Matt Damon felt "emotional" reading the Interstellar script.
The 55-year-old actor starred alongside Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Timothee Chalamet and Sir Michael Caine in Interstellar, the 2014 sci-fi movie, and Matt has recalled feeling particularly moved by Sir Christopher Nolan's film script.
Matt - who has Alexia, 27, Isabella, 19, Gia, 17, and Stella, 15, with his wife Luciana - told GQ magazine: "I was so emotional reading this script because I had little kids.
"I was overseas, away from them for two weeks, but I was still away from them. And that script is about losing the entire childhood of your kid. And I remember calling [Nolan] after and going like, ‘What the f*** is it with you about this?’"
Nolan, who has made a concerted effort to keep his private life low-key, could also relate to the movie's script, which tells the story of a group of astronauts who travel through space in search of a new home.
The acclaimed filmmaker said: "The tension is in so many of my films between family and wanting to be with family and having responsibilities outside of that, being pulled outside of that.
"It’s something I relate to very strongly."
Matt also stars in The Odyssey, Nolan's new movie based on Homer's ancient Greek epic, The Odyssey.
The Hollywood actor previously described playing Odysseus in The Odyssey to be the most rewarding experience of his acting career.
Matt - who appears in the film alongside Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron - told TIME magazine: "Movies like this are not getting made anymore.
"To do this without a green screen, the way that David Lean would have done it, I don't know anybody, with the exception of Chris, that's even trying to do that."
Matt has also heaped praise on Nolan, explaining that he wholeheartedly committed himself to the movie.
The actor said: "When you're uncomfortable—and you are most of the time, physically, just by nature of what's required to get these shots—if you turn and look over your shoulder, he's no more than five feet away and doing the same thing without complaint.
"There's something really nice about being a soldier in the foxhole and looking over and the general is right next to you."
