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Matt Damon On Auditioning To Be George Clooney’s Robin In ‘Batman’ & Almost Playing Two-Face In ‘The Dark Knight’

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02.08.2021 - 18:45

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Even though Matt Damon has appeared in a number of high-profile roles in massive box office hits and awards-worthy features, he’s probably turned down just as many.

And in a recent interview, he details a few of those roles, including a couple of superhero-y ones. Speaking to Happy. Sad. Confused., Damon opened up about the myriad opportunities that he’s had to pass up over the years.

And we’re not talking just some indie features, but some of the most acclaimed and biggest box office hits of their times, including a role in Christopher Nolan’s superhero epic, “The Dark Knight.” READ MORE: Matt Damon On Michael Mann’s ‘Good Will Hunting’ Take As Possible Director: “What The F*ck Is Going On?” Included in the list of films that Damon walked.

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“retire[d] the f-slur” after getting told off by his daughter.In a interview published by The Sunday Times, Damon related an incident months ago when he made a joke using what his daughter described as “the f-slur for a homosexual”. His daughter criticised him for using it and wrote “a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous”.

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