Matt Damon - Character Actor

The NY Times did a great profile of Matt Damon last week, saying he's an A-list character actor:

Details matter to Mr. Damon, who has put together his quietly impressive résumé with a curatorial eye, working his way to the top of the Hollywood heap while avoiding the traps of a typical A-list career. “The leading-man stuff doesn’t come easily to me,” he said. “I’ve always felt like a character actor.”

Matt Damon has had an incredible year, with an amazing performance as Mark Whitacre in The Informant! and upcoming roles in Invictus and The Green Zone.  His list of upcoming films is also very varied and very interesting:

Mr. Damon is solidly booked for much of the next year. After “The Adjustment Bureau” he’ll work with Mr. Eastwood again in the supernatural thriller “Hereafter.” He’ll also be in the Coen brothers’ adaptation of Charles Portis’s novel “True Grit,” opposite Jeff Bridges; George Clooney’s “Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld,” about the United States government’s case against Osama bin Laden’s driver; and Mr. Soderbergh’s film about Liberace, with Michael Douglas as the kitschy pianist and Mr. Damon as his bodyguard and lover.

It's definitely worth reading the entire article. And no surprise, Matt wants to direct.