Matt Damon in no hurry to follow movie characters into space.

Matt Damon has said he is in no hurry to travel into space, despite portraying astronauts in two movies in quick succession.

The Hollywood star played an astronaut left on an ice planet in Interstellar last year and will next be seen as a botanist left for dead on Mars in director Ridley Scott's new film The Martian.

Damon, 44, plays Mark Watney, an astronaut abandoned on the planet after his crewmates think he has been killed in an accident.

The film, an adaptation of the hit novel of the same name, follows his battle for survival and the attempts to bring him home.

However, Damon says all the time spent in a spacesuit has not given him any desire to venture into the skies.


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