Hollywood actor Matt Damon refused to visit psychics to research for his role in new film Hereafter because he thinks they are fake.
The 40-year-old actor, who plays a psychic who can see dead people in the film, refrained from going to any real life mystics for the fear of falling prey to such pretentious people, reported Contactmusic.
“Had I found a good one I would have. What I was worried about was that it was just going to take me down this rabbit hole of charlatans.
“I think a large part of that space is occupied by pretenders, which is not to say there aren’t people out there who are genuinely touched in some way. I just didn’t get a chance to meet any of them,” the Goodwill Hunting star said.
Damon said that he is open to the idea of near death experiences after interacting with actor Martin Sheen, who himself had a almost-fatal heart attack while on the sets of Apocalypse Now.
“But I did speak to Martin Sheen, who had a near-death experience on Apocalypse Now when he had a heart attack. He told me his incredible story one day when we were working on The Departed together.
“It’s a very well catalogued experience that a lot of people have had. One person I read was legally dead for 28 minutes, which I think is the record,” pondered Damon.
Damon has also admitted that frequent discussions on the topic has made him less afraid of death.
“It’s interesting. I assume most people are afraid of death, but the people who have had these experiences aren’t.
That seems to be one of the things they have in common – that they don’t have any fear of it any more,” added Damon.
