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1. www.vanityfair.com › 2021 › 07Matt Damon on the Unlikely Muse Behind His - Vanity Fair

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   Jul 29, 2021 · He was riding the wave of Bill Baker.” (According to Baker, Damon and McCarthy were so inspired by him that they changed the surname of Damon’s Stillwater character from “Swartsky or...

2. www.ft.com › content › d1c172c7-2aa5-4f1f-8af8-eb17Matt Damon and Tom McCarthy on why Stillwater runs deep

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   Aug 5, 2021 · Matt Damon, he says, was always an obvious choice to play Bill Baker. “Early on, we knew we were going to play with the perception of the American hero and what that meant, and America’s moral...

3. movieweb.com › is-stillwater-based-on-a-true-storyHow Much of Stillwater Is Actually Based on Amanda Knox?

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   Jan 23, 2024 · Loosely based on the true story of Amanda Knox, the story follows Bill Baker (Matt Damon), a blue-collar father from Stillwater, Oklahoma, who ventures to France to visit his daughter Allison...

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4. www.monstersandcritics.com › movies › stillwater-isStillwater: Is the movie based on a true story?

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   May 12, 2021 · Stillwater features Oscar winner Matt Damon in the role of Bill Baker, a roughneck Oklahoma oil worker. Upon finding out his estranged daughter Allison (Abigail Breslin) was arrested in France...

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5. www.goodmorningamerica.com › culture › storyReview: 'Stillwater' a deeply personal human drama disguised ...

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   Jul 30, 2021 · As Bill Baker, a widowed oil-rigger and ex-con from Stillwater, Oklahoma, Damon is barely recognizable. Thickly muscled under a beat-up cap, with a goatee and a clenched, “yes ma’am” politeness, this good ol' boy hides an intensity that makes him look coiled to spring.

6. screenrant.com › matt-damon-interview-stillwaterMatt Damon Interview: Stillwater - Screen Rant

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   Jul 30, 2021 · Damon spoke to Screen Rant about what drew him to the role and the research he underwent to take it on. Screen Rant: We really don't see films like Stillwater in theaters anymore, and you really disappear into the character of Bill Baker. What was it about the project that really caught your attention?

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   Was Damon really riding the wave of Bill Baker?

   • He was riding the wave of Bill Baker.” (According to Baker, Damon and McCarthy were so inspired by him that they changed the surname of Damon’s Stillwater character from “Swartsky or something” to Baker as an apparent homage.) Damon approached his Stillwater physical transformation “almost analytically,” he tells me.

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   Who plays Bill Baker in Stillwater?

   • Matt Damon plays the role of Bill Baker in Stillwater. He is an Oklahoma oil worker who travels to France when he learns that his estranged daughter Allison (Abigail Breslin) has been arrested for murder.

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   Did Damon ever go to France with Bill Baker?

   • The internal side you take with you everywhere goes with you anyway. It’s all your emotions.” Damon disappeared into the role of Bill so much that McCarthy jokes that he was never in France with Damon—he was there with Bill Baker. Damon, meanwhile, says that he was able to move around pretty much undetected as Bill while filming abroad.

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   Who is Matt Damon in 'Stillwater' 2021?

   • Matt Damon and Lilou Siauvaud in "Stillwater," 2021. As Bill Baker, a widowed oil-rigger and ex-con from Stillwater, Oklahoma, Damon is barely recognizable. Thickly muscled under a beat-up cap, with a goatee and a clenched, “yes ma’am” politeness, this good ol' boy hides an intensity that makes him look coiled to spring.

   Review: 'Stillwater' a deeply personal human drama disguised as a crime

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   Who is Bill Baker?

   • One of them, Kenny Baker, was so influential in Damon's portrayal that they named his character, Bill Baker, after him. The two have kept in touch, and on the day Damon is speaking to EW, Baker is slated to see the film for the first time. "I was with him on Saturday night, out way too late," Damon says.

   Matt Damon on what he learned shadowing roughnecks for Stillwater

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   Why did Matt Damon go to Oklahoma?

   • The actor tells Vanity Fair about his trip to Oklahoma to prepare for his new film Stillwater, out in theaters Friday. By Jessica Forde/Focus Features. A few years ago, Matt Damon showed up in Marlow, Oklahoma, to shadow real-life oil riggers.

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8. ew.com › movies › matt-damon-abigail-breslinMatt Damon on what he learned shadowing roughnecks for Stillwater

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   Jul 29, 2021 · Matt Damon is nervous, but it's probably not what you think. He spent several weeks before the filming of his new movie, Stillwater, in the titular Oklahoma city learning from real roughnecks —...