Matt Damon has approximately 25 lines total in the upcoming Jason Bourne film. Reprising his role as the titular character, Damon speaks a short amount of time, meaning more action and less dialogue, at least for him. The last film with Damon and director Paul Greengrass was back in 2007. After putting the film through the editing process, Greengrass realized Damon speaks rarely throughout the film. Damon’s has no problem with shorter lines, stating:
“Well, I’ve done it three times. In the first movie, the Marie Kreutz character [Bourne’s girlfriend, played by Franka Potente) is still alive, so Bourne has a sounding board and he’s more confused about who he is and a lot more chatty. Once she dies in the first act of the second movie, it’s really a very lonely character. And we talked about that mostly on the second one. I remember Tony writing me an email saying, ‘You do realise what this means? You do realise you’re not going to talk in this movie.’ I said, ‘No, I love that.”
