Exclusive: Matt Damon talks Stillwater, working with Tom McCarthy and not going Jason Bourne with his character
Coming out this week from Focus Features is the dramatic thriller Stillwater, directed by Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy and starring Matt Damon.
Stillwater follows an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.
Co-starring Camille Cottin, Abigail Breslin, Deanna Dunagan, and Lilou Siauvaud, Stillwater was written by McCarthy, Marcus Hinchey, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré.
For Damon, it’s a chance to work with McCarthy, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for the Oscar winning film Spotlight. He also gets to play a character that isn’t funny or your everyday hero, but a regular American trying to find a way to free his daughter from another country. Having appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move and playing Carroll Shelby previously in Ford v Ferrari opposite Christian Bale, it’s good to see Damon continue to play different personas in every role he takes. BlackFilmandTV.com’s Wilson Morales recently spoke with Damon about Stillwater and working with McCarthy.