Matt Damon says Steven Spielberg deliberately kept him out of boot camp so the other actors would resent him while filming “Saving Private Ryan”

Q: “Spielberg put everyone in boot camp, but he made you go separate, right?”

Matt Damon: “It was one better than that.”

“He didn’t… pic.twitter.com/Y7LEiqfy69

— agim𓍯 (@aGim_asf) August 10, 2026

They did something similar for Band of Brothers. Put all the officers in nicer trailers and didn't make them condition like the enlisted men.

Matt Damon recalls losing Dead Poets Society then sweeping its theater floors as audiences walked out in tears, thinking, “Fuck, that could’ve been us.”:

"Ben and I ended up that summer working at a movie theater in Cambridge in Harvard Square... and the theater played one… pic.twitter.com/7m3ZQJHneD

— nexa_sama (@nexasama) August 12, 2026

We've heard some crazy stories about Burt Reynolds over the years from people who knew him and worked with him.

He was a very complex man, but definitely interesting and talented! pic.twitter.com/0QfKfjHrzF

— Hollywood Horror Museum (@horrormuseum) August 12, 2026

Bruce Springsteen's sister played the head cheerleader in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Adam Scott’s daughter walked into her first acting class only to watch her teacher play his failed audition for The Office and ask the class why John Krasinski was better.

Adam Scott: "On the first day of one of her acting classes, her teacher gathered everybody and put up a… pic.twitter.com/xF6DrAXfLA

— 👽 (@AlienW3b) August 14, 2026

Sam Raimi and Avi Arad argue about the ideal size of the Spider symbol on Tobey’s suit and then the camera guy proves Raimi’s point 😭 pic.twitter.com/GylgJkidNi

— 🖤 Buy Physical Media 🖤 (@VHSDVDBLURAY4K) August 17, 2026

Patrick Swayze (born on this day) and Marshall R Teague bonded while filming Road House, by literally beating the crap out of each other.
Swayze even tore out his throat on screen.
Off-screen, they became close friends for the rest of Patrick’s life. pic.twitter.com/dOlD2Zcidc

— The Sting (@TheStingisBack) August 18, 2026

When he was a teenager in the late 1930s, Audie Murphy made $1 a day picking cotton in Hunt County, Texas.

In 1949 - four years removed from being hailed as the greatest US solider in World War II - he was the lead role in the Universal Studios movie "Bad Body". It was such a big hit that Universal signed him to a 7-year contract in which they paid him $2,500 a week - equivalent to $35,000 a week now or about $12.7 million over the length of the contract.

Jamie Foxx tells Keke Palmer WILD Django Unchained stories about the INSANE AURA Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson had on set, from wearing 4-INCH lifts just to be taller than Leo to watching Samuel instantly SWITCH UP between takes and even PRESS DiCaprio to fully commit… pic.twitter.com/GcfG11f0DI

— Killa 🌺 (@KillaKreww) August 25, 2026

Okay, this is one's even better. His impressions are AMAZING…

Keke Palmer couldn’t stop LAUGHING at Jamie Foxx doing HILARIOUS impressions of Will Smith and Idris Elba refusing the role of Django Unchained because it was too GORY for them, while telling the story of how he got the role by showing up to Quentin Tarantino’s house with his OWN… pic.twitter.com/lxVMk1lnGj

— Killa 🌺 (@KillaKreww) August 25, 2026

I had the same takeaway. I don't really know her, but she was pretty insufferable in those clips. Jamie (Eric Bishop) was great though.

Oh come on. Keke's reactions/enthusiasm are part of what make the clips so funny.

Those Foxx clips are great.

El actor #LeonardoDiCaprio contando cuál fue su inspiración para la genial secuencia del coche de #TheWolfOfWallStreet MARAVILLA 😅😅 pic.twitter.com/oqdujDpC4Z

— Doctor Frusna (@doctorfrusna) August 26, 2026

I've been interviewing people for 25 years and this is my all-time favorite moment. Completely hypnotizing. https://t.co/Sx9Wrog9eU

— Alan Siegel (@AlanSiegelLA) August 27, 2026

TC, your boy is making an ass of himself on X.

Complaining? I wasn't complaining. That was a threat! Engage.. or don't, and be subjected to non-stop rumors. Believe me, I'd love to continue being ignored so I can say whatever I want. It's proven to be very lucrative for me. Side Note: How can I get biceps like you? Jealous!

— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) September 3, 2026

I've honestly never liked this guy much, but this pretty much confirms he's kind of a POS.

Yeah, he's not "my boy." I employed him for a couple years, but otherwise haven't spoken to him since 2018. Second, I've only ever defended his skills and accuracy and journalist, not his tendency to get caught up in crap like this. Though, I will say, in person, he's way more chill and considerate than he is on social media. He was also sitting in my office the day he got a phone call that his mom was about to pass away, he had to leave immediately to try and make it cross-country before she was gone, and I've just always had a soft spot for him, witnessing that, knowing that he lost her at a relatively young age.

That said, Jeff definitely has anger issues and is absolutely coming across like petulant child right now. Still, that whole thing is so incredibly overblown and in no way "confirms" that he's a POS.

He basically said to Inde Navarrette's representatives, "Look, if you don't want to comment on a casting story I'm looking to publish about your client, fine. But if you're not going to comment from here on out, or pay me the common courtesy of responding, I no longer have a responsibility to reach out to you before running all of the other casting rumors/stories I know about her."

That's what he was saying.

But then all these ridiculous social media justice warriors, who have no clue how the industry works, or what he's saying, took it to mean he's threatening a young actress' career by "exposing" her or "bullying" her or whatever insane cancel culture nonsense. And then, because he's a hot head, he just makes it worse by responding to each and every one of them.

I'll put it this way... he's wrong to respond to the pearl-clutchers in the way he is, but not wrong in his approach to Navarrette's reps. Granted, he should just shut the hell up and not air any of this on Twitter, but that's just who he is at this point.

He himself said it was a threat.

Also, that was just me poking fun at the situation and in no way trying to throw you under the bus by association, if that's how it came across. No need to get defensive.

Yes, he was threatening her REPS with the "threat" of... no longer paying them the courtesy of getting their side of the story before running casting stories on her.

Which is hardly a "threat" worthy of all of this ridiculous discourse.

It's utterly innocuous, and all just so stupid and overblown, perpetuated by a bunch of clueless, purity-test-obsessed pearl-clutchers (and yes, Jeff himself via his needless responses).

Either way, I promise you her reps have said FAR worse to people. Agents, publicists, etc... they're the worst of the worst when it comes to this kind of **** in Hollywood.

Like you said though, it's coming across like he's a petulant child who's not getting his way and he's throwing a tantrum about it.

Nobody owes these guys anything, but they sure seem to think they do.

Journalists have relationships with every studio, production company, and agency in town. A journalist gets wind of some news via a source - casting talks, a new project, whatever - he/she almost always reaches out to said studio, production company, or agency first about said news. The journalist will either try to get confirmation or a quote (both rare), or the company/agency on the other end will ask the journalist to hold publishing said news in exchange for an exclusive on something else later, etc. It's a whole back-and-forth relationship, and rarely do the companies/agencies just completely ghost/ignore the journalist. At the very least they'll respond with a "no comment" or whatever.

So, when Navarrette's reps wouldn't even pay Jeff the common courtesy of a response, he essentially said fine, I'm going to ignore you from now on as well, and just publish whatever casting news I have. To me, that's a perfectly valid response. Hell, I don't even blame him for airing his grievance on social media. Where he ****ed up is that he should have worded his tweet slightly better, and then he shouldn't have been so ridiculously defensive in the wake. And where social media ****ed up is misinterpreting his grievance, then running with it as some kind of #MeToo attack, without taking two seconds to first to try and understand the actual issue.

IMO, both sides are acting like children.

It hurts to be called a fraud when you aren't.

— Elizabeth Holmes (@ElizabethHolmes) September 7, 2026

Not sure how she would know.

But I can go ask her if you want. She's about 20 minutes from me.

Pretty cool if you like the movie Signs.

Okay, this story about Sam Worthington meeting James Cameron is WILD 😂

He talks about getting to a point where he’d been working in Australia for 8–9 years and basically was told by Russell Crowe to use that to be America ready.

So Sam sold everything he owned. He was… pic.twitter.com/nxgvcZYFAV

— Larry Conger 🇺🇸 (@eMTBrides) September 13, 2026

(Warning, this will ruin the "Tobey caught everything on the lunch tray and it took 156 takes" scene for you.)

WAIT… TOM HANKS ACTUALLY REMEMBERED THIS GUY FROM SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.

That is the moment this red-chair story suddenly becomes something completely different.

Adam Shaw walks onto The Graham Norton Show with a ridiculous story about getting his first acting job on Saving… pic.twitter.com/qvmxdBUf3N

— peanut butter movies 🌹 (@its_edikan) September 25, 2026

Me alucina como Alec Baldwin transforma su cara por completo y se convierte en Robert De Niro.

Sigo sin entender cómo es capaz de hacerlo. pic.twitter.com/Rnch4QZKVh

— R E P L I C A N T (@Roybattyforever) September 25, 2026

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I'm blown away by how Alec Baldwin completely transforms his face and turns into Robert De Niro.

I still can't wrap my head around how he manages to do it.

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Tom Cruise: I do my own stunts
Bug: hold my beer bitch pic.twitter.com/hiYuE7Xurq

— more_meat_loaf (@more_meat_loaf) September 25, 2026