MATT DAMON - 'DOUGHY' MATT DAMON

'DOUGHY' MATT DAMON

Matt Damon said it was ''absolute heaven'' to be able to gorge on calorific, fattening foods for his latest movie 'The Informant!'.

Matt Damon said getting fat was "absolute heaven".

The Oscar-winning actor - who gorged on rich, fattening foods to bulk up for his latest movie 'The Informant!' - thoroughly enjoyed turning his body "doughy" and gaining 30lb to play bipolar whistleblower Mark Whitacre.

He told Entertainment Weekly: "I definitely got doughy. I started eating like crazy and drinking dark beer. Between meals on set, I'd eat a No. 1 Value Meal at McDonald's and then Doritos on top of it. It was absolute heaven!"

However, the 38-year-old star recently admitted he faced a difficult battle when it came to shifting those extra pounds and was forced to take up boxing to burn extra calories.

He said: "If you put it on, it's easier to get it back off. I'm just boxing. I figure if you get hit enough times, it will fall off! Now I'm the Sexiest Man Alive's chunky cousin!"

'The Informant' is due for release in September.