Background actors are pissed with Matt Damon after ‘Bourne 5‘ latest casting call.
After we broke the news that Matt Damon’s new movie Bourne 5 wasn’t going to pay background extras to work on several scenes filming in Las Vegas, the Internet went wild. Fans and background actors have bashed the latest production calling for Matt Damon to forgo his pay on Bourne 5 and use it to pay for the background actors in the movie.
Some people found it hard to believe, while others bashed the film industry for always putting background extras at the bottom of the totem pole.
Here’s a brief look at some of the responses to the latest Bourne 5 casting call:
This is such B.S. this CANNOT be true. #WorkForFreeWithMattDamon ??!! Seriously? https://t.co/LySkCarNES
— William deVry (@WilliamdeVry1) January 5, 2016
Matt Damon can kiss my grits!! “Oh, you don’t need to get paid …. you’ll get credit and publicity” wore off… https://t.co/pELk3iE0s7
— Pamela Glasner (@PamelaGlasner) January 5, 2016
Matt Damon wants extras to work for free in the new Bourne movie. Would you work for free? #bourne #damon #mattdamon
— enCAST (@enCASTit) January 4, 2016
@ProjectCasting pic.twitter.com/IXx6NcL5cf
— J. Emery K. (@The_Majestic) January 4, 2016
It’s interesting to point out that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck both started out as background extras in the movie ‘Field of Dreams’.
Details surrounding the new Bourne 5 movie have not been released however, Matt Damon did share details about Bourne 5. “There’s been the financial collapse, the great recession, all these issues of cyberwarfare and civil liberties,” he told EW. “We find him in a dark and tortured place.”
