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Topics: Matt Damon, Celebrity, Film and TV
Joe Harker
Topics: Matt Damon, Celebrity, Film and TV
There's no escaping the movie he considers his worst for Matt Damon, especially because his daughter still taunts him about it years later.
When you've had a long enough career in Hollywood eventually some of the movies you turn out are going to be stinkers.
Matt Damon has done enough good work in his career that when something really bad comes along with him in it you can confidently say it wasn't really his fault that it went wrong.
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When the actor does a bad film you can probably guess that it either wasn't going to be all that good in the first place or that it's some sort of trick played by Jimmy Kimmel as part of their long running feud.
Damon told all when he appeared on the WTF Podcast and opened up about the movie he thought was probably his worst, explaining why years later he still can't escape it.
That movie is The Great Wall, a 2016 movie about European mercenaries looking for gunpower in 11th century China who end up helping fight waves of invading aliens as they hurl themselves against the Great Wall of China.
Damon said he wanted to do the movie because he was a fan of director Zhang Yimou, but realised pretty quickly that it wasn't going to be a good experience after he flagged something he was unhappy with on set.
The actor was told via translator that 'the director agrees with you, but since this is a Hollywood movie...', and Damon was left thinking 'oh god, no no' as he realised they'd be making the sort of movie Hollywood studio executives wanted to see.
A director compromising on their vision for the sake of making a more 'Hollywood' movie is not often a good sign for the people working on a film and Damon's fears turned out to be justified.
The Great Wall didn't pick up very good reviews and struggled to bring in enough money to justify the big budget it had cost to make.
The actor told the WTF Podcast that there was really nothing worse for him than being involved with a production when he knew it wouldn't be a success.
He thought he was signing up for an 'outsider comes into a new culture' movie like Lawrence of Arabia or Dances With Wolves and it really wasn't that.
However, Damon's harshest and most persistent critic over The Great Wall was his one of his daughters who refused to call the movie by its full name.
Damon explained that she would call it 'The Wall', omitting the middle word in the title because 'there's nothing great about that movie'.
Kids can be so cruel but her dad has seen the bright side of things as Damon has said 'she's one of the funniest people I know'.