Movies that want to shoot inside one of Donald Trump's buildings must feature him in a shot, Matt Damon says.

The actor explained the truly obnoxious rule in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter. "You have to waste an hour of your day with a bullshit shot," he said, referring to an instance of that occurring on the set of director Martin Brest's Oscar-winning Scent of a Woman.

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"Donald Trump walks in and Al Pacino’s like, “Hello, Mr. Trump!”—you had to call him by name—and then he exits."

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Fortunately, most of these Trump scenes apparently end up on the cutting room floor—although a few, like Trump's cameo in Home Alone 2, inexplicably remained in the final cut. (Why, Chris Columbus? We trusted you with Harry Potter.)

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