An 18-oz. steak swimming in Grand Marnier au poivre sauce. Sweet potato pancakes with crème fraîche. A filet mignon—and a pork tenderloin and a Caesar salad with shrimp. What on earth is Matt Damon—who has ordered the above meals recently at Miami restaurants—trying to do? Get fat? Well, yes, actually. In his newest film, The Informant, the actor plays a schlubby corporate executive—and, as these pictures show, "he always physically embodies his characters," says Shawn Stallworth, who trained him for The Bourne Supremacy. One hopes the 5'11", normally-155-lb. star is enjoying this transformation a bit more than, say, his 40-lb. weight loss for 1996's Courage Under Fire. "People look at the character and think he's haunted," Damon said at the time. "But all I was thinking was, 'I want a cheeseburger.'"
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