{"id":588778,"date":"2021-07-12T10:36:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T14:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=588778"},"modified":"2021-07-12T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T14:36:37","slug":"watch-these-people-were-wonderful-matt-damon-meets-eye-opening-oklahoma-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-these-people-were-wonderful-matt-damon-meets-eye-opening-oklahoma-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: \u2018These People Were Wonderful\u2019: Matt Damon Meets \u2018Eye-Opening\u2019 Oklahoma Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-these-people-were-wonderful-matt-damon-meets-eye-opening-oklahoma-culture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=588778&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Damon.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival after the opening of his new film \u201cStillwater,\u201d actor Matt Damon revealed that traveling to Oklahoma and learning how the politically conservative \u201croughnecks\u201d who work in the oil industry live was \u201ceye-opening\u201d for him.<\/p>\n<p>Damon stated, \u201cBeing invited into their homes, into a backyard barbecue, and the guitar comes out and somebody starts start singing church songs. It\u2019s a culturally very specific place and very different from how he and I grew up. So it was really fascinating, and these people were wonderful to us and really helped us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reporter from Variety asked Damon, \u201cI think one of the most interesting parts of the film, and oddly charming, is when Camille (actress Camille Cottin) asks Bill (Bill Baker, Damon\u2019s character) if he\u2019s voted for Trump. He has an interesting out, because he\u2019s a felon. Do you think that character would have? And how did you work with Tom to sort of build his geo-political identity?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I mean, if Oklahoma, I think was the reddest state in the last two elections, and you talk to those roughnecks, they\u2019re always going to vote \u2014 I mean, they\u2019re in the oil business,\u201d Damon replied. \u201cTheir livelihood depends on that. And so I don\u2019t even think it\u2019s a question at all. And I think if we \u2014 we didn\u2019t want to make it expressly political \u2014 and I think he is who he is and he\u2019s from where he\u2019s from, and the movie has a lot of empathy for him, and so do we. He says, \u2018No, I didn\u2019t vote,\u2019 and their reaction\u2019s, \u2018Oh. Phew.\u2019 And he goes, \u2018No, I didn\u2019t vote \u2019cause I was in prison.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Damon continued, \u201cHe\u2019s completely \u2014 these guys don\u2019t apologize for who they are or what they believe \u2014 ever. \u2018Do you own a gun?\u2019 \u2018Yeah. I got two.\u2019 You know what I mean?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time that Tom and I spent in Oklahoma was absolutely critical to building this character,\u201d Damon said. \u201cI feel like we built this character together; it was something we just talked so much about. But we got so much guidance from the actual guys; I mean these these guys who took us out to the actual oil rigs. We spent hours in the car driving from one place to another. Everything\u2019s far away in Oklahoma; the roads are big; the trucks are big. Everything\u2019s big and far away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Being invited into their homes, into a backyard barbecue, and the guitar comes out and somebody starts start singing church songs,\u201d Damon recalled. \u2018It\u2019s a culturally very specific place and very different from how he and I grew up. So it was really fascinating, and these people were wonderful to us and really helped us. I didn\u2019t know when I first read this script how specific this culture was in Texas and Oklahoma, these roughnecks and what they do. And so it was really eye-opening for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo for us it was about the details and getting as specific as we could,\u201d he noted. \u201cThe blue jeans: \u2018Do you wear these blue jeans?\u2019 \u2018No, you wear these ones cause they have fire-retardant on them.\u2019 And they feel like cardboard, and that affects the way you walk. Their bodies are all similar; they all have this goatee, and the hat, the glasses; they\u2019re strong guys because that stuff is heavy that they\u2019re lifting, but they\u2019re not six-pack guys with their abs. They\u2019re big but their strong; that kind of informed every little detail about the physicality of it and then everything that was going on inside with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matt Damon on &#039;Stillwater&#039; and  His Trump-Supporting Character - Cannes Press Conference\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c5vlEu9IuHM?start=865&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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