Matt Damon: Netflix Wants the Plot Explained 3 or 4 Times in Movies for Viewers Watching While Scrolling on Their Phones

Actor Matt Damon says Netflix wants the plot explained “three or four times” in movies, because viewers are watching while scrolling on their phones.

Damon, who appeared on Friday’s episode of the Joe Rogan Experience alongside actor Ben Affleck to promote their new Netflix film, The Rip, said viewers give “a very different level of attention” to a movie they are watching at home versus in a theater.

The Good Will Hunting star added that this change is even “starting to have an effect on how you make movies,” noting that Netflix now wants to push action set pieces toward the front of the runtime.

“The standard way to make an action movie that we learned was, you usually have three set pieces. One in the