Matt Damon on Stillwater, Steven Soderbergh, and No Sudden Move

With director Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater opening in theaters this weekend, I recently spoke to Matt Damon about making the crime drama. If you haven’t seen the Stillwater trailers, Damon plays an oil-rig worker from Oklahoma who goes to Marseille, France to try and exonerate his estranged daughter (Abigail Breslin) over a murder she did not commit. Along the way, he befriends a French woman (Camille Cottin) who tries to assist him with his daughter’s case. Stillwater was written by McCarthy alongside Marcus Hinchey, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. During the interview, Damon talked about the way McCarthy writes authentic dialogue, copying his look on real roughnecks, what people would be surprised to learn about the making of Stillwater, how they shot the sequences in Oklahoma with anamorphic lenses and static shots and the stuff in Marseille handheld, and more. In addition, he talked about why he always tries to work on every Steven Soderbergh movie and being part of No Sudden Move.