Half-Assed Internet Research
Damon's weight loss, piano, running and body makeup; Damon singing My Funny Valentine; Jude Law's saxophone, weight gain and broken rib; The Room joke; Hadrian bust; location shooting in sequence
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- Damon allegedly lost 30 pounds, learned piano, ran six miles a day and was covered in body makeup to look pasty and pale, prompting a joke about a pale co-host wearing an undercoat.
- The research says Damon actually sang My Funny Valentine and Jude Law learned the saxophone, leading to a question about Chet Baker.
- The research says Jude Law gained weight to seem more substantial and broke a rib falling backward while filming the boat murder.
- A joke item says a viewer named Tommy was so moved he vowed to make an equally compelling film and four years later made The Room; the hosts riff on the two being similar.
- Tom kills Freddie with a bust of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who the research says had a gay lover who was killed, called a little on the nose.
- A classics major explains that Hadrian built a long wall, partly in the UK, had a gay lover, and resembles the bust in the movie.
- The research says the production shot in seaside towns, Rome, Sicily and Naples, sometimes hundreds of miles apart, and reportedly shot in sequence; a joke says Clint Eastwood would have banged out all the Sicily scenes in a day.