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Steven Soderbergh: Not Everyone’s Gonna Be Into “Jason Bourne On Top Of Gordon Gekko”

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[Matt Damon] was in Spain doing his cameo in Che, and I gave him the book. I can only imagine what was going through his mind five years later before we started shooting. But Matt doesn’t have anything to protect. That’s not how he makes his decisions. He makes his decisions based on whether he’s engaged by the piece or not. If it turns out to be something that’s really gonna push him as a performer, even better. And Michael, he was just fearless. They both are. The movie just doesn’t work if they don’t both literally join hands and jump off the cliff. It’s intimate stuff, even if it was a guy and a girl. But for a lot of people it’ll be hard to see Jason Bourne on top of Gordon Gekko.”

— Behind the Candelabra director Steven Soderbergh reflecting on Matt Damon’s Bourne identity and the film’s marriage equality message at the Cannes Film Festival, via The Hollywood Reporter.

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