Today we have several bits of information about "True Grit," that has become the highest-grossing film ($90 million) by the Coen brothers. In the credits of the film, Buster Coen is credited as "Mr. Damon's Abs Double." Buster is the 15-year-old son of director Ethan Coen. During a recent press conference, Damon was asked about the bizarre credit, considering that Damon's abs are never shown in the movie. Damon said that Buster served as an assistant to the script supervisor during the making of "True Grit," but wanted a more important-sounding credit. He ended up requesting to be listed as "Mr. Damon's Abs Double," and his father gave it to him. We also have a video of 13-year-old Hailee Stenfeld, who was picked from more than 15,000 girls to star in the film. The video is of a 2009 K-Mart commercial that she appeared in. Check it out below. K-Mart Commercial:...
- 1/5/2011
- WorstPreviews.com
Is True Grit going to be the new The Big Lebowski, inspiring fan gatherings all over the country? Probably not, but on the eve of the opening of Joel and Ethan Coen's new version of True Grit, hundreds of people gathered in front of Judge Parker's gallows at Fort Smith, Arkansas to partially recreate the classic showdown between Marshall 'Rooster' Cogburn and Lucky Ned Pepper. Watch video of the unusual gathering after the break. And, as a bonus, get the truth about the most curious credit in the film: Matt Damon's Abs Double. Here's the video of Gritapalooza, via In Contention [1]. Seeing all those people perform the dialogue in unison is almost like seeing True Grit: The Musical. Hmm... From the YouTube posting comes this explanation: Fort Smith, Arkansas is the setting and inspiration for True Grit, so on the eve of the new Coen Brothers' release,...
- 1/5/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Hopefully when you go to see True Grit you walk away thinking about the quality of the performances, the beautiful score and cinematography, or at least trying to decipher the garbled dialogue coming from Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn. But if you were paying close attention to the credits you may have noticed a particularly strange one: "Mr. Damon's Abs Double" credited to one Buster Coen. Wait, but did Matt Damon ever take his shirt off? And is Buster somehow related to the brother directors of the movie? The answers are "no" and "yes," as learned by Scott Feinberg at a Q&A for the movie last month. He asked about the mysterious credit, and got the following answer from a laughing Damon: Ethan.s 15-year-old son Buster had served as an assistant to the script supervisor on the set during the making of the film, but had indicated that...
- 1/4/2011
- cinemablend.com
If you've seen True Grit, you probably had a few things on your mind after the movie. One was probably concerning that member of Ned Pepper's gang who had an...unusual way of communicating. Another, if you stayed through the credits, was why exactly did Matt Damon have an "Ab Double?" A Buster Coen was credited in the film as "Mr. Damon's Ab Double" even though Damon's Laboeuf is never seen shirtless. So what gives? At a recent True Grit Q&A, Damon was asked...
- 1/4/2011
- by Mike Sampson
- JoBlo.com
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
Though the original post is over a month old and dated back to when 'True Grit' first began screening for critics, for some reason this little behind-the-scenes nugget is just making the rounds now, probably because the story's author, Scott Feinberg, snuck in the tidbit at the very end of his article. So it goes like this: During the end credits of 'True Grit', Feinberg noticed a credit given to a Buster Coen for being Matt Damon's Abs Double.
Seems strange since you don't see Matt Damon's abs in the film, especially because they're covered up in layers of Texas Ranger clothing, and so during a post-screening Q&A Feinberg asked Damon what was up with the credit. Turns out Ethan Coen's 15-year-old son Buster had helped out on the film serving as an assistant to the script supervisor,...
Though the original post is over a month old and dated back to when 'True Grit' first began screening for critics, for some reason this little behind-the-scenes nugget is just making the rounds now, probably because the story's author, Scott Feinberg, snuck in the tidbit at the very end of his article. So it goes like this: During the end credits of 'True Grit', Feinberg noticed a credit given to a Buster Coen for being Matt Damon's Abs Double.
Seems strange since you don't see Matt Damon's abs in the film, especially because they're covered up in layers of Texas Ranger clothing, and so during a post-screening Q&A Feinberg asked Damon what was up with the credit. Turns out Ethan Coen's 15-year-old son Buster had helped out on the film serving as an assistant to the script supervisor,...
- 1/4/2011
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
Though the original post is over a month old and dated back to when 'True Grit' first began screening for critics, for some reason this little behind-the-scenes nugget is just making the rounds now, probably because the story's author, Scott Feinberg, snuck in the tidbit at the very end of his article. So it goes like this: During the end credits of 'True Grit', Feinberg noticed a credit given to a Buster Coen for being Matt Damon's Abs Double.
Seems strange since you don't see Matt Damon's abs in the film, especially because they're covered up in layers of Texas Ranger clothing, and so during a post-screening Q&A Feinberg asked Damon what was up with the credit. Turns out Ethan Coen's 15-year-old son Buster had helped out on the film serving as an assistant to the script supervisor,...
Though the original post is over a month old and dated back to when 'True Grit' first began screening for critics, for some reason this little behind-the-scenes nugget is just making the rounds now, probably because the story's author, Scott Feinberg, snuck in the tidbit at the very end of his article. So it goes like this: During the end credits of 'True Grit', Feinberg noticed a credit given to a Buster Coen for being Matt Damon's Abs Double.
Seems strange since you don't see Matt Damon's abs in the film, especially because they're covered up in layers of Texas Ranger clothing, and so during a post-screening Q&A Feinberg asked Damon what was up with the credit. Turns out Ethan Coen's 15-year-old son Buster had helped out on the film serving as an assistant to the script supervisor,...
- 1/4/2011
- by Erik Davis
- Moviefone
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen’s “True Grit” (Paramount, 12/25, PG-13, trailer) was, along with James L. Brooks’s “How Do You Know” (Columbia, 12/17, R, trailer), one of the last two major awards hopefuls to be unveiled — that is, until Saturday night, when it was screened for journalists on both coasts for the first time.
Reactions were strictly embargoed until now for reasons that I don’t entirely understand, since the news is virtually all good. Mine — as reflected in my latest updated projections — are these:
The Coen brothers — 53 and 56, respectively — have added yet another classic to their impressive filmography, and it just happens to be the best (true) Western since “Unforgiven” (1992), which won the best picture Oscar. Roger Deakins’s cinematography is, as always, extraordinary, and somewhat reminiscent of his Oscar nominated work on “No Country for Old Men” (2007), so perhaps the Academy will finally get their act together and...
Reactions were strictly embargoed until now for reasons that I don’t entirely understand, since the news is virtually all good. Mine — as reflected in my latest updated projections — are these:
The Coen brothers — 53 and 56, respectively — have added yet another classic to their impressive filmography, and it just happens to be the best (true) Western since “Unforgiven” (1992), which won the best picture Oscar. Roger Deakins’s cinematography is, as always, extraordinary, and somewhat reminiscent of his Oscar nominated work on “No Country for Old Men” (2007), so perhaps the Academy will finally get their act together and...
- 12/1/2010
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
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