Matt Damon was paid millions of dollars for saying only 25 lines in Jason Bourne.
One of the biggest challenges for many actors is memorizing pages upon pages of dialogue for a TV show or movie. Luckily for Matt Damon that wasn’t a problem as he only had 25 lines of dialogue.
This news comes after an interview in The Guardian where it was revealed producers thought Matt Damon’s character has evolved into a person who does little talking. Here’s Damon himself on the decision make the character a man of very few words:
Well, I’ve done it three times. In the first movie, the Marie Kreutz character is still alive, so Bourne has a sounding board and he’s more confused about who he is and a lot more chatty. Once she dies in the first act of the second movie, it’s really a very lonely character. And we talked about that mostly on the second one. I remember [screenwriter] Tony [Gilroy] writing me an email saying, ‘You do realize what this means? You do realize you’re not going to talk in this movie.’ I said, ‘No, I love that.’”
This is not the first time an action movie star had little to no lines. Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $15 million to star in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a movie where he only speaks 700 worlds in 137 minutes. That’s roughly $21,429 per word. In addition, Henry Cavill‘s Superman only had 43 lines of dialogue in the entire movie.
Via The Guardian
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