Damon: 'Informant! script was jaw-dropping'

Matt Damon has said that he was jaw-dropped when he first read the script for his upcoming movie The Informant!.

In the Steven Soderbergh movie, the actor plays real-life ex-Archer Daniels Midland executive and whistleblower Mark Whitacre.

Damon told Parade: "Reading the book and the script, my jaw was on the floor. You can't make these things up. It was a whistleblower story unlike any I'd ever heard.

"This guy was doing these incredibly courageous things, wearing a wire and gathering all of this information about price fixing. At the same time he was embezzling money from the company he was exposing and the FBI had no idea."

He added: "The funny part is that he was a brilliant executive on the rise. But he was battling his own kind of mental health issues. He couldn't help himself.

"Even predating this whole story, he was telling people that he was adopted by a family after his parents had died in an automobile accident and none of it was true."