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Film Courage: Do you remember the first time you met Matt Damon?
Blayne Weaver, Actor/Screenwriter/Producer/Director: Oh wow! The first time I met him was when I was filming a movie at 18 years old. It was the first job that I’d been able to do without my mom traveling with me. I went by myself to West Texas and to Alpine, Texas which is a small town now but in 1994 was a much smaller town apparently. I was staying in a Motel 6 and I met the guy who was going to play my older brother who was Matt Damon, who I didn’t know from anything. He wasn’t famous to me, he was just a guy and he was very kind to me and I think 25-26. You know what it’s like when you’re 26 and you have to hang out with this 18 year old but he did. He was very cool and the movie is called The Good Old Boys. It was directed by Tommy Lee Jones. It stars Frances McDormand and Terry Kinney and Sam Shepard and Wilford Brimley and all of these big, huge names. Matt was kind enough to kind of let me tag along with him through his conversations with these people because I was a neophyte at the very least.
I remember one of the things that really stands out to me as we were at dinner with Sam Shepard and I knew Sam Shepard from The Right Stuff or The Pelican Brief really is more accurate from what I knew him from at the time, but Matt was like Wow, I saw your new show on Broadway and it just amazing. And I was like Oh, you write plays? And man, it was like Just shut up and you might learn something, okay. These are amazing people that were around. He was great and he actually was kind of the inspiration for me starting to write because he and Ben were working on Goodwill Hunting at the time and they were faxing back and forth notes to each other…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Actor/Writer/Filmmaker Blayne Weaver most recently directed the romantic comedy MISS VALENTINE and wrote the partier comedy PRETTY STONED for MTV. Other recent works include directing the holiday romance CUPID FOR CHRISTMAS for Hulu, writing & directing the horror GetAWAY and co-writing the raucous comedy AMERICAN PIE: GIRLS’ RULES for Netflix. He previously wrote, directed and starred in the Southern Noir Thriller CUT TO THE CHASE and the acclaimed romantic comedy 6 MONTH RULE (alongside Martin Starr, Natalie Morales and John Michael Higgins). Previous films he’s written and directed include WEATHER GIRL (with Tricia O’Kelley, Mark Harmon, Jon Cryer and Jane Lynch) and OUTSIDE SALES. He also co-wrote and acted in MANIC (Don Cheadle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel), directed by Jordan Melamed, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He starred in writer/director Paul Osborne’s psychological thriller FAVOR and has appeared in such films as JUNK, DEEP DARK CANYON, OFFICIAL REJECTION and THE GOOD OLD BOYS opposite Tommy Lee Jones. His numerous episodic television credits include ER, NCIS, and THE MIDDLEMAN. He also provided the voice of Peter Pan in the Disney animated feature RETURN TO NEVER LAND. A native of Bossier City, Louisiana, Blayne has studied acting in New York, Los Angeles, Oxford University and graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature. He currently runs the West Coast office of Secret Identity Pictures.
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