There is a long-running discourse that Jesse Plemons and Matt Damon are superstar lookalikes, and Jesse is now weighing in on if he sees the resemblance.
On Tuesday, Jesse appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Stay! to talk about his new movie Sorts of Kindness. Nevertheless, earlier than Jesse received to speaking with Jimmy, he indulged in a skit the place the host’s sidekick, Guillermo, locked him up after mistaking him for Matt Damon.
So, as quickly as Jesse sat down for the interview, it should not be shocking that Jimmy requested him about his resemblance to the actor.
“It has considerably been haunting me for a short time,” Jesse mentioned, recalling when he was mistaken for the actor on the Toronto Movie Competition a few decade in the past.
“This girl requested me, ‘Are you Matt Damon?’ I mentioned, ‘No, I am sorry. I am not.’ And she or he checked out me as if [she was thinking], ‘Wow, Matt Damon is a liar and an asshole.’ I felt dangerous,” Jesse mentioned.
As for if Jesse sees the resemblance, he instructed Jimmy, “It is arduous for me to say. Probably not, no.” He went on to inform a narrative about his aunt, who years in the past known as his mom shortly after seeing the 1997 movie Good Will Searching, which Matt starred in and cowrote with Ben Affleck.
“That is what Jesse is gonna appear like when he will get older,” Jesse recalled his aunt telling his mother about Matt’s look within the movie.
The resemblance is notable sufficient that Jesse even performed Matt’s character, John Grady Cole, as a child within the 2000 movie All of the Fairly Horses. Nevertheless, Jesse’s scenes ended up minimize from the movie.
“I used to be alleged to be the very first scene of the film. We sit down, and I am not there, and I preserve pondering, oh, nicely, [they] might have modified it within the edit. Sat by way of the entire thing, and I by no means confirmed up,” Jesse mentioned.
Happily, it was solely a matter of time earlier than Jesse’s profession blew up, because of his position on Friday Evening Lights. He is been driving excessive ever since, together with with Sorts of Kindness, the place he performs characters throughout three segments. He even gained Greatest Actor on the Cannes Movie Competition in Could.
