Matt Damon tricks James Corden into being his stunt double in hilarious video
“James looks like he can take a punch. He’s got an extremely punchable face.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4boCdeT3iI
Stephen Colbert wasn’t the only late-night host sporting a neck brace Monday night. His CBS counterpart James Corden ended up in one as well, thanks to a hilarious sketch in which the Late Late Show host spends a disastrous day as Matt Damon’s stunt double.
In the sketch, Corden thinks he’s doing Damon a favor with a cameo role in the latest Bourne film so that the actor will appear as a guest on his show. Instead, Corden ends up getting punched in the face, jumping off a roof, and getting hit by a train, much to Damon’s delight.
“James looks like he can take a punch,” Damon says. “That can’t be the first time he’s been punched in the face. He’s got an extremely punchable face.”
Damon must think that some of his real-life Bourne co-stars have very punchable faces as well. After the sketch ended, Damon told Corden that he often accidentally punches the actors he’s performing with during fight scenes. To make up for his errant blows, he struck a deal with one of the actors, a French kickboxer, during the first Bourne movie, promising to buy him a bottle of champagne each time he accidentally hit him in the face.
“At the end, I owed him a case of champagne,” Damon said. “So, 12 bottles of champagne. That’s basically my average on the four movies.”
Damon, who appeared with comedian Keegan Michael-Key, also talked about his recent commencement speech at MIT, joking that he had now “fake graduated” from the two biggest educational institutions in his hometown of Cambridge, after walking with his graduating class at Harvard despite falling short of the credits necessary for a degree.
“Look, I’m an actor,” Damon said. “I’m not supposed to really graduate.”
“His parents are fake proud,” Key added.
Watch the clip below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f3TRPHgfGw
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