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Matt Damon , born in 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the most successful and most prominent US actor (among others “The Martians”). For “Good Will Hunting”, he won the 1998 together with his childhood friend Ben Affleck the Oscar for best screenplay. The action hero Jason Bourne plays Damon since 2002, three times under the direction of the British Paul Greengrass. The long-time supporters of the Democratic Party, his wife and four daughters in Los Angeles.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Damon, you emphasized countless times that you kept the Bourne story for all told and wanted to make no new film. How did it come about but the comeback? (Our film criticism “Jason Bourne” you can read here!)
Damon: Over the years have repeatedly harassed me fans, as Jason Bourne return. I then at some point began to ask director Paul Greengrass, if we do not want to go yet. Ultimately we came to the point that we are ashamed and overwhelmed felt by the many demands: How wonderful to have such a loyal audience is! And there is nothing wrong with wanting to entertain people. So we said: Come on, let’s do it
SPIEGEL: The Story Problem solved the not yet. Since the “Bourne Ultimatum”, her final task as Jason Bourne, nearly ten years have passed. How difficult is it to transport the figure in the present was
Damon: When we actually sat down to design the film, we were shocked at how fundamentally the world has changed. 2007 as “The Bourne Ultimatum” came out, George W. Bush was still president, the stock market crash was not yet happened. Social Media and the related companies, which are among the world’s most powerful and influential corporations, there was not yet! The Snowden revelations had not yet occurred. Smartphones were then far from being such a big part of everyday life. This entire area of conflict between privacy versus security, all offered a whole new playing field for Jason Bourne
SPIEGEL: The political content – state surveillance, CIA involvement with Internet companies, illegal. invasion of privacy – are discussed in almost every scene. Is the action ultimately only camouflage for an enlightening message
Damon: Our most important job is always only times, hinzukriegen an entertaining blockbuster. All our Bourne movies have always displayed the time in which they have played. The latest, “The Bourne Ultimatum” is basically from the war on terror. There was Waterboarding scenes, it was about the unhinging of the habeas corpus guarantee, and we let the big action sequences in London, Madrid and New York play, the cities that were affected at that time directly from terrorist attacks. We do all this never explicitly or rub it to the public under the nose, but we want to create a sense of the real world in which we live,
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Even in the new film there are scenes with political sensitivity. The opening scene takes place on the Greek-Macedonian border
Damon:. In fact, we had the exact name of the place where this fist fight sequence takes place with Bourne, subsequently change. In the then deserted border area, where we filmed last September, now storing more than 50,000 people in a refugee camp – the current events have so overtaken us. But just as we like it! Two years ago, when we started, Paul said at the beginning Bourne will hunt in Athens by a protest against EU austerity policies. He knew: In Greece, it will continue to go around. The figure to be placed again in the middle of current conflicts and events that makes us a Bourne movie
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Turbulent just might not be the time also in the USA. They are considered liberal Democrat and engage in politics outside of your films. How do you assess the current presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
Damon: We are in the US face an important decision, and that is a choice really dangerous for the world, because I firmly believe in my heart. I tell you only an anecdote: 30 years ago, led “Rolling Stone” -Herausgeber Jann Wenner an interview with Trump and wrote in the editorial that Trump had little hands. Since Wenner replaced at least once a year an envelope by mail, by Trump in which photographs of his hands are provided with the comment: These hands look but not too small! If this temperament one is remembered, at someone who might soon have the power of the US president, that’s really scary. It is the behavior of someone who is sick
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Want to become active in the campaign
Damon: Yes, I will get involved in the campaign of Hillary Clinton and stood for everything she wants from me available. Absolute. There is too much at stake. I’m very worried about my children when Trump President is
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. also distrust Clinton is large. Many Americans see them as representative of a decoupled from the People’s political establishment. Can you understand that
Damon: Of course, I understand that so similar it’s up to you in Europe. The people feel that the political system they can go the distance , That’s why they choose the radical change, no matter what the consequences could be. The Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union referendum in the UK has really alarmed me: I never expected that there could be so! That made me even more afraid regarding Trump. He speaks to the same impulses, and people are willing to listen to him. Perhaps because the system they can actually hang
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. What can you bring as a Hollywood star and public person effectively
Damon?: I have frankly no idea. I just know that it would be selfish to do nothing. It has become very difficult to talk with people about politics, let alone to dissuade her from a firmly established opinion. Nowadays we all exist in social echo chambers that prevent more and more that we listen to each other. However, we urgently need to fight
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Even Jason Bourne must fight, not only on the screen, but also to a blockbuster audience that is often too young to yet to know him. How important is the success of the film for a possible continuation
Damon: Let’s assume that all the people who have besieged me for years, again Jason Bourne to play, actually go to the movies. Maybe do it even then some. Otherwise is clear: if no one wants to see the movie, the studio will hardly want to make one more. But it would take years anyway: Paul has at least two other films that he wants to turn next, and from him it depends. I love his movies, and I love to shoot with him. As long as he is, I’m here
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. In the meantime: Did your friend Ben Affleck you been asked if you want to play in his Batman movie ?
Damon: In the one he even turns? Would I do now! Seeking my films by directors from, and he is a great filmmaker. The only problem is that. If he turns himself, he gives himself most likely the role, so we previously were not so right together
Interview with Matt Damon, we introduced in mid-July in Berlin .
Click here for the trailer for “Jason Bourne”:
“Jason Bourne”
original Title: Jason Bourne
USA 2016
director: Paul Greengrass
script: Paul Greengrass, Christopher Rouse
Cast: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed, Gregg Henry, Albert Finney
production Universal Pictures , The Kennedy / Marshall Company, Captivate Entertainment, Pearl Street Films, Double Negative
rental: Universal
length: 123 minutes
Rated: n
Start: August 11, 2016
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