doing the scene, however Fincher’s nonetheless speaking about this and I’m sitting there going: ‘they’re positively gonna do the scene once more, this take is totally shot’. They get by way of the entire scene they usually’re performing their hearts out and it’s nice, but it surely doesn’t matter. The scene ended earlier than it started.”

Damon stated that Fincher was proper to choose up on the background artist’s less-than-natural stroll, however the second “ruined the entire thing for him” in a approach it wouldn’t have performed for much less of a perfectionist.

We are able to solely think about how awkward it will be for Damon to look at two of one of the best actors round working their approach by way of a scene, solely to search out that their director has already written off the take. Brutal.

For extra on the shut Affleck-Damon bond, take a look at our lists of one of the best Ben Affleck films and one of the best Matt Damon films. You may also discover out about how Affleck and Damon hid a blow job within the Good Will Looking script. For Damon’s newest, you’ll be able to learn our Oppenheimer evaluate.

And look forward to the long run as we spherical up the brand new films coming this 12 months, together with the Killers of the Flower Moon launch date and The Equalizer 3 launch date.