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00:00 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
00:01 - Engage!
00:01 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:04 [GRUNTING]
00:07 [CROWD CHEERING]
00:10 - It's a very rough game, and the guys who play it
00:18 are a special breed of cat.
00:20 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:22 [WHISTLE BLOWING]
00:23 - They say in England that soccer
00:24 is the gentleman's game played by hooligans,
00:26 and rugby is the hooligan's game played by gentlemen.
00:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:31 [CROWD CHEERING]
00:32 - It's about running as hard and as fast as you can,
00:34 putting people into space, and scoring against the opposition.
00:38 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:40 [WHISTLE BLOWING]
00:41 And whoever scores the most points wins the game.
00:44 - You know, this game is kind of, you know, thuggish.
00:46 [LAUGHS]
00:46 [CROWD CHEERING]
00:49 [WHISTLE BLOWING]
00:50 [CROWD CHEERING]
00:53 - It's a tough game, but when it's over, it's over.
00:56 And yeah, they're definitely gentlemen.
00:58 - As rough as they are and as tough as they are,
00:59 they shake hands at the end of the game,
01:01 and a lot of them go out for beers afterwards together.
01:03 [CROWD CHEERING]
01:05 - I never met any of them that were loud mouth
01:07 or aggressive type people.
01:10 They were actually-- most of them were quite humble,
01:13 even in their success.
01:15 - There's something about South African men
01:17 that is both at once rugged and manly,
01:21 and very soulful and heartfelt.
01:23 And I think that that's what we see embodied
01:25 in Francois Pienaar.
01:26 - How are you?
01:27 - I'm very good.
01:28 Very nice to see you.
01:30 - Francois Pienaar, of course, he was very helpful,
01:32 very helpful to Matt Damon, because Matt
01:34 had to portray him.
01:35 And they hung out together, and I
01:38 got an idea of the way he talked and the way he sounded,
01:41 and his general philosophies on life.
01:44 - He's a great bloke.
01:46 I was so struck by his humility.
01:49 He's wanting to know things.
01:52 And just, there's no ears and graces.
01:54 What you see is what you get.
01:55 - There's definitely a similarity,
01:56 and especially in the energy, I think, of the two.
01:59 - But you know what I think it is for both of them,
02:01 is that they're both open-hearted,
02:05 and they both embrace what they do fully.
02:08 - They're both very athletic people.
02:10 They're both very outgoing and personable guys.
02:13 And so I can understand easily why they bonded so well.
02:18 - We ran together.
02:19 We did some sprints on the beach.
02:21 Then we went to the gym.
02:22 And then I realized he's worked incredibly
02:25 hard for this movie.
02:26 We had fun together.
02:31 I told him that I'm going to do a crazy thing.
02:33 I'm climbing up Kilimanjaro.
02:34 And then we're coming back, and we're doing a cycle race
02:37 around the mountain here for charity.
02:38 And he said, I'm in.
02:39 - Matt and his brother was doing it with Francois' team.
02:43 - Here you go.
02:43 - I don't know.
02:44 I don't know why we--
02:45 - What's the win?
02:46 Who did you bring the win?
02:47 - And Francois and his friend Dominic
02:48 were riding tandem bikes on this 105 kilometer ride
02:53 in the worst winds that have ever been seen
02:57 in Cape Town on an Argus day.
02:58 - It's just an amazing experience.
03:05 He didn't quit.
03:05 It was very tough because their bike broke
03:07 on the first big hill.
03:08 - Two kilometers later, and the chain broke again.
03:11 And we were like, OK, Matt, maybe we should just--
03:13 let's go back, sit in the sun.
03:15 And he said, are you kidding me?
03:17 If the chain breaks every two kilometers,
03:19 I'm going to finish this race.
03:21 And it pretty much broke about 10 or 11 more times.
03:24 - No, he stuck at it.
03:25 And it was tough.
03:26 We spent seven hours in the saddle,
03:28 and I was planning to do only four in the saddle.
03:33 - This was a man who didn't need to do this.
03:34 This was a day before his first day of shooting.
03:37 - Coming through, I believe, now,
03:39 across our system over here is Francois Pinot.
03:42 So they're ready to go to Pomona 95.
03:43 And Matt Damon, Francois Pinot, and Matt Damon
03:46 are coming through, y'all.
03:49 - Whenever we stopped and people wanted
03:51 an autograph or a photograph, he was more than willing to do it.
03:55 And I learned so much from that again.
03:58 We do that with somebody that is known all over the world.
04:01 And you get to know him better.
04:03 And you get to know that he does things because he really
04:06 wants to do things.
04:07 - Guys!
04:09 - As soon as we get back, 10 minutes after that,
04:11 the springboard--
04:12 - As I was introducing, I was like, oh, here's Matt.
04:14 And we usually just go.
04:16 And Matt kind of brought him in a circle.
04:18 And not so much a pep talk, but just, hey, guys,
04:20 I'm one of the guys.
04:21 Feel free to give me any tidbits.
04:24 Don't treat me like I'm a star or anything like that.
04:26 I'm one of you guys.
04:27 And I want to do this right.
04:28 And I want to do this film justice.
04:30 And he was very passionate about it.
04:31 And really, right there, you could see he is a leader.
04:34 He's a leader in his own way.
04:35 - Throws him down onto the ground.
04:36 And he looks at me and goes, not in the face.
04:38 I'm an actor.
04:39 [LAUGHTER]
04:41 - I never played rugby before.
04:43 But the training was very intense.
04:44 Did a lot of weightlifting.
04:46 So I put on a lot of weight.
04:47 And sprinting.
04:47 I did a lot of sprints, which I hadn't really done.
04:50 And then boxing.
04:52 - Well, you know, you could play rugby and get in shape.
04:54 But even the rugby players, they all
04:56 do exactly what Matt was doing.
04:58 They all press iron and really heavy.
05:00 And everybody works very hard to be
05:03 fit so you don't get injured.
05:05 - 32, take one.
05:06 - Because he took it very seriously.
05:11 Because he also knew, I think, coming in, out of shape,
05:15 there's so many injuries that could happen.
05:16 - Even the pro players that we had got hurt occasionally.
05:20 So we said we wouldn't want to lose our leading man.
05:25 - Not that we were taking it easy on him by any means.
05:27 He came in there and he was hitting guys
05:29 and having a good time.
05:30 Having Chester Williams there and Francois,
05:35 he would talk to all the time.
05:37 He became very knowledgeable about it.
05:39 And he even came up with his own kind of, well,
05:41 what if I came here and ask his own questions?
05:43 Can I do this?
05:43 Can I do that?
05:45 - All right.
05:45 - I mean, I'm not trying to add to the budget.
05:46 But--
05:47 - I was going to say.
05:48 - It doesn't better--
05:48 - Two days left of shooting, Murph.
05:50 - There goes my bonus.
05:51 - When I got to the training and I had to teach him how to run,
05:54 what, when, what is what, like when it's the rock,
05:57 when it's the scrum, when it's the line out,
05:59 he was quite good.
06:00 - Come from here.
06:00 - Yeah.
06:01 - Stand.
06:01 - If you come here, it's going to be difficult.
06:03 - Yeah, yeah.
06:04 - Like there.
06:04 - Yeah, I went over the wrong side.
06:05 - OK.
06:06 - The Springboks prided themselves on their fitness.
06:08 They were the fittest team in the tournament.
06:11 And they say that proudly.
06:13 - I was talking to Chester when I came to South Africa.
06:16 And he said, you're really fit.
06:18 He said, what have you been doing?
06:20 I said, well, I've been boxing and weightlifting
06:22 and sprinting.
06:23 And he looked at me for a while and he goes,
06:25 why don't you just play rugby?
06:26 [LAUGHS]
06:27 [MUSIC PLAYING]