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10. Matt Damon's Career Was Going Downhill Before Being Offered The Informant!

As hard as it may be to believe, Matt Damon's career was actually in a little bit of trouble in the early 2000's.

According to the star himself during a Hot Ones interview, before being offered the lead role in Steven Soderbergh's The Informant!, his career was very much heading in the wrong direction.

At the time of chatting with the talented director, Damon's eventual hit Bourne series hadn't been released in cinemas and the star had been at the centre of a number of "bombs". And the actor was actually so convinced that nobody would be willing to give him a job at the time of chatting with Soderbergh that he didn't even realise he was being offered the part by his eventual director.

So, after double-checking if he was merely being brought on board to write the script, and being told that Steven most definitely just wanted him to star in the comedy crime flick, Damon was all in.

And while it may have taken nearly a decade for the two to actually unleash The Informant! into the world, by the time it was, Damon was a rather bankable Hollywood star. And the feature went on to earn some pretty decent reviews, too.