Matt Damon Sweats From His Scalp While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

two dishes are good, I just drooled, oh my god, what is happening to my body, hey, what is happening to everyone at the first week banquet? I'm Shawn Evans and you're watching the hot

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, it's the show with burning questions and even spicier

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and today we're joined by Matt Damon, he's an Academy Award-winning actor and has been in some of the most iconic movies in recent years. 25 years, from Goodwill Hunting to Saving Private Ryan to the Bourne film series and many more. The last thought of him is the crime directed by Tom McCarthy. drama stillwater premiering july 30

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welcome to the show thank you sean I appreciate it I know you're a great cholula guy what's going on in your brain right now as you prepare for the

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gauntlet today I made the mistake of I probably saw Many of my colleagues do this, so I think I went from being quite optimistic about it to being pretty.

There is a humble man sitting in front of you. My kids really wanted me to do this. also, which I know is a thing that a lot of people say that, but in my case it was also true, so they want to see, they want to see the flop sweat, so let's put on a show, okay, it's fantastic, so there's a store. in williamsburg that sells all this yeah shout out heatonnessteetness.com.com.com okay well classic hot sauce is fantastic so far very good so your latest movie Stillwater recently came out to a standing ovation five minutes long on Khan and her.

He plays an Oklahoma oilman. What was it like taking a road trip to the old state,

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at places like Rey's Barbecue, and then becoming friends with real-life oilman Kenny Baker? How did that help you and Tom McCarthy shape the story? Wow, did you know about Ray's Barbecue. my place was fantastic um that was really the key to everything that was happening there and I love this script and I read it and I loved the dynamic between all the characters and I totally believed it but the specificity of it is a tough neck and what a tough neck was absolutely key to cr

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this character, so i and i didn't know that everyone actually called the character bill baker as a kind of homage to kenny because his last name is baker kenny took us and went to these the oil rigs the way he walks the way he stands the goatee and the wraparound glasses all those specific details come from our time there and I think you know they welcomed us, the thugs greeted us with an understandable wariness like Hollywood Yeah, Yes, what are you doing?

What are your intentions? You know what I mean. Are you here to make fun of us? What are you really doing? But once they realized it, you knew the script had all this compassion and empathy for this character. about this guy and um and that we were trying to get it right, they were incredible, they just gave us incredible access and the movie is what it is and that performance is what it is and I'm very proud of it, but it's because it comes from those guys oh that's delicious I would definitely have both in my house that's great so I'm from Illinois and my mom actually worked for the antitrust division of the US government and I actually remember her working at Mark Whitaker. case in which I filmed the informant out of my own personal curiosity, what attracted you to that story in that project, well, steven soderbergh asked me and, incidentally, asked me to do it at a time in my career when it seemed that I was going that way.

The porn identity hadn't come out um, it had a lot of bombs. Steven called me and I remember him telling me about it and I didn't realize he was offering me to star in it because no one had offered me a job in a long time. and I said, you mean do you want me to write this because I'm a writer too? No, no, I want you to write it. Scott Burns is going to write it. I want you to star in it like I can't believe it. Anyway, we sat down. I was on it for several years until the time came and we filmed it in 2008 and it's one of my favorite things I've ever done and that case was just incredible so I'm proud of the movie we made,

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just a drop of hot sauce well and this one is already dipped, okay, that's fantastic, it's delicious, big pepper, but very good, sorry, I have to eat, I have to eat all the wings. because I saw bill bird do that boston thing, boston strong, yes, he did it very well, so the green light project offers a fascinating insight into the chaos that goes into making a movie, at what stage of the filmmaking process there is a lot that goes into game. a solid script is the most essential component to making a good movie or the sink or swim moment happens later, well it can be both ways, you can have a solid script and you can adjust it as you go along and um, I mean.

The hecticest and highest pressure is in production because it's like when you're setting money on fire. You know you have everyone out there. You are somewhere. It's really expensive pre-production. You can press the pump. brakes a little you can slow down there you can work like a normal person work hours that have a little more than I thought how would you explain in simple terms the internal calculation that happens in a studio when they are deciding? whether or not to finance a film, whether or not it is worth betting, yes, well, that is the key word is betting, because it is always a bet, there is always a risk, they try to mitigate the risk by putting someone they believe in. is it bankable in quotes, bankable in the kind of internal baseball is that they have a list from what I understand, I don't know it's like they get together like the heads of the five families and the godfather and talk about it um or is there something secret list , but it seems like you don't know if you're on the list or not, you just know based on the number of offers you get, like it's not on the list at the moment and I think you know it's like in the Premier League, where They go down and up and come and go, but it seems like if you're on the list in one place, you're on the list in all of them. five and you do this through a flavor profile or an actual heat profile.

I guess you have the habanero measure on the side, yes, so it's going to increase, everything will continue to increase, but that's a good question because we try to mix the sauces because physiologically you will react differently to different peppers, so it's delicious, Maybe you have a pepper that turns your lips on fire, scratches your throat, or makes you sweat a little on the back of your neck, so we give it a try. mix them up so it's like they're full only the walls are getting closer to you the enjoyment yeah you got it there are three totally different things these wings can do to you this is cool so I heard you say you take every job based on the director and it seems that the philosophy that guides you has served you well having worked with nine different filmmakers throughout your career, all of whom won an Oscar for best picture.

Clint Eastwood is known for always going with the first take. It was that experience as an actor on the set of Invictus, well it was a little scary because I was playing with South Africans and that's a very difficult accent to do if you think about what our language does with an American accent, it's like the polar opposite. in an accident in South Africa, so it's like you say I'll be right back and you think about what your tongue says, I'll bite your oven and it's like what just happened, it was very difficult, it's something that just required. a lot of practice and I've treated it like it's a job and I tested that theory on the first day of shooting, we did the first take, it came out pretty good, but Clint says cut, print, check the door, which means you know we're.

Done here, let's move on and I said, Hey boss, you know, you might think we have one more and he just turned around and said, Why do you want to waste everyone's time? Okay, okay, we're done, okay, let's move. so i'm glad i put in all that work because i really don't think it had more than one take and then you had the distinction of working with francis ford coppola on the movie the rainmaker, what are some of the unique things that Did you see different tactics done to elevate a scene? I read something interesting about him putting rocks in your shoes.

Yeah, yeah, that was a scene I was supposed to feel uncomfortable in. I was walking into a meeting and then the guy The setup is a long conference table and there's like 15 very powerful lawyers led by Jon Voight on the other side, you know these formidable people with this incredibly formidable guy in the middle of them, and I'm little Rudy Baylor, you know? alone across the conference table and I walked into the room, Francis, uh, he put rocks in my shoes and then told me to walk normally, you just want to feel uncomfortable and try to act as comfortable as you can because No.

I don't want them to see how uncomfortable you are, so things like that, okay, Matt, are you ready to move on? You're doing great, thank you. This is the red-headed goat here in fifth place. The red-haired goat. The original shine. Hot chocolate Brady, that's interesting, I like it, it's got a little bit of pineapple in it, sometimes they like some kind of fruit, that's good, okay, Matt, we've gone over a segment on our show called "Explain That Gram," We will do a deep analysis. Dive into our guest Instagram, pull out interesting images that need more context, of course you don't have Instagram, you might be surprised to know this.

You still have a lot of images on the Internet, so what we will do is post the image. On the monitor you simply tell us the broader story and an exclusively sports topic. I love it when we can do it. We have an exclusively sports theme for Matt Damon. So let's look at the first image. Do you have a lasting memory of sitting courtside at Staples Center? For the fifth game of the 08 finals between the Celtics and the Lakers, I have a great memory of that game. These seats are next to the Lakers bench, so we literally sit there and you know the guys that work for the Lakers are looking to go with you.

I have to be joking like they give it to you guys like that like that like that like that like that you know I'm going to talk to Patrick they were they were joking about it but in this game we were down like 21 points It was kind of amazing and sure enough these guys came back all the time and it culminated with Paul Pierce, really, driving down the lane like he was putting the ball and he hits the glass and when he hits the glass he hasn't done it. he even went through the hoop, phil jackson called a timeout to try to stop the bleeding and me and wahlberg went completely crazy, we jumped and we were like 15 feet from phil jackson and phil jackson turns around and points at us and he leaves.

Shut up and shut up and I thought and I thought we came into the Celtics-Lakers rivalry as supporting players, but also Phil, you know he's known for being so zen, yeah, not at that time, no, I'm serious. it was probably one of the worst moments of his professional career it was like oh it was like god not this again but yeah man it was like you know it was fun it was a moment in Stillwater where you went to a game . at the velodrome and I have seen you in formula one events I have seen you in rugby matches what for you is the most memorable sporting event that you have seen internationally a great question the way in which people in Europe encourage football is It is Incredible, it's what any American who travels abroad likes and has the opportunity to simply buy tickets and enter a stadium.

It's really very fun. It is worth seeing the craziest thing I have ever seen in my life, without a doubt, it is a soccer match in Argentina. My wife is from Argentina. We went to spend Christmas there about 11 or 12 years ago. Her family's team, Boca Juniors, which is a very popular team in Buenos Aires, is in this final and I tell my uncle. Well, to her uncle. Know? Can? come on, we can go to this game and he gets a very serious look on his face and says we can go, we can go, he says in spanish, we can go, he goes, there are no women or children.

I was like what I thought. You know I was. I was going to take the kids and we were going to go to the game, yeah, well, I saw why when we went, because we had to go through, I think three police barricades, there were temporary fences with barbed wire, I mean, it was absolutely crazy and police in riot gear outside and yes this is the field, people were sitting here and people were sitting here like in the two end z

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, what would be the end zones of our football, and there was no one sitting in the best seats. right, because that was the distance that people could throw things and hit each other, our team won, the other team's fans are leaving and the trophy presentation ends and I tell Hector, I tell him: "we should go" and he says "no, not yet." Still, it was because they needed time to get out of the neighborhood where the stadium was and they had to be given a 45 minute head start and then when they let us out, they kept us in these kind of temporary cages.

Like, what are we waiting for now? and they say they still need five more minutes to clear the neighborhood. I mean, it was absolutelycrazy, definitely the craziest sporting event I've ever been to. throat a little eh, it's starting, it's starting here, yeah, okay, that's it, wow, so I think a scenario that a lot of viewers can relate to is sitting on the couch on a Friday night. passing by the streaming services, going through the movies and thinking to themselves that they're not making movies anymore for me, as someone who's been intimately involved in movie making for 30 years, what are the macro Hollywood conditions behind that? feeling?

Well, then what happened was, um, DVD was a big part of our business of our revenue stream and technology has made it obsolete, so the movies that we used to make could afford not to make all their money. when they were shown in the cinema because they knew him. you had the DVD behind the release and six months later you'd get everything you know somewhere else, it would be almost like reopening the movie and when that went away that changed the type of movies we could make. I made this film behind. the chandelier when I spoke to a studio executive who explained to me that it was a $25 million movie.

I would have to invest that amount in print advertising to market it, but we call it pna, so I would have to put that in pna, so now In 50 million dollars I have to divide everything I get with the exhibitor and the people who own the theaters movie, so I would have to make a hundred million dollars before I make a profit and the idea of ​​making a hundred million dollars on a story about this love story between these two people, yeah, I love everyone in the movie, but that's suddenly a huge gamble in a way that it wasn't in the 1990s, when they were making all those kinds of movies, the kind of movies. that I loved and the kind of movies that were my bread and butter, by the way, they were all great these first six, so I'm starting to not be able to feel my mouth too much, yeah, okay, I feel like I'm going down about two pounds, I'm going to hit my catch weight, that's hot man, but having said it's delicious, it's actually very good, there are some redeeming culinary qualities in that one, I'd buy all seven, I'd really go for that one. one is sexy, yeah, yeah, so when we had David Arbor on the show earlier this season, he said, "I love that guy for the drama to translate on camera that something real has to happen between the actors." Yes, is it true that Steven Spielberg deliberately excluded you from the military? train instead of saving private ryan to create some real resentment between you and the rest of the cast that's totally true um I was such a young and diligent actor I was ready to go to boot camp and he said no , he goes, you can train anywhere however you want, but I'm separating you from the other guys, they really did, they were totally resentful every time they mentioned training camp because I think it rained the whole time, I think they had a tough few days, There is a rumor on the Internet. reddit that if you watch the famous Goodwill Hunting Idiosyncrasies scene, you can actually see a subtle wobble up and down because the camera operator was laughing uncontrollably along with you and Robin Williams confirms or denies that, I don't know, we could check it.

I wouldn't be surprised if Robin made everyone laugh, I mean, uncontrollably, and when he saw people's energy flagging, he would just launch into 10 minutes of stand-up, he was the greatest comedian and actor in the world and that. level of I don't know leadership something like attention and love coming from him it was like well you know, everyone was ready to work for another 12 hours, I mean he was just an incredible fact or fiction that you refused to participate in. the bourne conspiracy video game because you wanted a game that was more like lost, yeah, yeah, wow, that's, uh, no, I just didn't want to make some kind of first-person shooter like it offered me a lot of money, but it was like you could do it more, I don't know, I had to think about it a little more or you know, I got lost, I loved that game, so I was like, you know more like Mist and uh, they said no and just walked away. . and I did it without me the bomb this is the one yeah this is me beyond the madness Jesus why don't I have a good answer to that question oh why but coming back ah I saw billy eilish coming back through the rotation he was like wow baller amazing he said high bar with that episode wow he's on the nose that's amazing so my only real goal with this minor internet celebrity is to use him to infiltrate the inner sanctum of my favorite sports teams the teams that I.

Rooted to grow Do you have the most precious 13 year old boy of all time? Matt Damon would freak out if you had this moment thinking about your run-ins with the Red Sox and Patriots over the years. Oh, I've had so many of those moments. It was in 1999, the all-star game was at Fenway Park. They let us go out into the field. It's really hot. Wow, having batting practice and I hit the green monster on my dad. Wow, I don't think I'd ever need it. therapy in my life john this is terrible the other thing is that it doesn't feel good in my stomach either good turning a little do you want to do it do you want a gas pedal for the next wing do you want to slow down no no no, whatever you are, you lead the road man you're driving okay then next up is the scorpion disco that sounds fun oh god man no gronk click on that wing no it's terrible just say shade this fall you're meeting your lifelong and lifelong friend.

Ben Affleck's collaborator for the historical drama The Last Duel Do you have an all-time favorite scene in a movie you filmed with Ben? there's a scene in Goodwill Hunting where he tells me to get out of town and that was really cool because we worked on it for four or five years up to that point and it was a big scene for him and when he did it he did a take and the first take and gus van sant the director said it was great, i think i got it. and ben was so surprised because we had been imagining this day for so long, well he looked at me and I said "because you're right, I think we got it", he insisted on doing it again so he did it just three times and I I can't, I don't know what take Gus used.

He could have used any of them because they were all great, but the look of bewilderment on his face because this thing you had been waiting for so long was over in 20 minutes. Um, that was probably my favorite scene. Okay, Matt Damon, last touch. Oh, I have a big spice store. You want to hear a funny spicy. I would love to hear a spicy one. and he loves spice, you should have him on your show, in fact, he's a great director, it would be a really fun interview, we're filming a commercial here in New York, Doug calls this place Indian, uh, he says, I tell the people I love the most. spice in my food and they never put enough and I know you have great spice in there, I know you have hard things and I want hard things, so you give me everything you have, he says, I'm telling you, I guarantee I won't. come back and complain, the guy says, okay, doug goes to get his lunch, oh god, that's going to be too much, yeah, okay, and uh, he gets his food, goes to his trailer, takes a bite, goes to give him another bite and projectile violence it's like sometimes that can be like this too many bites the guy said if you want the good stuff here you go okay, very good, man, okay, cheers, man, thanks, this was fun, what growth journey, I could puke, I mean, I won.

I don't do it on camera but the last three are really hard it's like they did something to the lining of my stomach yeah my kids are going to be very happy but luckily Matt Damon we've reached the end of the challenge and Just one more cumbersome task before we roll into the credits. We've been very generous in talking about your entertaining and enlightening film career, and we hope to make a little bow to that here as we close things out, what would be your response to a cenophile? Who asked you to name four Matt Damon movies on this particular day, in these strange circumstances with your brain on fire, that best define your acting career?

There's sweat running down my neck like real drops, it's four amazing ones, as well as my four favorite performances. I would say Stillwater is one of them. I am very happy with Goodwill Hunting. I definitely love the insider. Well, one early on called Courage Under Fire, which was a supporting role, but that did a lot for me, I don't know. maybe wow, that's incredibly sexy sean look at ripley, he crashed, i am, i reached weight trapped like two sauces, i just drooled, oh my god, what's happening to my body, uh, look at you,

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drinking. on the wings of death sweat steaming wet but only working through the wings bill burr would be proud that your children are i did i heard i brought suit the boston like bill i did i'm I'm proud of that he is, I love that community , he's on my Mount Rushmore of comedians, so I had to get up and move on, along with Bill Burr on the Mount Rushmore of hot ones, chisel in the face of Matt Damon taking the wings of death, listen to the tail and now There's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera let people know what you're going through in your life nothing I'm going to try to recover from that I'm going to feel like I need a shower I mean, literally, if you knew what was going on in my

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right now, it's a new experience, I mean, I feel like if someone put a garden hose on my head, this would be amazing, but thanks, Sean , this was totally worth it. it Mike my kids will love it honestly we love the show I can't feel my tongue I feel like my tongue is getting thicker thank you all 15 minutes to go 45 yeah yeah yeah 45 , check again, you will be fine. wow, that was a fantastic move, man, you didn't drink any water, yeah, you know, just, that's amazing, that's really amazing, I cleaned a whole picture and then they came back and filled it up, I didn't put any more in, that could be a record, Well.

Better get on Bender, do it, yeah, pass the word on to Ben. Hey, what's going on Hot Ones fans? I'm Shawn Evans, checking in with a quick reminder of the Hot Ones Season 15 sauces currently available on Heatness.com. That's right, Heatness.com to get your hands on it, season 15 hot sauces, I know you're sitting there, wondering at home like, oh it can't be that hot, I think they're overdoing it, they're overdoing it, I have eaten spicy before I could do so. we'll put it to the test now available heatness.comheatness.com so you can get your hands on the season 15 hot sauces, watch your eyes