“If people see this movie and feel like there’s somehow whitewashing involved in a creature feature that we made up, I will listen to that with my whole heart,” he said at New York Comic Con.

This past summer, the trailer for The Great Wall was released, and almost instantly, it was met with backlash in the U.S. as another example of whitewashing.

The film is a historical fantasy set in China and directed by Zhang Yimou. Damon's character visits the country in search of a powerful weapon and somehow ends up fighting to keep monsters on the other side of The Great Wall at bay.

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Despite the stateside controversy, many people in China are looking forward to the film’s release.

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On Saturday, during a press conference at New York Comic-Con, Damon said the initial reaction to the film “was a fucking bummer.”

On Saturday, during a press conference at New York Comic-Con, Damon said the initial reaction to the film "was a fucking bummer."

“I mean to me, whitewashing… I think of Chuck Connors when he played Geronimo, ya know?” he said.

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Damon said that his co-star Pedro Pascal, who was also at the press conference, called him amid the backlash and jokingly said, “Yeah, we are guilty of whitewashing — we all know that only the Chinese defended The Wall against the monster when they attacked.”

Damon said that his co-star Pedro Pascal, who was also at the press conference, called him amid the backlash and jokingly said, "Yeah, we are guilty of whitewashing — we all know that only the Chinese defended The Wall against the monster when they attacked."