Psychic people are charlatans,feels Damon

Jan 24, 2011 |

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Actor Matt Damon says he refused to visit psychics to research for his role in his latest film Hereafter because he thinks they’re fake. The 40-year-old actor, who plays a psychic in Hereafter who can see dead people confesses he didn’t even visit any real-life mystics to research his role. “Had I found a good one I would have. What I was worried about was that it was just going to take me down this rabbit hole of charlatans. I think a large part of that space is occupied by pretenders, which is not to say there aren’t people out there who are genuinely touched in some way. I just didn’t get a chance to meet any of them,” contactmusic.com quoted him as saying.
However, Damon is open-minded to the idea of near-death experiences, after actor Martin Sheen told him about his own almost-fatal heart attack when he was working on the set of Apocalypse Now. “But I did speak to Martin Sheen, who had a near-death experience on Apocalypse Now when he had a heart attack. He told me his incredible story one day when we were working on The Departed together. It’s a very well catalogued experience that a lot of people have had. One person I read was legally dead for 28 minutes, which I think is the record,” he added.
Damon also admitted his discussions have made him less afraid of death. “It’s interesting. I assume most people are afraid of death, but the people who have had these experiences aren’t. That seems to be one of the things they have in common, that they don’t have any fear of it any more,” he added.

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