Matt Damon on The Bourne Indentity

ByABC News via logo
June 13, 2002, 11:25 AM

N E W   Y O R K, June 13 -- Matt Damon picked up some tips on boxing and hairdressing while filming The Bourne Identity.

In his interview with ABCNEWS' Diane Sawyer, Damon says the fight scenes in Bourne cost him a case of champagne. And find out why everyone's bugging him for a free hair cut. Read the transcript of his interview with Sawyer.

Below is an uncorrected, unedited transcript from the interview as it aired on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America.

DIANE SAWYER: How are you feeling?

MATT DAMON: I'm exhausted.

SAWYER: You've been traveling. You just got back from London where you were doinga play?

DAMON:Yeah.

SAWYER:That's great.

DAMON:I was in London doing a play for the last couple of months andthen I've been traveling around for the last couple of weekspromoting The Bourne Identity. And I was just saying that thiswas the first night in a few months that I slept in my own bed.

SAWYER: Oh.

DAMON:And so I slept so well.

SAWYER:Bliss, bliss. Just rolling around in your own sheets and

DAMON:Stretching out and just it was great, it was great.

SAWYER: flopping around.

DAMON:Yeah.

SAWYER:So, now, is this a true story or not a true story? The director hadsome nerve. When you were getting ready to do The Bourne Identity,the director came to you, lifted up your shirt and said, "Hit thegym."

DAMON:Oh, yeah, that's true, that's true. Well, we were trying to figureout what the guy should look like and all the work that would gointo it. And we decided on this pretty serious regimen of martialarts and boxing and weapons training and all this stuff, and we kindof talking about it, theorizing kind of you know, six months outor something. And he came over and just picked the shirt up andlooked at me and it was just enough, "OK, enough you know, enoughtalk."

SAWYER:Were you stung a little bit?

DAMON:No.