I share more in common with Matt Damon than I thought... Damon took to role-playing as a child partly because his mother raised him by the book, which made him feel as though you couldn’t define yourself, because you already had been defined by her. He attended Cambridge Alternative School (now Graham and Parks) and then Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where he was a disciplined student but had a terrifying first two years due to his short height at the time. As a lonely adolescent, Damon has described feeling such pain in wanting to belong somewhere and not belonging. Damon performed as an actor in several high school theater productions; he has credited his drama teacher at Rindge and Latin, Gerry Speca, as an important artistic influence, even though Damon recalls that, Mr. Speca always seemed to trust Ben [Affleck] with the biggest roles and longest speeches. I understand terror, pain and a feeling of not belonging.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 19:50:31 +0000
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