Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matt Damon plays astronaut Dr Mark Watney in Ridley Scott's sci-fi tale The Martian. Brits waste hundreds of hours every year ...

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Matt Damon almost left The Martian orbiting someone else's career, convinced audiences would mistake one stranded hero for another, until Ridley Scott dismissed the worry with the calm confidence of a ...

But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...

Matt Damon admits he tried to turn down The Martian because it was too similar to a role he'd already played. Luckily, director Ridley Scott hit him with some sage advice. Looking back on it now, the ...

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Sir Ridley Scott had to convince Matt Damon to star in The Martian. The 55-year-old actor initially rejected playing lead Mark Watney, an astronaut stranded on Mars who tries to survive on the planet ...

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Matt Damon almost passed on the movie that got him his fourth Oscar nomination — and more importantly, he almost missed his chance to work with a venerated filmmaker. “I had just done that part in ...