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Titolo: Intervista a Matt Damon, candidato all'Oscar come miglior attore

"Good Will Hunting"'s Matt Damon is the real deal: a star who 
can act. 
BY WESLEY MORRIS - 
STUDENT.COM
 STAFF WRITER 
Matt Damon is That Guy. 
The one you wanted to sit next to in high school calculus. The one 
you wanted everyone else in school to see you hanging out with. The one
whose girlfriend you might scope if they broke up. Matt Damon looks like
he could be a lot of things, except maybe an actor, in that 
award-winning sense. 
Damon looks like a lot of things he's not: the J. Crew model on pages
17, 25 and 33 of the catalog, for instance, or the high school
quarterback with a middle school fan club and college 
freshman groupies. But it takes only 30 seconds - from the time he 
nervously sidles into a room at the Charles Hotel in his hometown of 
Cambridge, Mass. to the time he folds himself into a chair - to see that
he's just a guy. 
Okay, he's a guy who has no idea how rapidly his life 
is hurtling toward the Hollywood stratosphere - the hot zone of 
life-altering gossip-mongering and flashbulbs that turn actors into 
stars, stars into megalomaniacs, and megalomaniacs into washed-up, 
burnt-out has-beens whose egos are propped up on a decade's worth of 
supporting roles in mediocre movies. 
With four semesters left before he receives a bachelor's degree from
Harvard, Damon, 27, is a star exploding over Hollywood. His stellar
performances in "The Rainmaker" and "Good Will Hunting" are a one-two
punch that has thrust upon Damon the status of "supernova," a term
coined by New York Times chief film critic Janet Maslin. (former
supernovae include Ewan McGregor and Matthew McConaughey.) Damon's
Hollywood explosion is even better because his starring roles are in
films with artistic merit, making him a critic's darling. 
Damon, who wrote "Good Will Hunting" with best friend 
and fellow molten-hot thespian Ben Affleck, has made a breakthrough in 
Hollywood. He performs with the rarely-seen emotion of an actor who can
cut deeper than skin. Damon is the real deal: a guy who may be able to 
navigate stardom with the sheer force of his talent and a refusal to be
anybody's darling - unless that "anybody" is Minnie Driver. She's his 
love interest in the movie and she also happens to be his new 
girlfriend. 
Damon and Driver's high-profile relationship is hard since 
they are two young actors who actively avoid media scrutiny. The two are
a prince and princess of sorts, not courting attention so much as 
drawing it to themselves like magnets. "The problem," said Driver, who 
shoots the ceiling a piercing glance at mere mention of the subject, "is
I can't stand the thought of it detract[ing] from my work. I've been 
trying to play it down an enormous amount, but you can't." 
Some celebrity couples welcome attention from the media. But Driver
might have more to lose when she's sharing the limelight with Damon than
she stands to gain, lest she be dwarfed by his presence. She shudders to
think of the accompanying invasion of her privacy. "It's amazing," she 
said, "driving up here [from New York] yesterday we were coming out of 
my hotel and two people saw us sitting in the car. And the look on their
faces was like 'Oh, my God.' Because they saw Matt and me together and 
they'd clearly seen the movie the night before. And they ran up to the 
window and started taking pictures. I've never had that happen before."
Loss of privacy is less important to Damon than his happiness at having
found Driver - both for the sake of his film and his sanity. "Min's 
terrific," he gushed as he pushed his hands along the table like a boy 
in a sandbox. 
Damon's blushing impishness fades at the mention of his lucky streak in
Hollywood. (He just finished shooting Steven Spielberg's World War II
drama, "Saving Private Ryan," with Tom Hanks.) The names Morgan Freeman
and Robert Duvall send him ruminating about the type of actor he'd like
to be. "I think the best actor in the country is Morgan Freeman," he
said. 
"I had the chance to work with Duvall already," Damon said. "And I just,
like, followed him around. He taught me about immersion. He always said
soak it, soak it up. 'Soak what up?' and he'd say 'I don't know.'
[Learning how to act is] like going to another country and trying to
learn the language ... you wake up one day and you can speak the
language. And you don't know it happened. It's just like you're
dreaming." 
Adopting Duvall's work ethic helped Damon rise above 
the vast pool of interchangeable square-jawed up-and-coming actors. 
"People look at Brando and get the wrong message," Damon said. "Now, he
gets away with everything. Young actors look at [the trajectory of 
Brando's career] and make the mistake of saying all 'I have to do to be
a great actor is get fat.' Look at the young Marlon Brando and see what
he did and see how he worked. He busted his ass for a while." 
Damon has the option of taking the sexy, ass-busting Brando route, or
the mock-brooding, mock turtleneck, busted-ass Brando route. He's about
to begin filming John Dahl's gambling film "Rounders" with Edward
Norton. 
At least for now, we know which road he's not taking. 
-- 
"Negli occhi di Cuthbert Roland vedeva che Hax sarebbe morto
per il suo tradimento come una vipera muore in un pozzo. 
Nient'altro.
Erano occhi di pistolero" - Stephen King, "L'ultimo cavaliere"

Federica Arnolfo (
Fe...@flashnet.it
) wrote:
: "Good Will Hunting"'s Matt Damon is the real deal: a star who 
: can act. 
: BY WESLEY MORRIS - 
STUDENT.COM
 STAFF WRITER 
Bello. Mi ricorda una rivista chiamata appunto, "Interview", fatta in
California, e che si trova qui a VE d'estate, quando arrivano i bar...
ehm, i graditi ospiti; interviste ad attori famosi fatte con stile e un
tanto cosi' d'ironia, le ultime sull'arte visiva, foto notevolissime e
curiosita'. Una specie di "New Yorker" piu' moderno e meno acculturato.
Ti e' mai capitata? Io mi ero abbonato, ma poi mi hanno cacciato, perche'
le poste italiane si sono trattenute sette numeri per tre mesi (per poi
consegnarmeli tutti insieme), ed io non ho rinnovato a tempo.  Ora la
compero ogni tanto dal giornalaio del ponte degli Scalzi.
Ciao,
Carlo
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Ciao, Federica
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