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Damon: 'No one offered me a job in months'
Published Saturday, Sep 19 2009, 20:16 BST | By Marcell Minaya
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The 38-year-old actor, who won an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting with friend Ben Affleck, has said that the director offered him the film in 2001 when his career had stalled, reports STV.
Damon said: "Nobody had offered me a job in nine months. I was very aware of my position in the business. It was in that climate that he called.
"He said that he found something for us to do. I was so confused by that because nobody had offered me a job in so long. I could be the lead in a Steven Soderbergh movie? I instantly said yes."
The Informant! is currently in US cinemas and is to be released in the UK on November 20.
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