Does the complexity come through in the process of making the film?
Matt Damon: Yeah. Its a pretty complicated topic. We all did a lot of reading. [Stephen] Gaghan had a pretty good-sized reading list. He sent me like 12 books and I read some of them. I did my best. Q: Talk about the emotional stuff your character is going through. Damon: That’s the real part of my role that is important to the movie as a whole, the balance of the movie. Youve got four storylines going. Mine is the most emotional from the outset because of what happens. So, in that sense, it’s the least complicated of the four stories. It’s very easy for an audience to follow what’s going on with the Bryan Woodman story because it’s this big visceral occurrence at the beginning of it. So, that was my job in this one–to try and make that stuff be believable. One of the things I really liked about it is that Gaghan is not reductive with his characters. It’s not that the guy is just ambitious. All the characters are pretty complex, are human. They’re various shades of gray. Q: In this mo
