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The Departed is one of the most violent winners for Best Picture at the Academy Awards of all time. The film is super popular, so many people know the film front to back. But there is still some behind the scenes content that fans are just learning about now, like how Matt Damon recently revealed the wild
Departed rewrites Jack Nicholson pitched on set.
Some context: In one scene in the film, Jack Nicholsonâs character Frank Costello is talking to a young Colin Sullivan, played by Matt Damon. Well, in the script, the flashback scene simply read: âCostello executes man kneeling in the marsh.â But Jack Nicholson thought the scene could use some punching up, so instead of it being a man shot in the back of the head, he insisted that it should be a woman instead. On the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Matt Damon had this to say on Jack Nicholsonâs new rewrites: