Matt Damon recollects Clint Eastwood’s blunt ‘Invictus’ set response

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Matt Damon remembered being put in his place by certainly one of Hollywood's best as he reminisced on his decades-long profession.

Throughout an look on the "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" podcast, the Oscar-winner revealed that Clint Eastwood had a number of selection phrases for the actor whereas they labored collectively on the 2009 docudrama "Invictus."

Whereas working down the checklist of administrators Damon labored with, O'Brien admitted he could not get a way of Eastwood's type.

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Clint Eastwood directed Matt Damon within the 2009 flick "Invictus." (Dave Hogan)

"I labored with him twice, and the f irst time was ‘Invictus,’" Damon recalled. "So I used to be taking part in a South African rugby participant, and that is a extremely powerful accent to do."

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Damon spent six months working with a dialect coach to grasp the accent, with little curiosity from his director.

"It was an extended … it was quite a lot of work," Damon stated. "And I confirmed up and, and I am, I am prepared. It is like my probability to work with, you realize, certainly one of my heroes."

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Damon continued, "The very first take, I did it. And in the meantime, I've achieved this so many 1000's of instances. I've various completely different ways in which I am considering of perhaps doing the scene. So he goes, ‘Minimize, print, transfer on.’

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"I am going, I am going, 'Cling on, hold on, hold on, boss. I wish to, you realize, I wish to do one other one. I imply, I wasn't even in costume.' You realize, that was like, that was the primary one.

Damon remembered that Eastwood shortly responded, "He goes, 'Why you wanna waste everybody's time ?'"

"I went, ‘No, I suppose we're transferring on."

Matt Damon labored with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman in ‘Invictus.’ (Dave Hogan)

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Whereas Eastwood's phrases might have appeared off-putting, the "Bourne Identity" actor insisted there was a "kindness" to his message.

"He's a stunning man. What was actually attention-grabbing is the second film I did with him, there was this … it builds to a head with this, a scene with me and this 9-year-old child," Damon stated. "The 9-year-old child was a non-actor, and we had achieved one take for everyone, all by way of ‘Invictus.'

"We will need to have achieved 40 takes with this little boy … we had been attempting to get this; it was this type of enormous second within the movie, and we had been attempting to get these things out of him. Clint was proper subsequent to me … like, we had been proper subsequent to the digital camera collectively simply working with this boy."

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck earned an Academy Award for "Good Will Searching" in 1998. (Getty Photos)

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He added, "His entire mentality was … your crew will go to the ends of the earth for you if so long as you are not taxing them on each shot. When we have to get in there, we get in there. However for probably the most half we are able to … skilled actors are gonna present up with one thing good. We hold the momentum."