What was matt damon major at harvard

While in a playwriting class taught by Anthony Kubiak, Damon wrote the first draft of the script that would one day become Good Will Hunting as a final project.

I still have time left and I want to go back when I get a chance. Although he never managed to finish that English degree, Damon did return to campus to receive the Harvard Arts Medal. Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter. He gained over 30 pounds to play Mark Whiteacre in The Informant! He and Ben Affleck lived two blocks away from each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when they were children.

Visited Haiti with Wyclef Jean to deliver food to hurricane victims. Originally cast as Dan White in Milk , but had to back out due to scheduling conflicts with Green Zone Was at some point in talks to star in a remake of Blue Thunder with John Milius directing. Appeared twice on the cover of GQ magazine: December '99 and August ' Was, along with Jake Gyllenhaal , the studio's first choice for the role of Jake Sully in Avatar , but director James Cameron chose the back then more unknown Sam Worthington in the lead role instead.

When he and best friend Ben Affleck were struggling actors, they both shared a Boston bank account. Became a father for the 1st time at age 35 when his wife Luciana Barroso gave birth to their daughter Isabella Zavala Damon on June 11, Became a father for the 2nd time at age 37 when his wife Luciana Barroso gave birth to their daughter Gia Zavala Damon on August 20, Became a father for the 3rd time at age 40 when his wife Luciana Barroso gave birth to their daughter Stella Zavala Damon on October 20, Filming The Informant!

Various locations. Is sometimes but rarely mistaken for actor Mark Wahlberg. The Departed won in the category. Both born on 8 October. Tenth cousin once removed of Ben Affleck. They are both descendants of William Knowlton Jr. Jimmy Kimmel had a long running gag of ending his late night show with an apology to Matt Damon for not being able to interview him.

He has starred in three different films where rescuing his character is a major plot point: Saving Private Ryan , Interstellar and The Martian He starred in two science fiction films with Jessica Chastain where his character needs to be rescued: Interstellar and The Martian Interstellar is the only one in which They do not have any scenes together.

That money kept Damon and Ben Affleck free from having to take other jobs so that they could write Good Will Hunting Has stated since The Bourne Identity, when rehearsing fight scenes with stunt men, he has bought each of them a bottle of champagne for every time he struck them by accident. Like his best friend Ben Affleck , he was an avid fan and collector of Daredevil comics growing up. Co-founded H20 Africa,an organization that brings clean drinking water to three million people in developing countries.

According to articles posted in Dec. The two also appeared in multiple episodes of 30 Rock together. Has the distinction of playing two stranded astronauts in need of a rescue; the villainous Dr.

Although his characters have used them frequently in films, he has a strong dislike of guns in real life. Was considered to play Cyclops in X-Men Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything.

They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. I know that's the way Heath Ledger feels and Ben Affleck feels the same way, too. We want to take the big swings. I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it.

To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public. I'm not being a monk. I live my life in New York. I have a girlfriend [Luciana Barroso]. But it's not cost-effective for paparazzi to follow us. They can get one picture of us walking down the street. Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: "I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job. It's ours to lose at the minute and, if we do make a third one, we want to make it as good as the first two. And if we can't do that, then we're going to have to let it drop. We've gone so far from the book. And so, in the updating process, we kind of threw out most of what he had so we're kind of on our own to find a third one. If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library". A few hours of that and they'd go home. What I want to do is a character-driven porn movie. It's all going to be about characters, and the porn's gonna grow all out of the character's and it's going to serve as character development.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants. There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again".

But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment. Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things. The Bond character will always be anchored in the s and in the values of the s. It's so anachronistic when you put it in the world we live in today that Mike Myers made a fortune with his own spy franchise [Austin Powers] - it makes for great comedy.

Matt Damon delivers the commencement address to graduating students at MIT. Credit: Getty Images. The year-old actor started his humorous address by apologising that the students had ended up with him as their speaker, explaining that previous speakers included Nobel Prize winners. The UN Secretary General. President of the World Bank. But his grades and hard work got him there. Although, he never finished his time at Harvard or received a degree. According to Matt's Harvard roommate, Jason Furman, he was already starting to book some decent roles while at school.

Even when Matt wasn't shooting he was part of Harvard's drama scene but he didn't fancy himself a writer until he was forced to fill one of his electives in order to qualify for graduation. However, Matt didn't end up finishing the script that he was writing But it was absolutely the beginning of Good Will Hunting. He based it on his own experience at the extremely prestigious school after growing up in a lower-middle-class suburb of Boston.

After all, what else could he draw upon that was THAT authentic. While it wasn't a finished screenplay, which tends to be around 90 - pages long, he had something. Matt Damon's Harvard professor, Anthony Kubiak, remembered the document that he was handed when speaking to Boston Magazine:.