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- 20 Jul 16
The Hollywood star weighs in on one of 'Matt Damon's' most challenging roles
If you're a fan of Team America: World Police, no doubt one of your favourite characters was the very derpy, one phrase puppet Matt Damonnnnnn.
The 2005 masterpiece directed by the South Park duo, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, about a group of American puppets trying to take down North Korea's late supreme leader, Kim Jong-il, is a classic. However, hilarious as it was to watch, the making of was such an ordeal for Stone and Parker that they've claimed they'd never make a sequel.
During a Reddit AMA the actor was asked what he thought about his role in the movie?
"I was always kind of bewildered by Team America. I think because it’s hard for us to understand what our images are in public. I think we’re not good judges of that, and when I saw myself on screen just only able to say my own name and not really that well, I kind of wondered “Wow, is that how people perceive me?"
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"At that point I just kind of was like, I’m a screenwriter and an actor, and like really? I can barely say my own name? So I was always bewildered by that, and I never talked to Trey and Matt about that. And incidentally, I believe those two are geniuses, and I don’t use that word lightly. I think they are absolute geniuses, and what they’ve done is awesome and I’m a big fan of theirs, but I never quite understood that one."
Although, the political activist Damon was happy about one thing his cameo represented. "But I will say this. Those of us who were parodied in that video were parodied because we were against the Iraq war, and we went on the record against that war, and so history is on my side not theirs."