Matt Damon explains why Donald Trump appeared in so many ‘90s movies
Film directors who wanted to shoot a scene on a Donald Trump property had to brace themselves for a required cameo from the mogul himself.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Friday, Matt Damon revealed that while he hasn’t met Trump yet, the 71-year-old former Celebrity Apprentice host allegedly required a walk-on-role every time a film’s camera rolled within something he owned, reports the People magazine.
‘The deal was that if you wanted to shoot in one of his buildings, you had to write him in a part,’ Damon, 46, claimed. ‘[Director] Martin Brest had to write something in Scent of a Woman — and the whole crew was in on it. You have to waste an hour of your day with a bulls— shot. Donald Trump walks in and Al Pacino’s like, ‘Hello, Mr. Trump!’ — you had to call him by name — and then he exits.’
However, just because Trump was filmed didn’t allegedly mean he made the final cut.
‘You waste a little time so that you can get the permit, and then you can cut the scene out,’ Damon claimed — immediately checking himself for 1992’s Home Alone 2, in which Trump did appear. ‘I guess in Home Alone 2 they left it in.’
Watch Donald Trump appear in an array of films and shows below.
In the most recent push against Trump, Bastille dedicated their song ‘The Currents’ to Donald Trump during their Reading Festival performance.
‘This song is dedicated to a giant, orange baby,’ said frontman Dan Smith by way of introduction to the ‘Wild World’ track. During the song he changed the lyrics to ask ‘Why won’t Trump stop firing up the crazies?’