Christopher Nolan has established himself as a visionary filmmaker not just by writing brilliant scripts but also by keeping them secret. In a recent interview about The Odyssey, Matt Damon shared an anecdote about the Academy Award winner that highlighted just how protective he was of his Interstellar script.
Matt Damon on the lengths Christopher Nolan went to keep Interstellar script a secret
During his recent appearance on The Rich Eisen Show, Damon disclosed that Nolan had the Interstellar script hand-delivered to him to prevent a leak. “When they contacted me [for Interstellar], I was shooting a movie in Germany with George Clooney called The Monuments Men,” the 55-year-old actor recalled.
“We were in rural Germany. And they said, ‘Chris Nolan’s got a part for you in the movie he’s doing.’ And I said, ‘Can I read the script?’ They said, ‘Sure.’ They sent a guy, a PA, to Germany to hand-carry the script because they wouldn’t send it in the mail.”
He continued, “This kid shows up, and it’s nine o’clock at night, and he goes, ‘Here’s the script.’ And I said, ‘Well, I got to shoot at five in the morning. I’m going to bed right now.’ And he goes, ‘Oh.’ Like it hadn’t occurred to him. And I go, ‘You have to stay here!?’ He goes, ‘I can’t leave the script.’ And I go, ‘Oh, got it – Okay, well, I’m going to be home at, you know, six PM tomorrow night. I will sit down immediately and read the script then, but I can’t read it before then because I got to I really got to work in the morning.'”
Notably, Interstellar was the first Christopher Nolan movie Matt Damon starred in. The duo then collaborated on 2023’s Oppenheimer, and Damon is now starring in Nolan’s The Odyssey.
