· Matt Damon is an outspoken political activist, and at the Save Our Schools march in Washington, DC last weekend, he did some outspeaking. When asked a silly question about whether a lack of job security makes him work harder as an actor — a roundabout way of saying that teachers should have less job security themselves — Damon replied, “You think job insecurity is what makes me work hard? It’s not an incentive, I want to be an actor.” Things unravel from there, though — unfortunately — Damon did not regurgitate Gordon Wood in his dress-down. Click through to watch. Your Tuesday Buzz Break is here.
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· Nurse 3D — the most surprising non-porn title since Bad Teacher — has added 30 Rock co-star Katrina Bowden to the cast opposite Paz de la Huerta. Bowden will play a killer nurse, obvs. [Deadline]
· The highest-earning actor in Hollywood just did some more earning. Leonardo DiCaprio film a series of Inception-y ads for Chinese cell phone company Oppo. Make money, money, money, money. [AdWeek]
· Michael Ross will rewrite the futuristic Robin Hood project that Warner Bros. is planning. To answer your question: yes, there is a futuristic Robin Hood project in development. [Deadline]
· The awesome Elizabeth Banks wrote a female comedy script called What About Barb?, about a bride who winds up with a crazy relative as her bridesmaid. Sounds sorta like Bridesmaids, right? It even included a bathroom scene. “[T]he studio execs were like, ‘People don’t want to see girls doing that.’ And I was like, ‘I’m writing from experience!…
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