Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan is known for many things in his filmmaking: working with the same actors, using IMAX 70mm film, and creating mind-bending plot twists. For many actors, signing onto a Nolan film is the role of a lifetime, no matter how big or small. It turns out, the Inception director doesn’t see it the same way, and had a funny warning for Matt Damon before he signed on for Interstellar.
Interstellar is widely regarded as one of Nolan’s best films. The sci-fi adventure about the race through space to save humankind has an A-list cast including Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Nolan’s frequent collaborator Michael Caine. Nolan had sent the Good Will Hunting actor the script, wondering if he would sign on to the project. Damon recently took GQ’s Friendship Quiz with longtime bestie Ben Affleck and told his fellow Boston native that before he could accept the part in Interstellar, the Dunkirk director called him with a hilarious, yet direct warning about his potential role:
