All the Pretty Horses

…Damon and Penélope Cruz in All the Pretty Horses (2000), a film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 1992 novel, and wrote, directed, and starred in Daddy and Them (2001), a comedy about a dysfunctional southern family.

…Bob Thornton to direct a movie version. Matt Damon played the part of John Grady Cole, Henry Thomas that of Lacey Rawlins, and Penélope Cruz that of Alejandra Villareal. When Thornton delivered a film that ran nearly three hours long, the studio edited it down to less than two hours.…

…starred alongside Matt Damon in All the Pretty Horses (2000), a film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name. She starred opposite Johnny Depp in Blow (2001), a film based on the life of George Jung, the most prolific cocaine dealer in the United States during the 1970s.…

…of the actor’s character in All the Pretty Horses (2000)—he was given the nickname “Meth Damon.” Another notable credit from the early 2010s was Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (2012), an acclaimed drama centering on a charismatic self-made guru (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman).