The Bourne Obesity, or How Matt Got Fat
We’ve been keeping our eye on Matt Damon, and not just because he’s the Sexiest Man Alive. For quite some time, Damon had seemed to be plumping up like Ball Park Frank.
While some had speculated he was wearing a fat suit, Damon now admits to People his flab is 100 percent all-natural man meat.
Yep, there’s now more Matt Damon to f–k love. The one-time action hero packed on between 20 and 30 pounds for his role in the upcoming thriller The Informant, which we’re guessing is about a whistler blower at a pretzel, beer and doughnut factory.
Matt Damon: The Bourne Expansion
Seeing the one-time Sexiest Man Alive appear, well, not at his sexiest while shooting the Informant in Hawaii has kind of put us at a loss for words.
While our blogger brethren over at Just Jared and Jezebel have come up with some pretty ingenious headlines to accompany this photo, we’re, quite frankly, simply speechless.
Thanks to Emily for coming up with this stellar headline, which had us all laughing. But she had tough competition, so we had to share some of our favorite runners-up below. Thanks to everyone who chimed in; you guys are hilarious.
From Alex: Good Will Plumping
From Ron: The Talented Mr. Un-Ripped-ly
From Karen: I’m not F’ing Matt Damon!
From Susan: You PROMISE you’ll watch my fries for me???
Matt Damon Defines Summer Style in Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant
It’s time to play everyone’s favorite game, “Rejected Sears model, Amber Alert suspect or Matt Damon in character.” A celeb site ickily called Splash received a batch of open-shirted, pale Damon photos from the set of Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant. We haven’t talked much about the flick on: Damon plays Mark Whitacre, “the highest level executive to turn whistle-blower in U.S. history,” whose prolonged undercover work for the FBI gathering price-fixing evidence against his employer, an agri-biz powerhouse, um, did nothing to help a severe bipolar disorder.
Moreover, Whitacre embezzled millions from his employer while working with the “good guys.” He was released from prison in 2006 after serving more than eight years, and now has a COO position in bio-tech. If you saw the guy pictured here at the hotel pool, such a bizarre narc trajectory would sound about right, no? Scott Bakula will play the main FBI dude in the film, which is a welcome/unpredictable casting choice for a role usually created for Christian Bale. Opening March ‘09, The Informant looks to join notable white collar paranoia thrillers like The Insider, Michael Clayton and Damon’s own The Good Shepherd.
via Gawker
Joel McHale’s Beef Soup
Think we just objectify random celebs, showcasing their half-naked bodies for our own prurient pleasure? Well, we do.
But we also give back. And in the spirit of giving, we offer a half-naked Joel McHale. Our resident hunk is seen here in a very different kind of soupa swimming hole in Oahu, where he is filming The Informant with Matt Damon. (No, the guy in the fish floatie isn’t Damon. McHale’s man-ceps are big, but they’re not dwarf-a-Damon big. We checked.)