Matt Damon: 'I have no idea what Amanda Knox’s father looks like or does for a living'

The American actor says the infamous Italian case was just a jumping-off point for the plot of his new film, Stillwater 

Matt Damon in Stillwater. 

When British student Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, it shook the world. Her roommate, American Amanda Knox, and Knox’s then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, were initially found guilty of the crime; they were eventually acquitted after a series of court decisions.

It is Knox’s story that director Tom McCarthy has said served as the initial inspiration for his new crime thriller Stillwater, which sees Matt Damon play an Oklahoma oil rig worker called Bill, who flies to France to help his estranged daughter, Allison (Abigail Breslin).