Matt Damon Says Training for New Bourne Movie Was 'Brutal'

Matt Damon steps out on the set of his movie Downsizing on Thursday (April 21) in Toronto, Canada.

The 45-year-old actor’s new movie Jason Bourne will be released this summer and he is opening up about the “brutal” training process.

“For the first Bourne movie I was 29 and I thought that was hard work getting into shape,” Matt told BBC. “Now I’m 45 and it’s just brutal. We shot this bare-knuckle fighting scene on my 45th birthday and it was a lot of work to get there. I was on a very strict diet and spent a lot of time in the gym just making myself miserable.”

“So maybe for the next one Jason Bourne will be fat and happy and old!” he jokingly added.