Matt Damon on Graham Norton: ‘Shooting Jason Bourne films is much harder now I’m 45’

The star of The Martian talks Oscars, Ridley Scott, and the new Bourne film
Star-studded: Graham Norton returns with Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Bill Bailey, and The Weeknd
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Ben Travis25 September 2015

Graham Norton is back for another series of celebrity interviews as the Graham Norton Show returns to BBC One.

On the red sofa this week was acting megastar Matt Damon, who spoke about his return to the Jason Bourne series. Damon is currently shooting the fifth film in the gritty spy saga, his first Bourne film since 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum.

Speaking of his preparations for the action sequences, Damon said: “Now I am 45 it is much, much harder. I was 30 when I made the first film and this is a whole different thing. The fight scenes are more like dancing and I am the weakest dance partner.”

Damon appeared on the show to promote Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi film The Martian, which sees his character, astronaut Mark Watney, stranded alone on Mars for the majority of the run time.

“It was a challenge [to act alone] although I did have to discuss everything with Ridley [Scott],” he said. “That was the reason to do it and I’ve never done anything like it before.”

The actor also spoke about his early Oscar win for Good Will Hunting.

“I’m glad we won it when we did,” Damon admitted. “Can you imagine what it would be like to chase it and not get it until you were in your eighties or nineties with all your life behind you only to realise it was a waste of time? If it’s a hole you have, that award won’t fill it.”

The Graham Norton Show: Stars and guests 2015

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Also on the show was Jessica Chastain, who spoke about the time she stumbled upon Embarrassing Bodies on the TV (“there were things I couldn’t even have imagined”), Bill Bailey, who told a story about trying to save a stray goose outside Buckingham Palace, and The Weeknd, who performed his hit single I Can’t Feel My Face.

BBC One, 10.35pm

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