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

I've been listening to Paul Sheer's Unspooled podcast and a few weeks ago they did Drive which was originally supposed to be a full on Fast and Furious style action movie with Hugh Jackman and Neil Marshall directing. Eventually Ryan Gosling was attached and recommended Nicolas Winding Refn to direct.

Supposedly nothing went right about the first dinner meeting they had together. Like the movie was not happening when things were wrapping up at least with Refn directing. On top of that Refn asked Gosling for a ride to somewhere like Pasadena which was nearly an hour from where there were. The car ride was just as awkward. To try and make things less awkward Ryan Gosling cranked the radio all the way up and they didn't speak a word to each other. At the end of the ride Refn had the idea to completely change the tone and ultimately the entire genre of the movie and pitched it to Gosling. That's how Drive came about.

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.