Well-known actor, Matt Damon admitted that he “fell into depression” once he was disappointed with a project.
While promoting Oppenheimer Damon had a recent appearance on the YouTube series Jake Tex, and there he look back at the difficult time while shooting a film when things didn’t work out the way he expected when.
“Without naming any particular movies … sometimes you find yourself in a movie that you know, perhaps, might not be what you had hoped it would be, and you’re still making it,” he said.
“And I remember halfway through production and you’ve still got months to go and you’ve taken your family somewhere, you know, and you’ve inconvenienced them,”
“And I remember my wife pulling me up because I fell into a depression about like, what have I done? Matt explained.
“She just said, ‘We’re here now.’…I do pride myself, in a large part because of her, on being a professional actor and what being a professional actor means is you go and you do the 15-hour day and give it absolutely everything, even in what you know is going to be a losing effort,” he continued.
“And if you can do that with the best possible attitude, then you’re a pro, and she really helped me with that.”
Although he didn’t specify which film didn’t live up to his expectations,
Matt Damon told everything but did not tell in which film this happened to him, he kept the name of the film secret.
Matt Damon’s difficulties while filming 2016 The Great Wall
Once the actor talked about his difficulties filming the 2016 The Great Wall, which came under the direction of Zhang Yimou and shot in New Zealand.
“I came to consider that the definition of a professional actor; knowing you’re in a turkey and going, ‘OK, I’ve got four more months. It’s the up at dawn siege on Hamburger Hill.”
“I am definitely going to die here, but I’m doing it.’ That’s as s****y as you can feel creatively, I think. I hope to never have that feeling again.” Matt Damon told Marc Maron’s WTF podcast in 2021.
Matt Damon stars as a European mercenary who is forced to team up with the Imperial Chinese Army to fend off an alien threat.
Despite a production budget of $150 million, the film was released in the U.S. but failed to cross the $50 million mark.