Matt Damon was nominated for this year's best comedy (if you listen to HFPA), The Martian. He plays a botanist who finds himself stuck on Mars, and faces the epic struggle to survive long enough for his team to get him home. Hilarious stuff, you can imagine. But while he's not growing plants on Mars and trashing disco music, he's apparently working on his singing. Unfortunately for the world, his brief but memorable cameo in Eurotrip where he performs the punk rock song "Scotty Doesn't Know" is just a lip synch. But if you go back a few years earlier, you'll find him stretching his jazz skills in The Talented Mr Ripley, where he sings a vulnerable rendition of My Funny Valentine. This is, of course, to say nothing of his role on Will and Grace, where he played the straight-pretending-to-be-gay vocalist that Jack competes against in the gay choir, because they just don't have any good choirs for straight men. Both are awesome in different ways, but the takeaway from all of this is that if Matt Damon were to start singing in more of his movies, that wouldn't be, like, a problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_A9xX_CVFA
Audrey Fox is an ex-film student, which means that she prefers to spend her days in the dark, watching movies and pondering the director's use of diegetic sound. She currently works as an entertainment writer, joyfully rambling about all things film and television related. Add her on Twitter at @audonamission and check out her film blog at 1001moviesandbeyond.com.
