Damon Is 'Stuck' With Stardom

In the new film "Stuck On You," Matt Damon plays a conjoined twin, who is literally stuck to Greg Kinnear.

When the Farrelly brothers originally pitched Damon a role in the broad comedy, he balked. But the brothers quickly won him over.

"It was something totally different from anything I'd ever done," Damon says. "[The Farrelly brothers are] great guys. They took me out to dinner and they were telling me about how they wanted to make the movie."

After dinner, Damon invited the brothers to his New York City apartment to discuss the film some more.

"So, we're sitting around, having a beer, and Pete Farley says to me, 'You mind if I use your bathroom?'" Damon recalls. "About two minutes later, he comes out soaking wet with a towel around his waist and shampoo in his hair. And he just walks right up to me, dripping all over the living room. And he just goes, 'You got any conditioner?' So I figured at that point, it was the kind of, 'You had me at hello moment.'"

For the movie, Damon had to get accustomed to losing his personal space because he was stuck to Greg Kinnear for the majority of time on the set.

"I was saying to Greg yesterday that I remember picking out the color of the drapes that he and his wife were talking about for their house," Damon laughs. "You just can't help but be in the conversation."

Being stuck to someone for the majority of the day could cause other problems. But, the actor says, all personal hygiene issues were a matter of common knowledge.

"Luckily, Greg is basically a hypochondriac," Damon says. "He's constantly re-cleaning his hands. There were no secrets for those three months."

From his days growing up in Boston with buddy Ben Affleck, Damon says his goal has been to be a working actor. Since his film debut in 1988's "Mystic Pizza," his choices have been in hopes of career longevity.

"It was never a paycheck for me; it really wasn't," he says. "I'm paid way more then I ever thought I would be. It was a career choice."

As kids, Damon and Affleck lived within close distance to each other, and both had aspirations to act in films.

"I think in that friendship, kind of through our teenage years, we were enabling each other just because we both had a common goal," Damon says. "We were really obsessed about it in the way that teenagers can be obsessed about things."

Early in their rise to stardom, some may have thought Damon and Affleck were conjoined. But, that is not so today.

"It's just become hard logistically for us to find time, Damon says. " I think we over-romanticize the past and look back and go, 'Boy, wasn't those the good 'ole days.' But, there is some level of truth to that. Things were a lot simpler then."

Today, according to some people, Affleck's dating life has become even more interesting than the movies he made. Damon says he's glad he isn't in his friend's shoes.

"I think he would be the first to tell you that kind of spotlight is not something he ever wanted," Damon says. "He's the first one out there banging the drum going, 'Please stop, take me off. I'm sick of myself.'"

Damon has just started filming the sequel to last year's "The Bourne Identity." That film took in over $200 million worldwide at the box office and was a career-changing hit for Damon.

"It was hard work and really rewarding," the actor remembers. "Within the industry, nobody saw it coming."

After working on the stage in London, Damon returned home and found dozens of phone calls with movie offers because of the commercial success of "The Bourne Identity."

"That was how fast that movie changed my life," Damon says. "It was over the course of a weekend."