Reports claim Damon made roughly the same amount for The Bourne Ultimatum as he did for Supremacy, and the amount of words he uttered stayed about the same as well, though a solid chunk of them came out at rapid-fire succession when Bourne was trying to meet up with a journalist named David Ross in a busy terminal in London, England. MORE: Matt Damon's Wife's Legs Steal the Show at the Jason Bourne Premiere
Damon's chit-chat was slashed almost exactly in half, coming in at 118, meaning he earned more five times his per-line payment in The Bourne Identity with $220,339 for movie two. Due to that whole floating in a green ocean thing and a lot of exposition from Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) and her government co-workers, it took the actor until just past the 39-minute mark to get through 25 chunks of dialogue.īut that's not what you really want to know, right? In 2007, Forbes reported that Damon took home a $26 million paycheck for Supremacy. This time, however, we heard even more German and even a little Russian, but we also lost Marie (Potente) very early on, so really, didn't we kind of lose out?ĭamon speaks roughly 23 lines until (spoiler, 12 years later) Marie gets shot around the 17-minute mark. The action-to-dialogue ratio really amped up in the franchise's sophomore outing, proving that Damon's Bourne fits the mold of action heroes being men of few words.
Admittedly, this is semi-subjective, because dialogue breaks aren't always black-and-white. It was tough work, but somebody had to do the math. So for you, dear reader, we went back and watched each one, painstakingly counting every line that came out of Jason Bourne's mouth.
We know that it takes an insane diet and exercise routine, plus stamina we can't begin to fathom, to pull off even the simplest stunts in any given Bourne movie, but we still have just one word for his per-word (25 or 45!) take-home prize: Damn.Īs mind-boggling as this haul is, we couldn't help but wonder what Damon made per line for his first three Bourne films (sorry, Damon-less The Bourne Legacy). NEWS: Matt Damon Gets Candid on Tacos, Ben Affleck and the Late Robin Williams in Reddit AMA Session That means that the father of four took in a cool $1 million per line of dialogue. "For any young actor out there, they should know that it's not the number of lines you have, ever," he added.Īpologies, but right now, it is all about how many lines right now! The best guess is that Damon made at least $25 million for Jason Bourne, based on his salary for The Martian, as per Vanity Fair, and those estimated $26 million turns in The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.