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...MATT GRENBY...
...School Ties, Matt Damon '92-'93 plays Charlie Dillon, a rich young bigot at a New England prep school. In real life, though, Matt Damon is more like your next-door neighbor. In fact, he just might be: Damon is a senior at Harvard...
...Charlie Dillon is a legacy who feels that he has to live up to his family's expectations that he will be a great quarterback and an honors student. How did Damon prepare for this demanding role? Damon remarked that his Harvard experiences have prepared him for it. Matt said he "know[s] people like [Dillon] who have wealth and power and are fifth generation" here at Harvard, though they are not bigots. He just "tapped into [these] friends" who had felt the pressures of prep school and the sting of bigotry...
...Matt Damon is not Charlie Dillon, a fact he felt compelled to convey to the cast and crew of School Ties. "Growing up where I grew up, the last thing you want to be is a racist." Difficult as saying the hateful lines in the movie was for Damon, the experience taught him that that kind of hatred will never...
...relationships between the three couples--Steve and Linda, Cliff (Matt Dillon) and Janet (Bridget Fonda), and Debbie (Sheila Kelley) and sundry computer dates--meander, heat up, cool down, and plateau...