![]() ![]() People don’t think about that, they think, ‘Oh, you get to train Matt Damon!’ but these things have to be carefully thought out and implemented.” “Matt’s a multi-million-dollar actor, and if he gets hurt because of training… it’s a lot of pressure. ![]() “We’ve worked a lot on keeping his flexibility and mobility – the last thing you want to do is lose them when you’re doing strength training, because you’ll get injured a lot faster,” says Walsh. While Daniel Craig’s first shirt-off scene as Bond was a beachfront homage to Ursula Andress in Dr No, Damon’s, as a bare-knuckle brawler, owes more to Tyler Durden by way of Rambo III. The new Bourne is an older, wiser man, certainly, but he hasn’t lost a step on the new generation of secret agents – the 21st-century Bond included. RECOMMENDED: 12 Physical Challenges Everyone in Their 40s Should Be Able To Do I was on a very strict diet and spent a lot of time in the gym just making myself miserable.” ![]() We shot this bare-knuckle fighting scene on my 45th birthday and it was a lot of work to get there. “For the first Bourne movie I was 29 and I thought that was hard work getting into shape,” Damon told the BBC in an interview. So my primary focus was to make sure he was resilient and strong, to make it through them without getting injured, so we could get to Bourne and really ramp things up.”Īnd ramp it up they did. My main goal was just to keep him healthy, because those roles were pretty physical, and… well, I don’t know a lot of actors who work as hard as Matt does. “It was difficult to make sure it didn’t detract from his other roles. “Matt worked on two movies, so we had one or two weeks, tops, between the movies,” Walsh says. When Damon was ready to return to Bourne shape, time was short. ![]() #JASON BOURNE SEQUEL MOVIE#He was in great shape for that movie – we got him super-strong.” “In The Martian he was a scientist but he was also an astronaut, and they have rigorous training, so he had to look like he was ready to withstand the pressures of space travel. “Matt and I have trained together for a while,” says Walsh, who’s also trained aspiring American footballers for the NFL Combine, a week-long test of their physical attributes. For a while, it looked like Damon was out for good – but fans of the franchise didn’t see it that way. It’s easy to forget how the first Bourne movies fundamentally reinvented the spy flick, ramping the grittiness up to 11 (and forcing Bond and Mission: Impossible to do the same or look cartoonish by comparison) – especially since this is Damon’s first appearance in the franchise in nearly a decade after he sat out 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, which featured Jeremy Renner as rogue agent Aaron Cross. This summer sees the release of Jason Bourne, which sees the amnesiac assassin still searching for answers about his past, and hunted again by the government agents. Matt is a surprisingly good runner.”Īnd now he’s back. “When we were in Tenerife, training for the new Bourne, we did a lot of running up some pretty damn steep hills – a lot of the cyclists train for mountain climbing around there, and we were running up the same hills they cycle. “Yeah, Matt could probably do that in real life,” says Jason Walsh, Damon’s long-time trainer and no stranger to cardio himself. ![]()
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