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Matt Damon has finally spoken about his brilliant cameo in Team America: World Police. Did he think it was as brilliant as everyone else did? I mean, playing a parody of yourself, who's only able to say his own name, isn't going to be great for any actor's ego, is it?
Don't get me wrong, I loved it. It's without a doubt my favourite celebrity cameo, closely followed by Liam Neeson in Ted 2. But I've always wondered what he thought of it, and it seems I'm not the only one, because when he took part in a Reddit AMA yesterday and someone asked him how he felt about his involvement in the film.
Matt replied:
I was always kind of bewildered by Team America, I think because it's hard for us to understand what our images are in public, I think we're not good judges of that, and when I saw myself on screen just only able to say my own name and not really that well, I kind of wondered "Wow, is that how people perceive me?" At that point I just kind of was like, I'm a screenwriter and an actor, and like really? I can barely say my own name? So I was always bewildered by that, and I never talked to Trey and Matt about that. And incidentally, I believe those two are geniuses, and I don't use that word lightly. I think they are absolute geniuses, and what they've done is awesome and I'm a big fan of theirs, but I never quite understood that one. But I will say this. Those of us who were parodied in that video were parodied because we were against the Iraq war, and we went on the record against that war, and so history is on my side not theirs."
So now you know. I feel like he added that bit about the Iraq war at the end, so people know he's not like the puppet in real life...we get it, Matt.
Words Claire Reid
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