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...need to be butch! Butcher and more intense." That's darned good advice for an NFL lineman, a carjacker ... or an action-movie star forced to start filming while awaiting pivotal script pages. It was Paul Greengrass's direction for Matt Damon when they commenced shooting this summer's globe-galloping thriller The Bourne Ultimatum without a finished screenplay. "I didn't know where I had come from. I didn't know where I was going--which are things you really need to know as an actor," says Damon, who reprises his role as conflicted assassin Jason Bourne...
...Paul and Matt are joining the ranks of Marty and Leo, Pedro and Penélope, Quentin and Uma--modern pairs of directors and actors who find they speak a common language and choose to do it again and again onscreen. The Bourne movies, unlike most meticulously planned and elaborately staged action pictures, are filmed guerrilla-style in the chaos of the urban world, a process that demands more than the usual team mentality. "It's like going to war," Greengrass says. "Who's going to be there? You want to know that someone's there every step...
...keep moving. "We were losing the light, and I was walking through this little tunnel," Damon remembers. He tried to position his arm in a way that would help the cameraman get his shot in time. "I didn't want to hold my bloody fingers below his frame. Paul came running over and said, 'No, no, no, absolutely not! Do it as you would naturally do it! Even if we miss it, we'll know what it was.' As an actor, that's like air. That's somebody saying 'I'm committed to capturing what you do naturally...
...into the film. Such as? "It would be like carrying a pile of s___ in here and saying 'Look what we almost stepped in,'" he says. "When you have all this machinery and the clock is ticking and the dollars are just going out the window, most people panic. Paul says, 'All right, we're in a hole right now, and everybody needs to put down the shovel...
...critics claimed he didn't take a stand on tough issues. Yet Patriarch Teoctist, head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, won fans and made history when Pope John Paul II visited Romania in 1999 at his request. It was the first invitation by an Orthodox Church leader to a Catholic Pope since the churches split...