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24-05-Article from Entertainment Tonight you can read the whole story HERE

On Location with Matt!

ET: So you're in this play. How's it going?

MATT DAMON: The last two days, with this cold, it's been interesting just because I'm sniffling and coughing my way through it. But it's great, it's going great. It's a fantastic experience, it's everything that I wanted it to be definitely.

ET: How did you get involved in this?

MATT: It's not something I've done since college, but it's always something I've done and I was looking for the chance to do a play if a good one came along. CASEY AFFLECK was going off to do this play, and he told me and it sounded like an incredible thing to do. I was immediately jealous! Then SUMMER PHOENIX, his girlfriend, who's also another good friend of mine, took the other role in this play and I said, "What is this? Everyone's leaving New York, everyone's going off to London to have a good time without me!" Casey said, "Well there's another role in the play... " He handed me the play and I read it. I called the playwright and I talked to him for a while and signed up and that was it.

ET: When you walk around London, you think you're walking around Broadway these days with MADONNA, you, Casey and Summer. Have you seen any of what the other Americans are doing?

MATT: We, unfortunately, are on the same schedule as everybody else, so we can't see much. Gwyneth came and saw our show because her show started later than ours did, so she came and supported us. We unfortunately can't go and see her play because we unfortunately run at the same exact time.

20-05-BIG THANKS TO HARUKA for sending this to me :)

Summer is in the Culture magazine 28 april 2002, you can read & see the pictures HERE

16-05-Thanks to Haruka for this news, The Official Site for The Believer HERE with the trailer & some film clips on it

* Article about Esther Kahn

Film; Watching a Woman's Invention of Herself
February 24, 2002, Sunday
By KENT JONES
Arts and Leisure - 1320 words

ESTHER KAHN is a young heroine so stubborn and single-minded that even her creator is a little scared of her. ''She's the kind of girl that all the other girls hate,'' says Arnaud Desplechin, director of ''Esther Kahn,'' which is opening Friday in New York. ''She thinks that there's only one path you can take to becoming a human being like everybody else, with a precise set of directions. It's crazy. But I admire her.''

The film follows the journey of its title character, played by Summer Phoenix, which begins with an impoverished childhood in the Jewish quarter of late-19th-century London, where she's both a financial burden and a puzzle to her family. It continues through her career as a stage actress under the professional tutelage of a threadbare thespian, Nathan (Ian Holm), and the romantic tutelage of a drama critic and playwright, Philip Haygard (Fabrice Desplechin, the director's brother) and finally to a cathartic opening night in a production of ''Hedda Gabler.'' It may be one of the most harrowing sequences in contemporary cinema, giving a whole new dimension to the term ''stage fright.'' Simply put, this is a movie about a young woman giving birth to herself. The delivery is often hair-raising, but the experience is revelatory, for Esther and for the audience.

15-05-LONDON (AP) — Matt Damon will take a break from his performances at a London theater to join a U.S. promotional tour for his new movie.

Damon opened in "This Is Our Youth" on May 7 at London's Garrick Theater after two weeks of previews. He'll leave the play May 30 and fly to the United States to fulfill commitments to promote "The Bourne Identity," based on the Robert Ludlum spy novel.

A publicist for the Kenneth Lonergan play said Tuesday that the length of Damon's absence had not yet been finalized but the actor would definitely be back in London for the final curtain June 15.

Damon took over the lead role in the comedy about a trio of rich and wayward youths in New York from Hayden Christensen, who plays Anakin Skywalker in the upcoming "Star Wars" film.

He will be replaced by his understudy, British actor Adam Rayner. Damon's co-stars, Casey Affleck — brother of Damon's longtime collaborator, Ben Affleck — and Summer Phoenix, will continue in their roles.

12-05-Older news 26 March 2002 STARS’ FEARFUL FLIGHT