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" As our profile, written by Tom Junod, asserted first and foremost, Matt Damon is real: He can be continually surprising in his performances because he is so reliably unsurprising in his life \u2014 because he fulfills expectations instead of confounding them. Matt Damon is a movie star because he always delivers on being Matt Damon. He is a movie star not only because he makes us want to have a beer with him but also because he makes us think that, alone among movie stars, he might actually want to have a beer with us. And that is exactly why we are not surprised in the least that he has emerged, a week into The Great Batfleck Outrage of 2013, with the most reasonable, convincing take of all:  &amp;quot;I think it will be great. It will be terrific. I know there are a lot of people grousing on the internet. I just think it&amp;#039;s kind of funny. You know, he&amp;#039;s not playing King Lear. It&amp;#039;s Batman! Certainly within his skill set. If anybody saw Argo or The Town, and all the work he&amp;#039;s been doing lately, it&amp;#039;s way more nuanced and interesting and way more difficult than Batman! Batman just sits there with his cowl over his head and whispers in a kinda gruff voice at people. Bruce Wayne is the more challenging part of the role, and Ben will be great at that.&amp;quot; Of course, the next question on any good reporter&amp;#039;s mind is whether or not the real-life dynamic duo will team up again in the forthcoming flick, with Damon signing on as Robin, the Boy Wonder: &amp;quot;I am a little older than Ben. I never saw Robin as older than Batman. Somebody sent me a picture actually (of his face photoshopped on Robin&amp;#039;s body and Ben&amp;#039;s on Batman&amp;#039;s). It was really funny. But it&amp;#039;s safe to say I won&amp;#039;t be Robin.&amp;quot; Even here, in this awkward situation, Matt Damon delivers the perfect answer that makes us love him even more. &amp;quot;He might give the appearance of being a regular guy, but he hasn&amp;#039;t done what regular guys always do,&amp;quot; Junod wrote in last month&amp;#039;s profile, &amp;quot;he hasn&amp;#039;t fucked it up.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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