Matt Damon Says Donald Trump’s ‘Bulls**t’ Scene Was Cut From ‘Scent Of A Woman’

Matt Damon shed possible light on why U.S. President Donald Trump appears in so many movies.

“The Martian” star told The Hollywood Reporter Trump would exchange shoots at his many establishments for bit parts in big productions. “The deal was that if you wanted to shoot in one of his buildings, you had to write him in a part,” Damon said

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Damon, 46, suggested director Martin Brest had to write Trump into “Scent of a Woman” so they could film at a particular location. “You have to waste an hour of your day with a bulls**t shot,” the actor continued.

“Donald Trump walks in and Al Pacino’s like, ‘Hello, Mr. Trump!’ — you had to call him by name — and then he exits.” Damon said most filmmakers would simply cut the scene out of the finished product. “You waste a little time so that you can get the permit, and then you can cut the scene out. But I guess in ‘Home Alone 2’ they left it in.”

The U.S. President had many movie and TV cameos in the ’90s and 2000s.

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Back in April, “Scent of a Woman” star Chris O’Donnell discussed the “Scent of a Woman” encounter with Conan O’Brien. “We got new pages given to us one day when we were filming [at] the Plaza Hotel — which I guess Trump owned at the time — and it said we’re doing a scene with Donald Trump,” O’Donnell recalled.

“It explained to us in that in order for us to film at the Plaza we had a little walk-on part for Trump and [ex-wife] Marla [Maples].”