In this EXCLUSIVE interview, Matt Damon tells us, how Bourne overtook James Bond, and how The movie saved his life!

Amid the clamour of London’s Waterloo station on a Wednesday Morning. Matt Damon is being pursued by armed assassins. He weaves and darts through the throng, fleeing from couple of terrifyingly hard-looking thugs who urgently scan the crowds for him. Occasionally they reach inside their jackets for guns, or touch their ear to listen to invisible transmitters. If only they see what I see, what they want, I can precisely see where Bourne is!

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Actually, its very hard to believe this is going to make the final cut of the £75 million The Bourne Ultimatum. As the camera roll, the tannoy booms out continuously, announcing departures for Windsor and Guilford. All around the station there are signs-in effect a legal waiver – warning the commuters they could end up in a shot. But only a handful appear to know they are making their Hollywood debuts- they are too busy travelling and nosing around Boots and Tie Rack to notice that the Bourne crew and one of the Hollywood’s biggest stars are among them.

For the first time on a Bourne Film, Damon has allowed almost total access to a journalist and will spend several days telling his war stories-not just about the movie, which required him to spend six months being hit and learning to fire an arsenal of real guns, but about a delinquent childhood, a brush with death by starvation, and persecution as ‘traitor’ by sections of American media.

He’s articulate, open and as ferociously intelligent as you would expect for Harvard man. H e wears black jeans and a black shirt over his lean but muscular frame. With his straw-coloured hair cut short, he has the air of young senator: all angular features, New England accent, disarming smile and realistic views about the fragility of his celebrity.
‘Oh yes, Jason Bourne saved my life,’ he smiles. ‘The weekend the Bourne Identity opened in 2001 I was doing a play in Londn’s West End and I hadn’t had a film offer in six months because I’d had a couple of movies tank. The word was the first Bourne movie was also going badly, because it had been delayed so long and had so many rounds of reshooting. It had all the hall marks of a turkey.

‘So I went from my final night of doing This is Our youth on Friday, to Sunday when I had 20 to 30 movie offers, just based on the opening weekend of The Bourne Identity. It reinvented my career. Its when you see how the business really works that the rose-tinted glasses come off. Noone of its personal. Noone of it has to do with how professional you are, or how you conduct yourself, which explains why some people consistently work despite their horrible reputations. The only thing that matters is if you are making money and your films are making money, because then Hollywood lets you keep working-really, that’s it! It was good lesson for me. It allowed me to be a much bigger p**** at work. Only joking’
Now, thanks to Bourne, he’s joined the Hollywood elite, working with Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and the star-laden Ocean’s 13 team with pals George Clooney and Brad Pitt, all in 18 months. He’s earning more than £5million a film and has overcome insecurities that nearly drove him to a breakdown, to became one of Hollywood’s most recognisable names.

Doe he take it a a compliment that Bourne influenced Bond? ‘Yes- I mean, you can ape a style. But that character is fundamentally different from Bourne. I have met Daniel Craig and he is terrific. But Bond is an Establishment guy. He is a misogynist, and imperialist, he is all the things that Bourne isn’t. He kills people then Drinks a Martini’
Doung Liam said to me before we started the first one, “James Bond does not speak to me at any level and I think it would be cool to have a James Bond that people our age can relate to” Bond is a Character left over from Sixties. Its what makes Austin Powers so funny- he brings those values into today and they clash so much with what we have evolved into that he makes a fool out of himself constantly’

In the next interview Matt Damon tell his friend ship with Bard Pitt and Clooney + How he managed to handle guns so accurately! Visit http://www.xomba.com/user/15016/xtrack for next interveiw!

So Matt Damon has beaten James Bond at his own game.....