The flop 2002 movie Matt Damon will always regret turning down: “I was really upset”Most actors would breathe a sigh of relief at turning down a movie that went on to flop at the box office and receive a wildly unenthusiastic reaction, but not Matt Damon, who’s regretted it for over 20 years. Damon had his reasons for turning down Brokeback Mountain, too, explaining that because he’d just made The Talented Mr Ripley, a gay movie, and All the Pretty Horses, a cowboy movie, he didn’t feel like combining the two and making a gay cowboy movie was the right career move at the time. As the celebrated auteur’s first feature since 1998’s Elizabeth, it was a hot ticket, and Damon was offered top billing in the picture. I think I was signed up for a Bourne movie. The Bourne Identity, meanwhile, had the opposite effect that Damon thought it would and breathed new life into his career.