Matt Damon ‘fell into melancholy’ on ‘shedding effort’ film set

Movie stars like Matt Damon often all undergo the highs of an enormous hit and the lows of a field workplace bomb in some unspecified time in the future of their careers.

Yet generally the star admits he is aware of which manner it’s going even when midway by way of the shoot.

Speaking with Jake’s Takes to advertise Oppenheimer, the 52-year-old confessed: “Sometimes you find yourself in a movie that you know, perhaps, might not be what you had hoped it would be, and you’re still making it. 

“And I remember halfway through production and you’ve still got months to go and you’ve taken your family somewhere, you know, and you’ve inconvenienced them.

“And I remember my wife pulling me up because I fell into a depression about like, what have I done?”

Damon continued: “She just said, ‘We’re here now’. You know, and it was like…I do pride myself, in a large part because of her, at being a professional actor and what being a professional actor means is you go and you do the 15-hour day and give it absolutely everything, even in what you know is going to be a losing effort. 

“And if you can do that with the best possible attitude, then you’re a pro, and she really helped me with that.”

He could not have named the film that made him fall right into a melancholy, however as identified by Variety, the star has spoken brazenly about engaged on blockbusters he knew would bomb like The Great Wall.

The 2016 American-Chinese co-produced monster film suffered losses as excessive as $75 million.

Speaking on WTF with Marc Maron in 2021 about capturing The Great Wall, Damon admitted: “It doesn’t cohere. It doesn’t work as a movie… I came to consider that the definition of a professional actor; knowing you’re in a turkey and going, ‘OK, I’ve got four more months. It’s the up-at-dawn siege on Hamburger Hill. I am definitely going to die here, but I’m doing it.’ That’s as sh***y as you can feel creatively, I think. I hope to never have that feeling again.”