Matt Damon has fear of heights
Matt Damon discovered he has a fear of heights during a romantic Middle Eastern date with his wife.
The action man had no qualms about plans to watch a sunset from the top of the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai - but he started sweating as he reached the high-rise's summit.
He tells Playboy magazine, "When I was doing Syriana, they arranged
for my wife, Lucy, and me to go up to watch the sunset over the
Arabian Peninsula from the top of that seven-star Dubai hotel
that's shaped like a sail.
"So we go to the very top - 60 storeys or something - we're given
champagne, and we go, 'Oh my God, this is great'. But as I started
to walk towards the edge, my legs locked up. I was absolutely
frozen. I completely jumped my neocortex and went straight to this
primal, full lizard-brain fear state... I was about to collapse
from fear. She (wife) thought it was hysterical."
And now just the thought of fellow action man Tom Cruise leaping
from window to window on Dubai's tallest building in the world, the
Burj Khalifa, in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, gives Damon
the sweats.
He adds, "Seeing Tom running down the side of that building was the
most incredible thing. I went, 'OK, you win. You are the greatest
of all time.'
"He didn't just appear to do it for the movie; he actually did
that. I, literally, could never do that."