Thanks to his lead role in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, which hits theaters this week, a Matt Damon skin has come to Fortnite.
The news led us to wonder if Damon had ever appeared in a videogame before. No, as far as I can tell, but he did get close-ish when he was asked to lend his likeness to The Bourne Conspiracy, a 2008 console game based on the novels behind the film series he starred in.
Damon rejected the offer for the endearing reason that they wouldn’t make the violent action game—which is what you’d expect from a Bourne game—more like classic puzzle-adventure game Myst.
“I lobbied hard to not make a first-person shooter game but to make it more like Myst, which was a great interesting puzzle you tried to solve—you know, to play with his amnesia or his memory,” Damon said in a 2008 interview with The Boston Globe. “They weren’t interested. They made the video[game] anyway, without my likeness.”