Matt Damon

And I knew a lot of people like that, you know, from boxing gyms and stuff.

I knew a guy who was a hit man for Whitey Bulger.

I knew a guy who was a friend of a brother of mine who went to jail for that, for murder, for killing people.

What town did you grow up in?

I lived in Newton.

You did?

Yeah.

I lived in Jamaica Plain for a little while.

I lived in Newton.

But I spent a lot of time in Boston because I was fighting.

I was mostly training.

And so I was around a lot of these very shady characters who were in the fighting world.

And a lot of them had backgrounds in crime.

One of the guys that I trained with, he went to jail for a little while and then he got arrested because a guy got killed and they broke every bone in his body with a hammer and kept injecting it with cocaine to keep him awake while they were doing it.

And then they cut his hands off and cut his head off.

And this guy that I used to train with got arrested for that.

Jesus.

Yeah, he didn't wind up going to jail for that.

He's dead now, but he was somehow or another at least peripherally involved.

But we have caricatures in our head of what these tough people are like.