Matt Damon has revealed that his jaw dropped when he read the script for his latest movie The Informant and discovered what whistleblower Mark Whitacre got himself caught up in.
Damon has teamed up with Ocean's Eleven filmmaker Steven Soderbergh for his new movie that follows Whitacre as he blows the whistle on his company's price fixing to the FBI while embezzling money from them at the same time.
In an interview with Parade the actor said: "Reading the book and the script, my jaw was on the floor. You can't make these things up. It was a whistleblower story unlike any I'd ever heard.
"This guy was doing these incredibly courageous things, wearing a wire and gathering all of this information about price fixing. At the same time he was embezzling money from the company he was exposing and the FBI had no idea."
"The funny part is that he was a brilliant executive on the rise. But he was battling his own kind of mental health issues. He couldn't help himself.
"Even predating this whole story, he was telling people that he was adopted by a family after his parents had died in an automobile accident and none of it was true."
The Informant has done well on the festival circuit so far playing at Toronto and Venice in recent weeks. The film has been well reviewed and is already surrounded in Oscar talk for Damon's central performance.
The Informant is released 20th November
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