Matt Damon continues to extend himself as an actor. Now that he’s garnered a clutch of rave reviews for his third outing as CIA badass Jason Bourne, Damon seems to feel he’s ready to tackle the demanding role of an aardvark on the long-running PBS series Arthur the Aardvark.
Personally, I question the wisdom of this decision. Damon has played a range of characters, but the role of a termite-eating African mammal would seem to lie beyond his scope. Of course, Arthur himself is a pretty unpersuasive aardvark, a fact I recognized as a child. I don’t know what the hell sort of mammal Arthur actually is, but everyone knows that an aardvark is a creature with a long, fleshy snout, beady little eyes, and a long, sticky tongue. It’s the role Paris Hilton was born to play. Arthur, not so much.
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Too bad Jon Stuart already did Elmopalooza. I would bet that Matt Damon could totally kick ass in that film.
Matt Damon isn’t allowed to date until he’s sixteen, right?
I think Matt Damon is perfect. There is a certain pathos to Arnold. He’s got that Woody Allen demeanor, and a wicked case of preteen angst. Arnold needs an actor with cerebral integrity. BTW, did they ask the Radcliffe kid?
I’m couple of years younger than Damon, but I know that when I was living in the Boston area in my youth, Marc Brown (Arthur’s creator) would visit local schools, mine was one of them. I can only wonder if Damon got the Aardvark love back in the day before Arthur got all cutesified (originally Artie actually looked like an aardvark) and televised.