People cannot help but rave about Matt Damon's performance in Ridley Scott's movie "The Martian." His performance was both engaging and riveting, and he easily made audiences laugh and cry with his triumphs and ordeals in Mars.
During an interview with Variety, Damon shared that Scott enabled him to act better by setting up the proper mood. Damon said that the director "did a really tricky thing" during one scene when astronaut Mark Watney was caught up in loneliness for being the only living creature in a desolate planet.
"The rest of the cast had already wrapped and it was just Ridley and I," said Damon. "He got the sound from their side of the scene and he piped it into my helmet, but didn't tell me he was going to do it. So suddenly I heard the voices of my friends and it struck me I hadn't heard another voice for years. I'd been communicating by email. these people were coming to save me, these people who had sacrificed a year of their lives for me. And I just wept. It wasn't planned or forced, it was about him creating an environment. And it was the dream of an actor because you just have to show up and be relaxed."
Scott is an amazing director who is meticulous about his work, and he gets along really well with his entire crew and that is why he hires the same people again and again.
Damon said that this is because "they don't want to miss an opportunity to work with him."
Of course, Scott believes that everything does not always go as planned, even if people try their best to set everything in order.
"Things don't go quite the way you planned and the emotion takes over, which I happen to think is beautiful," the director shared.
Earlier, Damon told Entertainment Weekly that he actually enjoyed the process of working alone for most of "The Martian."
"It was one of the reasons why I wanted to do it - I had never tried to do anything by myself in that way. That was a fun challenge. There were all these monologues where Mark (his character) realizes he's stranded on Mars - like, two-page speeches. We'd do it one take. We could just go. Ridley would come blasting on set and go, 'You and me could do two movies at once!'" he said.
