Matt Damon Says ‘Stillwater’ Role Was ‘Eye Opening’ About MAGA Country: ‘These People Were Wonderful to Us and Really Helped Us’

Breitbart ^ | 07/09/2021 | David NG

[ChicagoConservative27]

While many Hollywood elites work overtime to demonize Trump supporters, actor Matt Damon discovered that MAGA country didn’t conform to his preconceived notions during his research for his new movie Stillwater.

Matt Damon said he researched his role of an Oklahoma oil rig worker by visiting the state and hanging out with real-life “roughnecks.”

“These guys don’t apologize for who they are or what they believe, ever,” Damon said during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday.

“Culturally, [it’s] a very specific place and very different from how he [director Tom McCarthy] and I grew up. So it was really facinating. These people were wonderful to us and really helped us. I didn’t know when I first read the script how specific this culture was in Texas and Oklahoma, these roughnecks and what they do. And so it was really eye-opening for me.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

Matt will be cancelled. Can't have this.

[FlipWilson]

Poor bastard, he will now be sent to Mars to grow poop potatoes.

[joshua c]

walk back in 3 2 1

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Sorry to hear about the upcoming cancellation, Matt.

[libh8er]

It could be a clever way of marketing to the Red states - sing their praises. Which is more than what most Hollywood producers do.

[SMARTY]

If he doesn’t back pedal on the statements, that’s a good think and almost incredible considering HOW out of touch his background and former statements are.

[Billthedrill]

Every time I suspect that I make too much of the cultural divide in this country something like this pops up and I realize that it's very real and its victims don't even know it. Damon is smart enough to know better and clearly he doesn't.

OTOH, he does have a movie to flog, so there's that.

[mewzilla]

Damon can suck up all he wants.

Still not buyin’...

[Salamander]

Meanwhile, “my people” have “Deliverance”.

/hey...do you hear banjos??

[TexasM1A]

Matt Damon is playing an Oil Rig Roughneck?
What a joke that is, that guy wouldn’t survive a week doing that work, and I don’t care how “enlightened” he may have become hanging out with those people, he and his movie will portray them as ignorant idiots one way or the other.

[okkev68]

cue Team America

[Zathras]

I helped a conservative friend drive from OR across the country.
She was SHOCKED at how different America was than CA-OR_WA.
This is because the media controls the local message.
“All politics is local” is very real.

[NohSpinZone]

[Rummyfan]

Geez Matt, maybe you should get out of Cambridge, Mass, and the LA area more often.

[Rummyfan]

It could be a clever way of marketing to the Red states - sing their praises.

I think so. Not that he needs the money but he's riding a string of flops since The Martian.

Although I have to say he really surprised me playing Carroll Shelby in Ford vs. Ferrari.

[Rummyfan]

“These guys don’t apologize for who they are or what they believe, ever,” Damon said during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday.

People who dont apologize for who they are and what they do. Shocking!

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Can't think of who it was, but there was a famous leftist journalist who wrote something similar a while back, saying that the Trump supporters/conservatives they (can't remember if male or female) met were much different than how they had been stereotyped.

Less a comment on the journalist than about how a biased media manages to shape opinions so divorced from reality.

[rktman]

Sad to say most “elites”(they think they are) have ZERO clue about folks in fly over country. Clue-less. Thanks Matt.

[proust]

This only happens when the movie industry is circling the drain. He;s long past his peak, expect him to pivot to a role in politics ala Matthew McConahey.

[jughandle]

Well he is aging, a revelation could very well be possible. Or could be getting a leg-up on the inevitable death of Hollywood.