Matt Damon suffered depression making The Great Wall?

Sometimes an actor just knows that their next movie is a stinker. Worse, they know it when they’re in production but are contractually obligated to finish the job. This is just what happened to Matt Damon while making a recent big-budget movie. While Damon didn’t reveal the title, it sounds like he’s talking about The Great Wall, a critical and domestic dud that stands as one of the worst-reviewed movies of his entire career.

Speaking with Jake Hamilton on Jake’s Takes (via Variety), Matt Damon revealed — as much as he would, anyway — that he had the unfortunate and depressing feeling of being locked into a movie he had no choice but to see through to fruition. “Without naming any particular movies…sometimes you find yourself in a movie that you know, perhaps, might not be what you had hoped it would be, and you’re still making it…And I remember halfway through production and you’ve still got months to go and you’ve taken your family somewhere, you know, and you’ve inconvenienced them, and I remember my wife pulling me up because I fell into a depression about like, what have I done?”

While Damon wouldn’t mention the specific movie he’s referring to, we all know it was Stuck On You! Actually, the movie in question was more than likely The Great Wall, Zhang Yimou’s movie that found Matt Damon as an Irish mercenary facing off against monsters and playing with magnets in the 11th century for some reason.

Building on the support his family gave him while filming the movie that may (or may not) be The Great Wall, Matt Damon added, “I do pride myself, in a large part because of her, at being a professional actor and what being a professional actor means is you go and you do the 15-hour day and give it absolutely everything, even in what you know is going to be a losing effort. And if you can do that with the best possible attitude, then you’re a pro, and she really helped me with that.” But not everyone in the Damon clan has rallied around the star, as his daughter has made it a point to call it simply The Wall, saying, “There’s nothing great about it.”

What did you think of Matt Damon in The Great Wall? Does the movie get a bad wrap or is it as bad as Damon – and most of the rest of us – say? Give us your take below.