Matt Damon Told Josh Hartnett Not to Gain Any Weight for ‘Oppenheimer’ Role
Josh Hartnett revealed during an interview on “The Tonight Show” (via Entertainment Weekly) that Matt Damon advised him on the set of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” not to gain any weight for his role. The only problem is that Hartnett had already packed on the pounds to play Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist Ernest Lawrence. Damon starred in the film as Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves.
“[Matt] gave me a lot of good advice. One in particular — one thing that was just so unhelpful: he told me not to gain the weight I’d already gained for the role,” Hartnett said. “I gained about 30 pounds for the role, and he was like, ‘You’re never gonna get that off again, man.’”
According to Hartnett, Damon’s rule of thumb is that you just “don’t gain weight over 40” for any movie role because it’s near impossible to shed the pounds.
“He’s like, ‘You’re gonna spend the rest of your life trying to get that weight off and it’s never gonna come off because your body’s gonna want to get that weight back on. You’re just gonna keep growing back out to that size, and you’re going to try and get it off, but it’s just gonna go back,’” Hartnett said. “And he kept telling me, like, over the course of the production.”
“I was like, ‘Thanks, Matt. Thanks for telling me this now. I’ve already gained it,’” Hartnett concluded.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 26, 2024 10:55 PM
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Except for his hideous haircut, Josh didn't look that bad on Fallon last night.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 26, 2024 1:41 AM
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I really, really want to have sex with Josh Hartnett.
He is so attractive to me.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 26, 2024 1:42 AM
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Maybe Matt told Josh not to gain any weight so he would remain appealing to Clooney?
Years ago a DLer reported seeing Josh and George at a party and the two said they were going to the bathroom together to "smoke some weed". DLer said everyone was smoking weed openly and no need to go to the bathroom... LOL.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 26, 2024 1:44 AM
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Matt Damon has a fat ass!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 26, 2024 2:07 AM
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Hartnett is super hot in the Bear
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 26, 2024 2:56 AM
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Matt and his buddy Ben are both jerks
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 26, 2024 2:58 AM
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[quote] Matt Damon has a fat ass!
Links please.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 26, 2024 3:02 AM
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Unfortunately he has that large, disgusting black neck mole.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 26, 2024 3:02 AM
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Imagine being gifted a once in a lifetime career resurgence and spending it all on a new M. Night Shyamalan film
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 26, 2024 3:12 AM
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R14 it seems like Josh is drawn to the horror genre, and I think he's good at it.
Halloween H20, The Faculty, 30 Days of Night, and Penny Dreadful were all movies/shows that I can watch over and over again.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 26, 2024 3:16 AM
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I love him in The Virgin Suicides.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 26, 2024 3:35 AM
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It's funny because a piglet like Matt Damon thinks Josh Hartnett has the same metabolism as him.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 26, 2024 4:10 AM
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Hartnett has major bi vibes. Like 6-pack of beer frat boy bi.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 26, 2024 4:35 AM
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Didn't Josh Hartnett have sex with Reeve Carney on Penny Dreadful? That was the best show ever.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 26, 2024 5:03 AM
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Hell yes, R19!
And that scene is the stuff of my fantasies about Josh....
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 26, 2024 5:38 AM
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I think Reeve is adorable too, R22.
I also suspect he may be gay/bi.
He's very into musical theater, and his girlfriend is asian.
You do the math.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 26, 2024 5:46 AM
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If you read between the lines what Matt was really trying to tell him was, "I'm only attracted to tall, skinny men. Like Ben."
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 26, 2024 6:13 AM
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In how many movies with number or numbers in the title has Hartnett starred?
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 26, 2024 10:55 PM
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