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HOLLYWOOD superstar Matt Damon has to play rugby well enough to pass as former Springbok captain Francois Pienaar on screen - and it's all up to one of Pienaar's World Cup-winning team-mates. Chester Williams, who played wing in the team - then captained by Pienaar - which won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, has to get Damon to master the sport before shooting on the film, The Human Factor, starts next week. The film, directed by Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood, concerns the Springboks' historic win. It also stars actor Morgan Freeman as former President Nelson Mandela. Although he would not reveal much, Williams did say that training Damon has "been easy". "I have been very fortunate to be training such a professional person in the game such as Matt Damon. He has a yearning to learn how to play, and has a clear understanding of the importance of the game as well," he said. Williams has had just under a month to train the Bourne Identity star at the Gardens R...

OMG, why is it I have not bumped into this busy soul Matt Damon anywhere I go? Infact he has even been to the border of Zim and back, then he went to a cricket match and is even going to be a part of the Cape Argus cycling tour in Cape Town this coming Sunday, and I have not even once bumped into him. I hear that on Tuesday, the  Bourne Ultimatum  star took time off from filming of the movie they are shooting in SouthAfrica to visit with Zimbabwean refugees in the South African border town of Musina, part of a humanitarian mission on behalf of  Not on Our Watch , the nonprofit advocacy group he started along with  George Clooney ,  Brad Pitt  and  Don Cheadle . Damon is in the country shooting  Untitled Mandela Project , being directed by Million Dollar Baby director  Clint Eastwood 's upcoming film about  Nelson Mandela's impact of the 1995 Rugby World Cup . The film will be shot entirely on location in and around the cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, utiliz...