It was only a couple of days ago when actor Guy Pearce revealed that he chose not to play Daredevil back in the 2003 movie adaptation from Fox, and now Matt Damon has also let slip that he was close to signing up to play the Man Without Fear before the role went to his friend Ben Affleck. In an interview with
The Times, he admitted that he passed on the project because he had reservations about director Mark Steven Johnson.
"I would have done Daredevil. Ben and I loved that comic book but I just didn't quite believe in the script or the director at the time."
While many fans disliked Affleck's portrayal of the character and other films he did at the time, perception of him has now changed after hits like
The Town - something that Damon is very pleased about.
"People always want to make a distinction between me and Ben. 'OK, well, which guy wrote that? Who's the talented guy? Who's the clinger? Oh well, I see, it's Ben, that's the Michael Bay guy and Matt's the Anthony Minghella guy, right?'"
"The reality is that if Michael Bay had offered me Armageddon when Good Will Hunting was in the can, which was when Ben got offered the role, I would have taken it too. I would have taken any job that any director offered me at that point. And if Ben had been offered Saving Private Ryan he would have done it, but suddenly I became the serious one. It's all bulls**t."
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