By India McCarty
Did you know Matt Damon has a major love for this children’s movie mouse?
“I’m still kind of unpacking it, but it did have a profound effect on me,” he said in a recent interview when asked about STUART LITTLE, the movie about a talking mouse and his adventures.
Damon added, “I really enjoyed — like, deeply enjoyed every minute of it.”
He then shared some “fan art” of Stuart Little, joking, “Almost nobody can [draw like this]. A very, very tiny percentage of human beings can even do it.”
While Damon’s professed love for STUART LITTLE seems to be a joke bit for an interview, plenty of others love the movie.
The 1999 movie, based on the popular book by E.B. White, stars Michael J. Fox as the voice of the titular mouse, joined by Gena Davis, Hugh Laurie and Jonathan Lipnicki.
STUART LITTLE made headlines in 2014 when a long-missing work of art was spotted in the background of a scene from the movie. Art historian Gergely Barki recognized the Robert Bereny painting “Sleeping Lady with Black Vase” while watching the movie with his daughter in 2009. The painting had been missing since the 1920s.
“I went to the television and tried to clean the windscreen. Is it real?” he told ABC News.
The painting, bought by an assistant set designer for $500, was eventually sold to a private collector.
The talking mouse also recently became a topic of conversation online as many discovered that, per White’s book, published in 1945, Stuart Little is not actually a mouse — he’s a human boy.
“I’ve just now learned that in the Stuart Little book, Stuart is not actually a mouse but a human boy who looks like a mouse, and I don’t know how to process this,” movie critic Chris Evangelista posted on X, along with a screenshot of the book’s text.
A passage from the book reads, “When Mrs. Frederick C. Little’s second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse…He was only about two inches high; and he had a mouse’s sharp nose, a mouse’s tail, a mouse’s whiskers, and the pleasant, shy manner of a mouse.”
In later editions of the book, White changed Stuart’s origin story to adoption, which is the story that is told in STUART LITTLE as well.
With all these behind-the-scenes stories, it’s no wonder Damon loves the movie so much!
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