By 2004, Matt Damon was already a significant Hollywood star together with his storied CV together with the lead function in The Bourne Identification (2002), a key character in Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and a Finest Authentic Screenplay Oscar for Good Will Searching (1997), which he starred in, and co-wrote together with his childhood pal Ben Affleck. So he actually did not want to make a shock visitor look as a punk singer in trashy ‘teen intercourse comedy’ EuroTrip. However we’re glad that he did.
For individuals who is probably not totally au fait with the plot of EuroTrip,. considered one of many vaguely raunchy Noughties movies aiming to get a slice of the American Pie er, pie, the narrative begins with dorky teenager Scotty Thomas (Scott Mechlowicz) being dumped by his highschool ‘sweetheart’ Fiona (Kristin Kreuk) following his commencement.
As if this weren’t sufficiently miserable, Scotty then attends a commencement get together the place he, all his classmates, and presumably each different highschool senior inside a 5 mile radius, learns that his now-ex girlfriend has been dishonest on him for the previous 12 months with the lead singer of an area punk band: this he discovers as a result of mentioned singer, Donnie, has written a music celebrating the numerous sexual encounters he has been sharing with “the nastiest, freakiest, little sexpot I do know”, sensitively titled Scotty Would not Know. Cue a tattooed, pierced, tongue-waggling Matt Damon gleefully delivering lyrics comparable to “I am unable to imagine he is so trusting / Whereas I am proper behind you thrusting / Fiona’s bought him on the telephone / And she or he’s making an attempt to not moan“.
Poor Scotty.
Damon’s cameo is arguably the perfect factor about EuroTrip, and his participation within the movie baffled nearly everybody who noticed it, and certainly the hundreds of thousands extra who did not, and by no means need to.
The explanation why Damon took the function is definitely very healthful. Quizzed about it throughout a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Something), the actor revealed that he signed up as a result of the movie’s screenwriters, Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg and David Mandel have been his associates in school, and by an especially completely happy coincidence he was scheduled to be in Prague working with Heath Ledger on The Brothers Grimm – director Terry Gilliam’s follow-up to Worry And Loathing in Las Vegas – on the similar time that Schaffer was directing his shoot for EuroTrip within the Czech capital.
“Alec and Dave and Jeff have been making EuroTrip they usually mentioned ‘Will you come play this [Henry] Rollins sort of insane, unhealthy model of a suburban punk band man?’ And I mentioned, Yea, I am in Prague.” Damon informed Redditors.
“So I confirmed up and I am sitting there, and I am like, I am carrying a wig, simply shave my head, let’s simply go for it, and we did it, and put a bunch of piercings throughout. And ‘Scotty Would not Know‘, the music, was truly written by considered one of my school roommate’s brothers, and… considered one of my school roommates… Jason, is enjoying guitar in that group. So it was sort of a household affair.”
Matt Damon, women and gents: one of many good guys.
However is that this EuroTrip cameo Damon’s best music-related appearing function we hear you ask? Effectively, truly, no, that might be this one…
