22 years after The Bourne Identity, Matt Damon reflects on a "radically different" experience working with director Doug Liman on new movie The Instigators
Aug. 7, 2024Exclusive: Matt Damon compares working with Doug Liman on The Instigators over two decades after The Bourne Identity
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Upcoming thriller action flickThe Instigatorsmarks not only Matt Damon’s return to the genre but his reunion with director Doug Liman 22 years after the release of The Bourne Identity, which star Damon says was a radically different experience to the new movie.
“Thankfully, we’re both 20 years older and more experienced,” says Damon, speaking to GamesRadar+ and the Inside Total Film podcast. “But yeah, the first time I worked with him, it was pretty fraught, and the word on the street in Hollywood was that it was a bomb because our release date got pushed and all this stuff, and so we all thought we were in trouble.”
The new movie doesn’t just include a reunion between Damon and Liman, but also between Damon andDownsizingstar Hong Chau, and of course Damon and his long-term friend and acting buddy Casey Affleck. “Yeah. I mean that I love this job so much, and the only thing better than doing it is doing it with people that I care about and really admire. And so any chance I get to do that, I’ll do it,” says Damon.
The Instigators stars Damon and Affleck as unlikely partners thrown together for a heist, only for it to go awry and attract the attention of police, bureaucrats, and a mafia boss. The cast also includes Hong Chau, Jack Harlow, Paul Walter Hauser, and Ron Perlman.
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